orderableadj.

Brit.

/ˈɔːd(ə)rəbl/, U.S.

/ˈɔrd(ə)rəb(ə)l/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: order v., -able suffix.

Etymology: < order v. + -able suffix.

1. Capable of being ordered or directed (to an end or result); amenable to direction or control.Rare after the 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > able to be led or directed

menablea1393

orderable1582

guidable1676

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xiii. 78 For the thing it self will soon be ordered (our custom is grown so orderable) tho it require som diligence, and good consideration, in him that must find it out.

a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 27 No act of sin is in its nature orderable to any good end.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 113 The King..being very orderable in all His sicknesse.

1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 216 It makes a body orderable to all possible Action.

1930 Jrnl. Philos. 27 158 Man has the inevitable tendency to believe that because some part of existence is orderable all of it must be capable of being ordered.

1988 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 50 80/1 A tendency to expect the world to be ordered, or orderable, facilitates cognitive clarification of the nature of the problems stressors pose.

2. That may be requested or ordered; available for purchase, consumption, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > merchandise > [adjective] > types of goods

homemade1565

consumable1692

in nature1719

inconsumable1785

soft1833

tenderable1868

orderable1872

self-serve1918

offshore1947

house-made1972

1872 C. S. Keyser Fairmount Park (ed. 5) 82 Those ancient hotels..still furnish..the same bill of fare as they served before the Revolution, and orderable always as ‘catfish and coffee’.

1962 C. O. Frake in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 438 Some, but apparently not all, orderable items at a lunch counter are distinguished by the term something to eat.

1971 Wescon Techn. Papers (Western Electronic Show & Convention) 15 i. 1/1 There are over 2,000 orderable versions.

1998 Voice Technol. News (Electronic ed.) 29 Sept. CallPilot will be orderable at the end of this year in North America.

3. That may be arranged in a series.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > able to be arranged in series

orderable1925

1925 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 180 Hence U₂ consists of the members of a normally orderable class of finite sets of elements and is therefore normally orderable.

1939 H. Jeffreys Theory of Probability i. 15 It is generally believed that probabilities are orderable.

1949 Mind 58 194 Recently it was realised that it was not necessary to regard satisfactions as additive; all previous conclusions about economic behaviour could still be deduced if they were merely regarded as orderable.

1996 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 61 698 Countable Levi's theorem saying that a countable Abelian group G is orderable..if and only if it is torsion-free.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	orderable
释义	orderableadj. Brit. /ˈɔːd(ə)rəbl/, U.S. /ˈɔrd(ə)rəb(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: order v., -able suffix. Etymology: < order v. + -able suffix. 1. Capable of being ordered or directed (to an end or result); amenable to direction or control.Rare after the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > able to be led or directed menablea1393 orderable1582 guidable1676 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xiii. 78 For the thing it self will soon be ordered (our custom is grown so orderable) tho it require som diligence, and good consideration, in him that must find it out. a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 27 No act of sin is in its nature orderable to any good end. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 113 The King..being very orderable in all His sicknesse. 1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 216 It makes a body orderable to all possible Action. 1930 Jrnl. Philos. 27 158 Man has the inevitable tendency to believe that because some part of existence is orderable all of it must be capable of being ordered. 1988 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 50 80/1 A tendency to expect the world to be ordered, or orderable, facilitates cognitive clarification of the nature of the problems stressors pose. 2. That may be requested or ordered; available for purchase, consumption, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [adjective] > types of goods homemade1565 consumable1692 in nature1719 inconsumable1785 soft1833 tenderable1868 orderable1872 self-serve1918 offshore1947 house-made1972 1872 C. S. Keyser Fairmount Park (ed. 5) 82 Those ancient hotels..still furnish..the same bill of fare as they served before the Revolution, and orderable always as ‘catfish and coffee’. 1962 C. O. Frake in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 438 Some, but apparently not all, orderable items at a lunch counter are distinguished by the term something to eat. 1971 Wescon Techn. Papers (Western Electronic Show & Convention) 15 i. 1/1 There are over 2,000 orderable versions. 1998 Voice Technol. News (Electronic ed.) 29 Sept. CallPilot will be orderable at the end of this year in North America. 3. That may be arranged in a series. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > able to be arranged in series orderable1925 1925 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 180 Hence U₂ consists of the members of a normally orderable class of finite sets of elements and is therefore normally orderable. 1939 H. Jeffreys Theory of Probability i. 15 It is generally believed that probabilities are orderable. 1949 Mind 58 194 Recently it was realised that it was not necessary to regard satisfactions as additive; all previous conclusions about economic behaviour could still be deduced if they were merely regarded as orderable. 1996 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 61 698 Countable Levi's theorem saying that a countable Abelian group G is orderable..if and only if it is torsion-free. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1582
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