Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of combining or of being combined; suitable for combining.

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

  • adjective rare Capable of combining; consistent with.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Capable of combining.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective able to or tending to combine

Etymologies

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combine +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Speaking at a Cereals conference, the union's combinable crops Chairman Ian Backhouse said buyers may look toward the Black Sea now that Russia and Ukraine have lifted restrictions on exports.

    England Likely to Produce Less Wheat Next Season Caroline Henshaw 2011

  • Speaking at a Cereals conference, the union's combinable crops Chairman Ian Backhouse said buyers may look toward the Black Sea now that Russia and Ukraine have lifted restrictions on exports.

    England Likely to Produce Less Wheat Next Season Caroline Henshaw 2011

  • All parties agree, though, that there has been no discovery of a humanlike language—a corpus of infinitely combinable words that often carry many definitions, with rules for combining words into meaningful sentences—in animals.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Apparently this Sebastian's was in a good location, but doing horribly because the owner a really retarded-looking, stubborn guy that mistreated, for certain, his staff was fixated on this crazy menu concept of his of 20 combinable flavors.

    Food and Drink 2009

  • Apparently this Sebastian's was in a good location, but doing horribly because the owner a really retarded-looking, stubborn guy that mistreated, for certain, his staff was fixated on this crazy menu concept of his of 20 combinable flavors.

    Teaching 2009

  • This is as bogus as narrowing the definition of SF to any one of the subsets of (combinable) modes at play in the field.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • This is as bogus as narrowing the definition of SF to any one of the subsets of (combinable) modes at play in the field.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • “If an intangible method or process, for instance, qualifies as a ‘patented invention’ under § 271(f) (a question as to which we express no opinion), the combinable components of that invention might be intangible as well.”

    Directing Method Step to Be Performed Outside U.S. Negates Joint Infringement Peter Zura 2009

  • All parties agree, though, that there has been no discovery of a humanlike language—a corpus of infinitely combinable words that often carry many definitions, with rules for combining words into meaningful sentences—in animals.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • “If an intangible method or process, for instance, qualifies as a ‘patented invention’ under § 271(f) (a question as to which we express no opinion), the combinable components of that invention might be intangible as well.”

    Archive 2009-03-01 Peter Zura 2009

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