habitable

«habitable» in Mova's school dictionary: Good enough for people or animals to live in, as in «a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (habitable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Good enough for people or animals to live in, as in «a habitable house». tree →

2) (science) Able to support life, as in «a habitable planet» or «the habitable zone». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about space, the «habitable zone» (Goldilocks zone) is the area around a star where a planet is not too hot or too cold for liquid water. In geography, some places like deserts and ice caps are hardly habitable. In everyday life, a house must be habitable (safe, with water and heating) before a family moves in.

examples

• Earth is the only habitable planet we know of. tree →
• The old cottage is not habitable until the roof is fixed. tree →
• Scientists look for planets in the habitable zone. tree →
• Antarctica is not very habitable for people. tree →
• After the flood, the houses were not habitable. tree →
• Mars might once have been habitable for tiny microbes. tree →

note

Opposite: «uninhabitable». Trap: «inhabitable» also means «able to be lived in» — it does NOT mean «not habitable». Related: «habitat», «inhabit».

In the corpora

• Playing in His habitable earth, and my delights are with the sons of men.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «habitable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.