单词 | callable |
释义 | callableadj.ΚΠ 1780 S. Curwen Let. 15 July in Jrnl. & Lett. (1842) xii. 258 A troop of dragoons, being at callable distance, seasonably arrived to prevent further mischief. 2. a. gen. Able to be called; that can be called (in various senses). ΚΠ 1826 Examiner 22 Oct. 673/2 Judges called, or callable, rural. 1874 J. Begg Memorial Constit. Free Church Scotl. 43 The previous rules were not to be applicable to ministers of the United Presbyterian Church, who were to be callable at once. 1982 N.Y. Times 28 Mar. v. 2 Referees detect only half of all callable infractions. 2012 Collector May 46/3 One useful strategy is cleansing, which involves eliminating all bad or wrong phone numbers for an account so collectors see only callable numbers. b. Finance. Of a bond, loan, etc.: that can be called or redeemed by the issuer before the maturity date. Cf. call v. 24. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [adjective] > other attributes of investments or capital sound1601 unexchanged1618 discountable1771 defensive1857 uncalled1869 callable1874 pooled1888 unwatered1893 labile1894 aggressive1899 non-callable1902 geared1930 escrowed1946 undynamized1969 banded1987 1874 Law Times 24 Jan. 709/1 The amount of the callable capital..even upon these two sets of shares was very much increased. 1889 Sat. Rev. 16 Mar. 313/2 Without a cash reserve, or without callable loans with bill-brokers. 1904 Jrnl. Inst. Bankers 25 8 The money lent from ‘day to day’ is callable by the banks at any time. 1959 Economist 18 Apr. 237/2 With $450 million of the amount for hard loans remaining callable as backing for ordinary bond issues. 2010 Financial Managem. 39 613 In light of the dramatic changes in the callable bond market, we re-examine the determinants of callable bonds. c. Computing. Designating a subroutine or other component of a computer program which can be called, typically by a particular programming language. Cf. call v. 26. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > programming language > programme execution > [adjective] callable1963 runnable1964 1963 Project Abstr. (Univ. Calif., Berkeley) 2 64 The adaptations mainly involve the simplification of the logic..and the re-writing of the program as a fortran callable sub-routine. 1981 Computerworld 30 Mar. 53/4 Subroutine libraries callable by high-level language programs. 1996 L. Lasdon et al. in M. Avriel & B. Golany Math. Programming for Industr. Engineers vi. 441 IMSL provides individual callable routines for most variations of linear and non-linear constraints. 2014 B. Stroustrup Programming (ed. 2) xxvii. 1033 Nothing is required from the C program to make a function callable from C++ in this way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1780 |
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