Tangible
['tæn(d)ʒɪb(ə)l] or ['tændʒəbl]
Definition
(adj.) perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch; 'skin with a tangible roughness' .
(adj.) (of especially business assets) having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value ; 'tangible property like real estate'; 'tangible assets such as machinery' .
Checker: Lucy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
(a.) Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.
Checked by Candy
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Tactile, palpable.[2]. Real, certain, positive, substantial, substantive, solid.
Editor: Philip
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Palpable, tactile, substantial, real, substantive, perceptible, corporeal,material, comprehensible
ANT:Impalpable, intangible, spiritual, incorporeal, immaterial, incomprehensible
Typed by Joan
Definition
adj. perceptible by the touch: capable of being possessed or realised.—ns. Tangib′ilē a tactile sensation or object; Tangibil′ity quality of being tangible or perceptible to the touch; Tan′gibleness the state or quality of being tangible.—adv. Tan′gibly.
Typist: Montague
Examples
- The Commission does not say, and I for one, ascribe the silence to the American preoccupation with immediate, definite, tangible interests. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The only tangible fact was that the commissionnaire's wife--Mrs. Tangey was the name--had hurried out of the place. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I want a people that shall have a tangible, separate existence of its own; and where am I to look for it? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Their utilitarian value in forming habits of skill to be used for tangible results is important, but not when isolated from the appreciative side. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This invisible and intangible distance is also found by experience to contain a capacity of receiving body, or of becoming visible and tangible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- As they produced no visible effect on the object against whom they were discharged, however, he resorted to more tangible arguments. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It had been well, if such vain terrors could have distracted our thoughts from more tangible evils. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A clear line of difference divided like a tangible fence her experience within this maze of motion from her experience without it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I apply the word to all who have something tangible to sell; but if you think the term is not correct, papa, I won't use it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The vote is the tangible thing, and for that these Socialist politicians work. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- During that time he had been living with his youthful memory of her; but she had doubtless had other and more tangible companionship. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Surrounded by poverty, decay and ruin, it conveys to us a more tangible impression of the former greatness of Pisa than books could give us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- With increasing maturity, activity which does not give back results of tangible and visible achievement loses its interest. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I think that there was probably some more tangible cause. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In evoking dread and hope of specific tangible reward--say comfort and ease--many other capacities are left untouched. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Ruth