describable
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- adjective
- /dɪˈskraɪbəbl/
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describible
- The rules of the game are describable, making it easy for new players to understand.
There is nothing that we know in nature that is not describable by an action principle.
- There is nothing that we know in nature that is not describable by an action principle.
- I think it's because action by the Federal Reserve is a discreet and easily describable phenomenon.
- And the other kind of pain is really more describable as a kind of a discomfort, but it's not danger.
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Danish culture is an essentially undifferentiated quantity, generically describable as "olden days."
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It's understandable and describable in universal terms.
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There is nothing that we know in nature that is not describable by an action principle.
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Thus, the materials and processes of nature seem to be describable by general laws.
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It's not mathematical, but it is describable, right?
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I think it's because action by the Federal Reserve is a discreet and easily describable phenomenon.
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Fitzpatrick (2000) defines value as the degree to which the program's impact on the school goals is positive, describable, and visible.
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The center is in a mathematically describable but physically inaccessible dimension, and so too is the expansion.
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I perceive a series of describable instants, like gorgeous scales on a dragon.
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A full range of world models can be assessed accurately through the intermediary domain of the reference world, which can insulate the fictional world from reality in various describable ways through the applicable text model.
Academic text (1995)
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Etymology
The word describable comes from the root scribe, which means 'to write' and is found in words like scribble and script, and the ending -able means 'can be'. So something describable is something you can 'write down' or explain in words.