| 单词 | navigable |
| 释义 | navigable (once / 1959 pages) adj If you can get your ship through, then both the ship and the waterway are navigable. If people of average intelligence could wade their way through the federal tax code without help, the IRS would be navigable. Alas. On the other hand, the New York City subway system is quite navigable, as are any of its functioning trains. If one can get through a passageway or system, it is considered navigable. Likewise, if a truck, car, boat, plane, train, or other vessel can be steered then it, too, is navigable. WORD FAMILYnavigable: navigability, unnavigable+/circumnavigate: circumnavigated, circumnavigates, circumnavigating, circumnavigation/circumnavigation: circumnavigations/navigate: circumnavigate, navigable, navigated, navigates, navigating, navigation, navigator/navigation: navigational, navigations/navigational: navigationally/navigator: navigators USAGE EXAMPLESCommercial rafters never stopped using their rights to a navigable waterway, though they lost business after the blowout. Washington Times(Nov 29, 2016) Rains reduce traffic on these easily navigable paths through a lush wooded landscape. Seattle Times(Nov 23, 2016) The city is easily navigable by foot, bike and bus. Washington Times(Nov 15, 2016) adj able to be sailed on or through safely navigable waters a navigable channel Syn passable able to be passed or traversed or crossed |
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