Applicable
[ə'plɪkəb(ə)l;'æplɪk-] or ['æplɪkəbl]
Definition
(adj.) capable of being applied; having relevance; 'gave applicable examples to support her argument' .
Typist: Morton--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration.
Editor: Whitney
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Suitable, fit, fitting, befitting, appropriate, relevant, adapted, apt, proper, pertinent, apposite, germane, to the point, to the purpose.
Editor: Rebekah
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Available, ancilla, ry, convenient, useful, pertinent, conducive, appropriate
ANT:Useless, unavailable, inconducive, inapplicable, irrelevant
Editor: Marilyn
Examples
- If true, the maxim was not applicable in this case. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Too often the pupil comes out with a smattering which is too superficial to be scientific and too technical to be applicable to ordinary affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But how is the image applicable to the disciples of philosophy? Plato. The Republic.
- One purpose to which it was suggested this coloured photographic process is applicable, is printing on woven fabrics, the action of light serving as a mordant to fix the colours. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Every discovery in science may be applicable to some new purpose, or give greater efficiency to what is old. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It appears to me that this maxim is applicable to the medical as well as to the nautical profession. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- By him the atomic theory of the constitution of matter was made definite and applicable to all the phenomena known to chemistry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is, of course, applicable to the very serious matter now under notice, or I should not allow it to appear in this place. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- So far as the word is concerned, much that was said under the head of directness is applicable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As several of the reasons which have led me to this belief are in some degree applicable in other cases, I will here briefly give them. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This principle of galvanic protection, however, was found to be applicable to many other purposes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But how far this might be applicable to our courts, and favourites, and ministers of state, my master said I could best determine. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- As an ointment it is especially applicable to the treatment of catarrh, malignant sores, abrasions, and other affections where a local remedy can be applied. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Charles Goodyear took this nearly worthless material, and made of it, as Parton said in 1865--not a new material merely, but a new class of materials, applicable to a thousand divers uses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Papier maché has been found to be a material peculiarly applicable for the purpose, and it is now superseding the use of plaster of Paris for taking casts of the types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- How is it applicable to me? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The words (Greek), 'terms' or 'notes,' and (Greek), 'intervals,' are applicable to music as well as to number and figure. Plato. The Republic.
- Governor and commander are interchangeable terms with Phil, expressive of the same respect and deference and applicable to nobody but Mr. George. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is not applicable to any instrument using two independently moving type-wheels; but on nearly if not all other instruments will be found in use. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The same observations were applicable to the sentiments she expressed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- What is true of opium is equally applicable to other narcotics. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- His invention was not, in fact, a new form of loom, but rather an attachment to a loom which was universally applicable to all looms. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As already intimated, every word of this account is directly applicable also to the method of the pupil, the way of learning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And for this reason every thing that has been said on the one subject is applicable to both. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- All this is easily applicable to the appetite for generation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- What I have applied to language, is still more justly applicable to sentiments and manners. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Marilyn