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• giveable —   …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

• giveable — adj. may be given, may be conferred …   English contemporary dictionary

• -able — able, ible 1. general. These two suffixes are derived from Latin endings abilis and ibilis, either directly or through Old French. Of the two, able is an active suffix that can be freely added to the stems of transitive verbs, whereas the set of… …   Modern English usage

• -ible — able, ible 1. general. These two suffixes are derived from Latin endings abilis and ibilis, either directly or through Old French. Of the two, able is an active suffix that can be freely added to the stems of transitive verbs, whereas the set of… …   Modern English usage

• give — givable, giveable, adj., n. givee, n. giver, n. /giv/, v., gave, given, giving, n. v.t. 1. to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone. 2. to hand to someone: Give me that plate, please …   Universalium

• communicable — Synonyms and related words: allowable, assignable, bequeathable, bestowable, catching, conductive, consignable, contagious, conveyable, deadly, destructive, devisable, endemic, envenomed, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, expansive,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• impartable — Synonyms and related words: allowable, assignable, bequeathable, bestowable, communicable, conductive, consignable, contagious, conveyable, devisable, expressable, giveable, interchangeable, mailable, metathetic, movable, portable, portative,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• presentable — Synonyms and related words: Junoesque, OK, acceptable, adequate, admissible, agreeable, all right, allowable, amply endowed, becoming, bequeathable, bestowable, better than nothing, bonny, braw, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• admissible — adj 1. allowable, permissible, legitimate, legal, lawful, licit; just, equitable, fair, reasonable, justifiable. 2. admittable, confessable, concessible, acknowl edgeable, grantable, yieldable, giveable …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• give — v. & n. v. (past gave; past part. given) 1 tr. (also absol.; often foll. by to) transfer the possession of freely; hand over as a present (gave them her old curtains; gives to cancer research). 2 tr. a transfer the ownership of with or without… …   Useful english dictionary