weighableadj.

Brit.

/ˈweɪəbl/, U.S.

/ˈweɪəb(ə)l/

Etymology: < weigh v.¹ + -able suffix.

That can be weighed; heavy enough (or reckoned as heavy enough) to be weighed in scales.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [adjective] > weighed > able to be

weighable1429

poisablec1503

ponderable1646

ponderous1646

1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 349/1 Woll, and al maner þinge weiable.

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. cj^v Of euery one, the Content knowen, in your least waight, that is wayable.

1616 Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 144 All weyabill merchand waris, sic as lint, hemp, irn, woll.

1796 T. Twining Trav. Amer. (1894) 161 It was applicable..in every wholesale warehouse of weighable goods.

1854 C. Dickens Hard Times iii. vii. 334 Anything so..ridiculously shameful as the whelp in his comic livery, Mr. Gradgrind never could by any other means have believed in, weighable and measurable fact though it was.

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 50 I am not aware that the soul of Shakespeare or of Newton, when they died, added any weighable powers to the dust to which they returned.

1885 Leeds Mercury 5 Aug. 3/2 Where he found a weighable quantity was in the liver.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	weighable
释义	weighableadj. Brit. /ˈweɪəbl/, U.S. /ˈweɪəb(ə)l/ Etymology: < weigh v.¹ + -able suffix. That can be weighed; heavy enough (or reckoned as heavy enough) to be weighed in scales. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [adjective] > weighed > able to be weighable1429 poisablec1503 ponderable1646 ponderous1646 1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 349/1 Woll, and al maner þinge weiable. 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. cj^v Of euery one, the Content knowen, in your least waight, that is wayable. 1616 Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 144 All weyabill merchand waris, sic as lint, hemp, irn, woll. 1796 T. Twining Trav. Amer. (1894) 161 It was applicable..in every wholesale warehouse of weighable goods. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times iii. vii. 334 Anything so..ridiculously shameful as the whelp in his comic livery, Mr. Gradgrind never could by any other means have believed in, weighable and measurable fact though it was. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 50 I am not aware that the soul of Shakespeare or of Newton, when they died, added any weighable powers to the dust to which they returned. 1885 Leeds Mercury 5 Aug. 3/2 Where he found a weighable quantity was in the liver. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1429
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