compatibleadj.n.

/kəmˈpatɪb(ə)l/

Etymology: < French compatible, < medieval Latin compatibilis (as in beneficium compatibile , i.e. one that can be held along with another, Du Cange), < compati to suffer with (see compassion n.). Dr. Johnson thought this word a corruption of competible adj., which ‘is found in good authors, and ought always to be used’. The quotations, however, show that the meanings of the two words were different from the beginning, and that compatible adj. and n. was the older word. Confusion seems to have taken place later: see 2c.

†1. Participating in suffering; sympathetic. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > [adjective] > characterized by sympathy > feeling sympathy

compatient1382

compatible1490

compassionatea1631

sympathizing1684

sympathetica1718

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos (1890) xxii. 78 Y^e remembraunce greued hym ryght sorowfully by incytacion compatyble whiche admonnesteth hym to socoure this dolant lady.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Kk2 The Infant in the mothers wombe, is compatible with the mother, and yet separable.

1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 33 A compatible commiseration of those, who I know lye groaning under it.

a. Mutually tolerant; capable of being admitted together, or of existing together in the same subject; accordant, consistent, congruous, agreeable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [adjective] > compatible

compatible1532

alliable1543

answerable1590

unrepugnant1593

compossible1638

competenta1670

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 485/1 Wedlocke and priesthod be not repugnant but compatible of their nature.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 449/1 But those formes which are so distincted, that they be not contrary but disalike: are compatible in one subiect, as quantitie & qualitie.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. iv. 123 Many other like words borrowed out of the Latin and French, were not so well to be allowed by vs, as these words..compatible, for agreeable in nature.

a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 91 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) If any do them affront or iniurie, He and I (say they) are not compatible in this City.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Compatible, compatible, concurrable; which can abide, or agree together; or indure, or beare with, one another.

1725 A. Pope Le Bossu's Gen. View Epic Poem in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. p. xxii Our Poets have joyn'd together such Qualities as are by nature the most compatible.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxxvi. 259 Can friendship and reserve be compatible?

1884 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 524 It develops..all sorts of energies and capacities..with all compatible fulness and efficiency.

b. Const. with.

ΚΠ

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 165 An honour out of his way, and scarce compatible with his State at home.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. L3/2 Heat is compatible with Moisture.

1794 Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 196 Every reform that was compatible..with order and good government.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 549 He did not think it compatible with his personal dignity.

†c. Const. to. Obsolete. (In this const. confused with competible adj.: cf. esp. quots. 1668, a1714.)

ΚΠ

1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 127 A fault in my discretion scarce compatible to the love and trust I bare him.

1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 88 A pleasure compatible to a creature.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xiii. 78 Neither of these ways of Separation..is, as I think, compatible to pure Space.

a1714 J. Sharp Serm. II. iii. (R.) We have not only all the proofs of genuineness..that can be given for any other writings..but this over and above, which is compatible to none but these.

d. Specific scientific and technical uses (see quots. and cf. compatibility n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > relating to powers or effects of drugs > compatible with others

compatible1899

the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [adjective] > conditions of material

submicroscopical1879

naive1906

compatible1926

ultrathin1949

untypable1950

histocompatible1956

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > characterized by pollination > cross-fertilizing > capacity for

compatible1935

society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [adjective] > compatible with monochrome receiver

compatible1949

the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [adjective] > relating to paint > qualities of paint

under-glaze1879

compatible1953

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [adjective] > capacity of recording to be received or played

compatible1958

1899 Practitioner Dec. 622 The apparently isomeric sulphocarbolates of zinc and sodium do not react as sulphates, and are compatible with lead salts.

1926 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 22 May 1596/1 In the present series of forty persons are to be found about 40 per cent whose serum or white blood cells seem to be mutually compatible with all others.

1929 I. W. D. Hackh Chem. Dict. 195/1 Compatible, any pair of drugs which do not interfere or react chemically, physically or therapeutically with one another.

1935 Biol. Abstr. 9 5627 Vigorous scions of pears are more compatible because they become more readily adapted to the high conc. of protoplasm in the rootstocks.

1938 M. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Plant Form & Funct. xxiii. 252 Grafting and budding are usually only possible between related types of plants. Those which can be associated successfully are termed compatible, but both compatible and imcompatible strains..may occur.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 183/1 Compatible (Bot.), capable of self-fertilisation.

1949 Radio Corp. Amer. Rev. X. 523 The all-electronic color television system described is a fully compatible system.

1953 Gloss. Paint Terms (B.S.I.) 11 Compatible. a. Two or more paints or varnishes which can be mixed in bulk without producing any undesirable effects such as precipitation, coagulation, gelling, are said to be compatible. b. Different coats of paint which can be associated in a painting system without producing undesirable effects are said to be compatible.

1955 G. G. Gouriet Introd. Colour Television ii. ii. 41 For a system to be fully compatible,..it should provide a signal which conforms substantially to present-day black-and-white standards.

1958 Times 20 Jan. 10/4 Stereophonic records will not be ‘compatible’, that is, able to be played on ordinary gramophones.

