Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being weighed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being weighed.
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- adjective
heavy enough to beweighed
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Examples
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We had caught 2 nice makos early that morning but neither were weighable fish, then the blue sharks moved in, it was one after another for hours.
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We had caught 2 nice makos early that morning but neither were weighable fish, then the blue sharks moved in, it was one after another for hours.
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Science studies phenomena in the material world, the realm of the measurable and weighable, while spirituality and true religion draw their inspiration from experiential knowledge of the aspect of the world that Jungians refer to as "imaginal," to distinguish it from imaginary products of individual fantasy or psychopathology.
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D.: Science and Spirituality: Observations from Modern Consciousness Research Stanislav Grof 2010
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This is a very sad time for all Christians, because we have suffered a loss that is not weighable.
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Good clay was valuable, and a careful accounting was made of every weighable scrap of it.
Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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"Not a hand, my own or anybody else's, weighty or weighable, shall touch me," said Sancho.
Don Quixote 2002
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Wisdom is not weighable, nor is it easily stained and seen under a microscope.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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Wisdom is not weighable, nor is it easily stained and seen under a microscope.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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Measurable by him who hath time, weighable by a good weigher, attainable by strong pinions, divinable by divine nut – crackers: thus did my dream find the world: —
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This shows to what extent even the scientifically untrained consciousness in our time turns instinctively to the tangible or weighable side of nature, so that some effort is required to confess simply to what the eye and the other senses perceive.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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