| 释义 |
ˈorderable, a. rare.
[f. order v. + -able.]
a. Capable of being ordered or directed (to an end or result); amenable to direction or control.
b. That may be arranged in series.
c. That may be ordered (at a snack bar, etc.).
1641J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 27 No act of sin is in its nature orderable to any good end. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. x. vii. §22 The King..being very orderable in all His sicknesse. 1656[? J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 216 It makes a body orderable to all possible Action. 1949Mind LVIII. 194 Recently it was realised that it was not necessary to regard satisfactions as additive; all previous conclusions about economic behaviour could still be deduced if they were merely regarded as orderable. 1962C. O. Frake in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 438 Some, but apparently not all, orderable items at a lunch counter are distinguished by the term something to eat. |