1958 Listener 16 Oct. 605/2 The system which is being used for the forthcoming series of stereophonic sound broadcasts..has the serious disadvantage of not being compatible; i.e., properly balanced reproduction will not be obtained when listening to either one channel alone.

1966 Melody Maker 8 Oct. 13/1 All Musicassettes are compatible which means they can be played on mono or stereo equipment.

1969 Lancet 4 Jan. 34/1 Patients with HL-A-compatible grafts were clinically superior and less prone to multiple or severe rejection crises than patients who had received incompatible grafts.

3. Of benefices: Capable of being held together.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [adjective] > capable of being held together

compatible1559

1559 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1725) I. xiv. 186 Being presented to such churches compatible, over and above his principal cure.

1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 65.

Draft additions September 2006

Computing. Of hardware, software, a data format, etc.: usable on or with a specified piece of equipment or software, esp. without adaptation or modification. Frequently with distinguishing word.

ΚΠ

1960 Communications ACM 3 420 The other extreme viewpoint of compatibility is that any two machines of the same general class are compatible since both are essentially equivalent to the same Universal Turing Machine and hence to each other.

1962 D. S. Halacy Computers iii. 54 Punched cards, which fall into the category called computer ‘software’ are cheap, flexible, and compatible with many types of equipment.

1981 Electronics 10 Mar. 165/1 Software supported by the operating system will remain compatible across the product line and across time.

1991 Personal Computer World Feb. 245/4 Where people say IBM compatible now, Sun would like people to say Sun compatible.

2005 Future Music Winter 57/1 All tempo-grouped and compatible with your favourite music software.

Draft additions September 2006

Computing. Hardware or software that is usable on or with a specified piece of equipment or software, esp. without adaptation or modification. Frequently with distinguishing word.

ΚΠ

1965 Computer Bull. June 20/1 In addition to upward compatibility the Compatibles/100 offer users the protection of a more complete range of software.]

1972 Managem. Informatics 1 259/1 What are the advantages to be gained through the installation of plug-to-plug compatibles?

1983 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Aug. 7/2 Leading Melbourne retailer Computer Edge was conspicuous for the Apples and Apple compatibles which have featured heavily in its advertising.

1991 Tear Times (Tear Fund) No. 52. 19/2 The toner cartridges must be those for use with..Canon/Hewlett Packard laser printers (Series I and II) and their compatibles.

