单词 | occupiable |
释义 | occupiableadj. Able or fit to be occupied. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > habitable biglyc1400 habitablea1425 tenantable1542 inhabitable1601 liveable1814 occupiable1814 occupable1853 live-in1955 1814 Military Reg. 10 Aug. 625 Refusal to give me any account of the site of the geometrical boundary prescribed to me, or even to grant me an occupiable billet ascertainably within the limits..amounted to nothing less than [etc.]. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Sept. 3/2 There are points..where a man on an elevation, and with a glass, can nearly see across Canada—across, that is, the occupied, probably the occupiable portion of it. 1869 N. Porter Human Intellect (ed. 2) 564 Even those which are conceived to be bounded by surfaces and lines, as geometrical quantities and the so-called portions of duration, which may be divided by instants, are only conceivable as occupiable by bodies and events. 1938 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 169 134 Any configuration of the assembly can be described by specifying the number and geometry of occupiable sites in the assembly and how each site is occupied. 1990 Times 29 Mar. 15/2 It is called ‘standard community charge’..on the assumption that a property is occupiable by two adults. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1814 |
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