Traceable
['treɪsəbl] or ['tresəbl]
Definition
(adj.) (usually followed by `to') able to be traced to; 'a failure traceable to lack of energy' .
(adj.) capable of being traced or tracked; 'a traceable riverbed'; 'the traceable course of an ancient wall' .
Typed by Jack--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of being traced.
Typist: Rudy
Examples
- Bloody insurrections repeatedly broke out, always traceable ultimately to the pressure of taxation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In Chinese writing there are still traceable a number of pictographs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The same fundamental roots, the same grammatical ideas, are traceable through all this family. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In various places their villages are still traceable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thinner and less immediately traceable than the other two, it was far more impressive than either. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There is a streak of very negroid blood traceable in south Persia and some parts of India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Two divergent lines of thought are traceable in Jewish affairs during these five hundred years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Rudy