2001 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 4 June d4 The company was losing the personal computer battle to IBM compatibles, and failing to capitalize on its respected brand in business services.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	compatible
释义	compatibleadj.n. /kəmˈpatɪb(ə)l/ Etymology: < French compatible, < medieval Latin compatibilis (as in beneficium compatibile , i.e. one that can be held along with another, Du Cange), < compati to suffer with (see compassion n.). Dr. Johnson thought this word a corruption of competible adj., which ‘is found in good authors, and ought always to be used’. The quotations, however, show that the meanings of the two words were different from the beginning, and that compatible adj. and n. was the older word. Confusion seems to have taken place later: see 2c. †1. Participating in suffering; sympathetic. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > [adjective] > characterized by sympathy > feeling sympathy compatient1382 compatible1490 compassionatea1631 sympathizing1684 sympathetica1718 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos (1890) xxii. 78 Y^e remembraunce greued hym ryght sorowfully by incytacion compatyble whiche admonnesteth hym to socoure this dolant lady. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Kk2 The Infant in the mothers wombe, is compatible with the mother, and yet separable. View more context for this quotation 1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 33 A compatible commiseration of those, who I know lye groaning under it. 2. a. Mutually tolerant; capable of being admitted together, or of existing together in the same subject; accordant, consistent, congruous, agreeable. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [adjective] > compatible compatible1532 alliable1543 answerable1590 unrepugnant1593 compossible1638 competenta1670 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 485/1 Wedlocke and priesthod be not repugnant but compatible of their nature. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 449/1 But those formes which are so distincted, that they be not contrary but disalike: are compatible in one subiect, as quantitie & qualitie. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. iv. 123 Many other like words borrowed out of the Latin and French, were not so well to be allowed by vs, as these words..compatible, for agreeable in nature. a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 91 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) If any do them affront or iniurie, He and I (say they) are not compatible in this City. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Compatible, compatible, concurrable; which can abide, or agree together; or indure, or beare with, one another. 1725 A. Pope Le Bossu's Gen. View Epic Poem in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. p. xxii Our Poets have joyn'd together such Qualities as are by nature the most compatible. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxxvi. 259 Can friendship and reserve be compatible? 1884 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 524 It develops..all sorts of energies and capacities..with all compatible fulness and efficiency. b. Const. with. ΚΠ 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 165 An honour out of his way, and scarce compatible with his State at home. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. L3/2 Heat is compatible with Moisture. 1794 Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 196 Every reform that was compatible..with order and good government. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 549 He did not think it compatible with his personal dignity. †c. Const. to. Obsolete. (In this const. confused with competible adj.: cf. esp. quots. 1668, a1714.) ΚΠ 1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 127 A fault in my discretion scarce compatible to the love and trust I bare him. 1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 88 A pleasure compatible to a creature. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xiii. 78 Neither of these ways of Separation..is, as I think, compatible to pure Space. a1714 J. Sharp Serm. II. iii. (R.) We have not only all the proofs of genuineness..that can be given for any other writings..but this over and above, which is compatible to none but these. d. Specific scientific and technical uses (see quots. and cf. compatibility n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > relating to powers or effects of drugs > compatible with others compatible1899 the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [adjective] > conditions of material submicroscopical1879 naive1906 compatible1926 ultrathin1949 untypable1950 histocompatible1956 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > characterized by pollination > cross-fertilizing > capacity for compatible1935 society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [adjective] > compatible with monochrome receiver compatible1949 the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [adjective] > relating to paint > qualities of paint under-glaze1879 compatible1953 society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [adjective] > capacity of recording to be received or played compatible1958 1899 Practitioner Dec. 622 The apparently isomeric sulphocarbolates of zinc and sodium do not react as sulphates, and are compatible with lead salts. 1926 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 22 May 1596/1 In the present series of forty persons are to be found about 40 per cent whose serum or white blood cells seem to be mutually compatible with all others. 1929 I. W. D. Hackh Chem. Dict. 195/1 Compatible, any pair of drugs which do not interfere or react chemically, physically or therapeutically with one another. 1935 Biol. Abstr. 9 5627 Vigorous scions of pears are more compatible because they become more readily adapted to the high conc. of protoplasm in the rootstocks. 1938 M. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Plant Form & Funct. xxiii. 252 Grafting and budding are usually only possible between related types of plants. Those which can be associated successfully are termed compatible, but both compatible and imcompatible strains..may occur. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 183/1 Compatible (Bot.), capable of self-fertilisation. 1949 Radio Corp. Amer. Rev. X. 523 The all-electronic color television system described is a fully compatible system. 1953 Gloss. Paint Terms (B.S.I.) 11 Compatible. a. Two or more paints or varnishes which can be mixed in bulk without producing any undesirable effects such as precipitation, coagulation, gelling, are said to be compatible. b. Different coats of paint which can be associated in a painting system without producing undesirable effects are said to be compatible. 1955 G. G. Gouriet Introd. Colour Television ii. ii. 41 For a system to be fully compatible,..it should provide a signal which conforms substantially to present-day black-and-white standards. 1958 Times 20 Jan. 10/4 Stereophonic records will not be ‘compatible’, that is, able to be played on ordinary gramophones. 1958 Listener 16 Oct. 605/2 The system which is being used for the forthcoming series of stereophonic sound broadcasts..has the serious disadvantage of not being compatible; i.e., properly balanced reproduction will not be obtained when listening to either one channel alone. 1966 Melody Maker 8 Oct. 13/1 All Musicassettes are compatible which means they can be played on mono or stereo equipment. 1969 Lancet 4 Jan. 34/1 Patients with HL-A-compatible grafts were clinically superior and less prone to multiple or severe rejection crises than patients who had received incompatible grafts. 3. Of benefices: Capable of being held together. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [adjective] > capable of being held together compatible1559 1559 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1725) I. xiv. 186 Being presented to such churches compatible, over and above his principal cure. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 65. Draft additions September 2006 Computing. Of hardware, software, a data format, etc.: usable on or with a specified piece of equipment or software, esp. without adaptation or modification. Frequently with distinguishing word. ΚΠ 1960 Communications ACM 3 420 The other extreme viewpoint of compatibility is that any two machines of the same general class are compatible since both are essentially equivalent to the same Universal Turing Machine and hence to each other. 1962 D. S. Halacy Computers iii. 54 Punched cards, which fall into the category called computer ‘software’ are cheap, flexible, and compatible with many types of equipment. 1981 Electronics 10 Mar. 165/1 Software supported by the operating system will remain compatible across the product line and across time. 1991 Personal Computer World Feb. 245/4 Where people say IBM compatible now, Sun would like people to say Sun compatible. 2005 Future Music Winter 57/1 All tempo-grouped and compatible with your favourite music software. Draft additions September 2006 Computing. Hardware or software that is usable on or with a specified piece of equipment or software, esp. without adaptation or modification. Frequently with distinguishing word. ΚΠ 1965 Computer Bull. June 20/1 In addition to upward compatibility the Compatibles/100 offer users the protection of a more complete range of software.] 1972 Managem. Informatics 1 259/1 What are the advantages to be gained through the installation of plug-to-plug compatibles? 1983 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Aug. 7/2 Leading Melbourne retailer Computer Edge was conspicuous for the Apples and Apple compatibles which have featured heavily in its advertising. 1991 Tear Times (Tear Fund) No. 52. 19/2 The toner cartridges must be those for use with..Canon/Hewlett Packard laser printers (Series I and II) and their compatibles. 2001 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 4 June d4 The company was losing the personal computer battle to IBM compatibles, and failing to capitalize on its respected brand in business services. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.n.1490
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