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playable, a.|ˈpleɪəb(ə)l|
[f. play v. + -able.]
†1. Given to play, playful, sportive. Obs.
1483Cath. Angl. 282/2 Playabylle, ludibundus, ludicris, ludicer, ludibilis.
2. Capable of being played: in various senses.
1860Reade 8th Commandm. 30 There were passages in ‘Le Château Grantier’ not playable in England. 1873Bennett & Cavendish Billiards 480 Any ball or balls behind the baulk-line,..are not playable if the striker be in baulk. 1875M. Pattison Casaubon 154 The part of chaplain-man-of-the-world, a part often played, and still playable. 1887Gurney Tertium Quid II. 57 Old Scotch tunes playable on the black keys of a piano. 1898Daily News 5 May 5/2 The maestro laid the instrument down with an evident air of contempt, but he declared it to be playable.
b. Of a cricket or football ground or the like: Admitting of or fit for playing on.
1872Daily News 15 July, The play did not commence..until half-past 11, when the ground was rendered ‘playable’ by the copious use of sawdust. 1881Sportsman 31 Jan. 4/5 Football at Oxford..the ground will hardly be playable until the end of this week.
Hence playaˈbility, the quality of being playable.
1881Stevenson Virg. Puerisque 259 Bound up with the subject of play, and the precise amount of playfulness, or playability, to be looked for in the world. 1977Early Music Apr. 151 It would be a useful piece of work if someone were to collect and analyse them [sc. wind instruments depicted in medieval manuscripts] according to types and theoretical playability. |