Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being lifted.

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  • adjective Such as can be lifted.

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  • adjective Capable of being lifted.

Etymologies

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lift +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Wayward Elf is an American expat in Switzerland who, to the horror of everyone she meets, shipped over a spinning wheel and ten (small and liftable) boxes of books.

    Blog roll update: supplemental Peggy 2008

  • Wayward Elf is an American expat in Switzerland who, to the horror of everyone she meets, shipped over a spinning wheel and ten (small and liftable) boxes of books.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Peggy 2008

  • We were supposed to divide the boxes down into liftable sized packages, keep our backs straight, bend at the knees to pick them up and then, holding them at waist level and close to the body, walk them around to the correct door.

    42 entries from November 2007 2007

  • We were supposed to divide the boxes down into liftable sized packages, keep our backs straight, bend at the knees to pick them up and then, holding them at waist level and close to the body, walk them around to the correct door.

    Mandatory Training Day 2007

  • We were supposed to divide the boxes down into liftable sized packages, keep our backs straight, bend at the knees to pick them up and then, holding them at waist level and close to the body, walk them around to the correct door.

    Mandatory Training Day 2007

  • I remember it being in Java, and should be liftable for your purposes, if you can figure out how to find it.

    Waldo Jaquith - Ten most linked political bloggers. 2007

  • Do give the trough a try, you could start with a small one that is liftable by one person instead of the giant one I started with!

    Troughs-Recycled « Fairegarden 2008

  • Tight What a flyer must be in order to remain tossable and liftable.

    Cheer! Kate Torgovnick 2008

  • Tight What a flyer must be in order to remain tossable and liftable.

    Cheer! Kate Torgovnick 2008

  • The 140 photo-graphs (many of them with liftable shades for protection from the light) from the collection of Dietmar Siegert constitute yet another one of those exhibitions of small, nearly uniform darkish rectangles in metronomic friezes.

    Summer Art Gets Serious 2007

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