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Definition: Useable |
UseableAdjective1. 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". 2. Able to be put to use; "usable byproducts". 3. Convenient for use or disposal; "the house is available after July 1"; "2000 square feet of usable office space". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "useable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonyms: UseableSynonyms: available (adj), functional (adj), in working order(p) (adj), operable (adj), operational (adj), usable (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Useable |
| Specialty definitions using "useable": amateur packet radio ♦ Management Information System ♦ Photovoltaic and solar thermal energy, PLUSS ♦ STIRLING ENGINE. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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![]() | Erecting EPI (Electronic Position Indicator) antenna EPI was a medium frequency system that was useable out to 200 miles Invented within the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Victory food from American waters. Striking good fishing grounds, fishermen load their boat with rosefish. Only a thin slice from each side of the rosefish is useable as food. Fish meal and fish oil are made from the remaining parts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Books and Stuff 4" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "I would think this would be useable for school or teacher website or project. 2003-11-25." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Political Economy | REPUBLIC OF KOREA | Korea's useable foreign currency reserves grew to over $100 billion by September 2001, which significantly reduced Korea's vulnerability to a repeat of the 1997-98 financial crisis, when Korea nearly exhausted its foreign exchange reserves. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Useable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Useable" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "useable": classical maximum useable frequency. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "useable": re-useable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
useable information technology | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "useable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 能用 (usable). (various references) | |
Danish | klassisk højeste brugbare frekvens (classical maximum useable frequency, classical MUF, junction frequency, the frequency at which the high-and low-angle rays merge into a single ray), brugbart skærmområde (useable screen area). (various references) | |
Dutch | nuttig schermoppervlak (useable screen area), junctiefrequentie (classical maximum usable frequency, classical maximum useable frequency, classical MUF, junction frequency, the frequency at which the high-and low-angle rays merge into a single ray), bruikbaar schermoppervlak (useable screen area). (various references) | |
Finnish | klassinen suurin käyttökelpoinen taajuus (classical maximum useable frequency, classical MUF, junction frequency, the frequency at which the high-and low-angle rays merge into a single ray), klassinen MUF (classical maximum useable frequency, classical MUF, junction frequency, the frequency at which the high-and low-angle rays merge into a single ray), käyttökelpoinen kuva-alue (useable screen area). (various references) | |
French | zone d'affichage (useable screen area), MUF classique (classical maximum usable frequency, classical maximum useable frequency), largeur utile du produit (useable width of the product), JF (classical maximum usable frequency, classical maximum useable frequency), fréquence de jonction (classical maximum usable frequency, classical maximum useable frequency). (various references) | |
German | gebräuchlich (common, conventional, current, customary, standard, usual). (various references) | |
Greek | JF (classical maximum useable frequency, classical MUF, junction frequency), κλασική MUF (classical maximum useable frequency, classical MUF, junction frequency, the frequency at which the high-and low-angle rays merge into a single ray), κλασική μέγιστη χρησιμοποιήσιμη συχνότητα (classical maximum useable frequency, classical MUF, junction frequency, the frequency at which the high-and low-angle rays merge into a single ray), ωφέλιμη περιοχή οθόνης (useable screen area). (various references) | |
Italian | area utile dello schermo (useable screen area). (various references) | |
Korean | 쓸모 있는 (instrumental, usable). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eableusay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | máxima frequência utilizável (classical maximum useable frequency, classical MUF, junction frequency, the frequency at which the high-and low-angle rays merge into a single ray), área do écran utilizável (useable screen area). (various references) | |
Russian | пригодный (available, equal, serviceable, suitable, usable, useful). (various references) | |
Spanish | zona utilizable de pantalla (useable screen area), MUF clásica (classical maximum usable frequency, classical maximum useable frequency, classical MUF, junction frequency, the frequency at which the high-and low-angle rays merge into a single ray). (various references) | |
Swedish | användbart. (various references) | |
Turkish | kullanılabilir (employable, usable, utilizable), kullanılır (consumable, usable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Useable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eusebe, fuseable, Husebye, museale, Nuseibeh, Ousedale, sueable, useabl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: abeles, suable, usable. | |
-2 letters: abele, ables, abuse, bales, beaus, blase, blues, easel, lease, lubes, sable. | |
-3 letters: able, albs, alee, ales, bale, bals, base, beau, bees, bels, blae, blue, ease, eels, else, labs, lase, leas, lees, lube, lues, sabe, sale, saul, seal, seel, slab, slub, slue, suba. | |
-4 letters: abs, alb, ale, als, bal, bas, bee. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: reusable, sublease. | |
+2 letters: blueheads, bluejeans, educables, excusable, guessable, rescuable, subleased, subleases, superable. | |
+3 letters: beleaguers, bluebeards, censurable, lebensraum, measurable, mensurable, presumable, squeezable, sufferable, unfeasible, unsellable, untestable, usableness. | |
+4 letters: balefulness, barrelhouse, beauteously, bequeathals, blanquettes, bluegrasses, bluejackets, bubbleheads, buffleheads, curableness, doublespeak, durableness, elucubrates, equableness, executables, exhaustible, inexcusable, insuperable, irrecusable, lebensraums, nonreusable, persuadable, persuasible, pleasurable, returnables, subliterate, treasurable, tunableness, unassembled, undesirable, unescapable, unguessable, unspeakable. | |
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