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usable English

Meaning usable meaning

What does usable mean?
Definitions in simple English

usable

If something is usable, then it can be used.

usable

(= useable) capable of being put to use usable byproducts (= functional, useable, operational) fit or ready for use or service the toaster was still functional even after being dropped the lawnmower is a bit rusty but still usable an operational aircraft the dishwasher is now in working order (= available, useable) convenient for use or disposal the house is available after July 1 2000 square feet of usable office space

Synonyms usable synonyms

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Examples usable examples

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Simple sentences

Is that machine still usable?
From the research results published to date, it can be concluded that the new method will soon be usable in practice.
His idea wasn't usable.

Movie subtitles

It's still there, and the latest aerial reconnaissance tells us it's still usable.
This seems usable, right?
It's still usable.
One escape hatch in commission, and that's only usable every 90 minutes.
Still usable. Amazing.
To capture stellar gases and convert them into usable fuel. Yes.
The transporter isn't usable.
No usable prints, no forceable entry, nothing missing.
Take an inventory of the shuttle. See if there's anything usable.
The visor scans the spectrum from one hertz to 100,000 terahertz, converts it to usable frequencies and transmits that to my brain.
To capture stellar gases and convert them into usable fuel.
Dad says there are 24 usable hours in every day.
At least two of those designs must be usable.
Usable parts are rare outside the factory.
Our equipment is still usable.
Do you know what it would mean to the rest of the world if we could supply them with usable ocean water?
There's one usable bedroom.
Not usable.
No usable prints.
We've been here for six hours and I don't have one frame of usable film.
See if there's anything usable.
I thought what I sold them was not usable.
That's why we couldn't find one single usable print in his apartment.
Earthgov's been expanding their underground facilities blasting to open up more usable areas.
But there is nothing usable on Babylon 5.
Three or four of them might not be usable due to the blood from my paper cuts.
See if there's anything left in there that's usable.
Well, the VISOR scans the electromagnetic spectrum from one hertz to 100,000 terahertz converts it all to usable frequencies and then transmits that information directly to my brain.
That's why we couldn't find one usable print in his apartment.
You've lived a first-rate life, and I find it eminently usable.
Even if this tape were usable in court, it's hardly definitive.
We won't be able to lift usable prints.
All totally usable.
They can barely lift a usable print.

News and current affairs

Once there, traditional monetary policy becomes impotent, as the interest-rate tool is no longer usable.
The more money, the greater the need to show usable results.
The range of usable territory - the spectrum - is administered by governments as though it were real estate, and is broken up according to wavelength, with an amount apportioned for cell phones, other bits for military pilots, and so on.
It also requires a lot of data processing to make the records usable.
But this mechanism lacks the common political will needed to activate it; the less it is used, the less usable it will become.
Nature's water-replenishment capacity is fixed, limiting the world's usable freshwater resources to about 200,000 cubic kilometers.
We need to understand better how our economies will evolve in the coming decades, and to redesign our educational systems to produce workers with usable skills.
So, while we understand very well what may have produced the financial crisis, we find ourselves helpless to draw usable lessons from it.
Russia's armed forces are able to project little in the way of usable military might.

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