单词 | passageable |
释义 | † passageableadj.1 Obsolete. Feasible. Also (literal): passable. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [adjective] > travelled on, over, or through > able to be trespassablec1400 permeable?a1439 passable1483 travellable1521 passageable1574 perviable1610 transpassable1614 perviousa1631 commerceable1654 traversable1658 practicable1710 viable1856 crossable1865 negotiable1880 1574 W. Bourne Regim. for Sea (1580) 75 To discourse the third way, that is not known, but supposed that it may be passageable. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xvi. 218/1 In making waies passageable from place to place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021). passageableadj.2 Medicine and Biology. Esp. of tumour or tissue cells: capable of being subjected to passage (passage n. 10b). ΚΠ 1973 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 70 860/1 Morton's liposarcoma, passageable serially by direct transplant of tumours. 1997 Cancer Res. 57 1590 Twenty nine of 44 (66%) specimens processed yielded proliferative and passageable cultures. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11574adj.21973 |
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