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UK
/tɹænslˈeɪtəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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capable of being put into another form or style or language
substances readily translatable to the American home table
his books are eminently translatable -
capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy
is lead really transmutable into gold?
ideas translatable into reality
How To Use translatable In A Sentence
- In a worldwide poll of professional translators, Ilunga won the award for the most untranslatable word in the world.
- Or maybe any conceivable account is translatable into cognitive theory, which then loses all empirical content.
- Andy Ricker, who won the 2011 James Beard award for best chef in the Northwest, shops the stalls of Hmong farmers at his Portland, Oregon, market to find fiddlehead ferns, vegetables like "phak khanaa" or Chinese broccoli, exotic, untranslatable herbs and crucial ingredients like cilantro root for the innovative Asian cuisine he turns out at his restaurant Pok Pok. Chefs talk about unusual farmers market finds
- For the purpose of walking on uneven terrain, the main features of BR2 include geniculate legs and a translatable balance weight in the body.
- Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- A distinction was early made between readily traceable sabotage, blowing objects up with a bang, and undetectable sabotage - insaississable was the almost untranslatable French word for it.
- My vote for the most untranslatable word would go to nyakaa, a Bengali word that could mean coy, or teasing, or bashful, or suggests fake niceness or phoney innocence.
- ideas translatable into reality
- In order for MDD to achieve comparable improvements in development productivity, it must incorporate the same level of automation; models must be automatically translatable into executable code.
- Elsewhere, as when she remarks in a section on language that ‘human rights’ is a concept untranslatable into Chinese, you feel a more elaborate discussion of the situation is called for.