Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being liquefied, melted, or changed to a liquid state.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.

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  • adjective Able to be liquefied.

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  • adjective capable of being liquefied

Etymologies

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liquefy +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The instructions as to sterilisation are rarely given in full; the routine method of exposure in the steam steriliser at 100° C. (without pressure) for twenty minutes on each of three successive days for all fluid media, and thirty minutes on each of three successive days for all liquefiable or solid media must be carried out; and only when these general rules are to be departed from are further details given.

    The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

  • Liquids and readily liquefiable foods are to be given the non-gastrostomized patient, solids being added when demonstrated that no stagnation above the stricture occurs.

    Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

  • Chronic esophagitis is to be controlled by esophageal lavage, the regulation of the diet to liquefiable foods and the administration of bismuth subnitrate.

    Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

  • On the other hand, the tiny worms are not able -- or at least do not know how -- to dig through the integument with their pair of guttural harpoons, to rend it and reach the liquefiable flesh.

    The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • According to Hover, Port-Au-Prince's bay was originally much deeper and was probably filled in over time "with a very soft and liquefiable soil" that contributed to the damage.

    Stories from The Sun Usha Rao 2010

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  • According to Hover, the clinic's soccer field has been converted into a refugee camp and the building itself, which was built on liquefiable soil in the former Port-au-Prince bay, has rotated almost a foot.

    Stories from The Sun 2010

  • The liquefiable fractions of natural gas are an important factor, in North America (70.2 bcm) and OPEC countries (82.8 bcm) in particular, where the equivalent of 9% of their gross production was absorbed by the processing plants.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • To hold the ABtek modules in place they are both stapled together among themselves and held by special scaffolding to keep the walls straight and leveled until the inside of the modules is filled with concrete or any other liquefiable composite material.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows zapping57 2009

  • ‘solidified’ from the dry the ‘liquefiable’ from the moist.

    On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

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