usable

«usable» in Mova's school dictionary: able to be used, or in a good enough state to be used — 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 (usable; also spelled useable)

meaning for a pupil

Usable means able to be used, or in a good enough state to be used. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used about tools, rooms, space, objects and data: «still usable», «usable space», «usable water». In maths problems it tells you how much can actually be used.

examples

• The old bike is rusty but still usable. tree →
• Only half of the paper was usable after the spill. tree →
• We cleared the shed to make it usable again. tree →
• The garden has 20 square metres of usable space. tree →
• Is this pencil usable, or is it too short? tree →
• After the storm, the road was not usable for cars. tree →

note

«Usable» is the usual spelling; «useable» is also seen. Not the same as «useful»: something can be usable but not useful for your task. In maths, «usable» parts are often total minus broken parts: 30 tiles, 4 cracked, 26 usable.

In the corpora

• It is a great story, but DNA breaks down over time, and after 66 million years no usable dinosaur DNA is left.

Trees and pragmatics

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