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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
available
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an option is open/available to sb (=a particular choice is available to someone)
▪ Giving a prison sentence is only one of the options open to the judge.
available resources
▪ The aim was to make use of all available resources.
easily accessible/available etc
▪ The castle is easily accessible by road.
generally available
▪ It could be five years before the drug is generally available.
presently available
▪ The range of courses presently available has grown.
readily available
▪ Boats are readily available to visitors.
the best available
▪ The tuition we offer here is the best available.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Sheets and mattress protectors are also available, if you have problems during the night.
▪ They are also available pickled in cans.
▪ Accessories are also available from me including Black Ada diggers.
▪ Preand post tour packages to New Orleans are also available.
▪ Discounts on selected U.W.F. items is also available to supporters.
▪ In addition to the plain all-butter version, a chocolate-filled version is also available.
▪ Opportunities for research in translation at higher levels are also available.
▪ Swimming is also available at the Lido, where there is a large sand beach, and at the swimming pool.
currently
▪ Only limited taxation relief is currently available on these costs.
▪ It's largely for this reason that most researchers are not enthusiastic about all the eye care dietary supplements currently available.
▪ And pictured right is Magnet's stunning new Walnut kitchen - currently available in selected stores only.
▪ It has many advantages over the currently available regimens.
▪ Clearly, the existing technologies are a limitation and multimedia must temporarily be constrained by the platforms currently available to deliver it.
▪ The great range of taped music currently available adds today's modern sounds and brings another dimension to the class.
▪ In that way housing associations could immediately buy up many of the surplus properties that are currently available on the housing market.
▪ A new booklet Guidance for Students with Special Needs is currently available from the above address.
easily
▪ Information on services easily available. 9.
▪ And opportunities to bet on the stock market have become far more easily available.
▪ The materials used to build villas varied according to what was easily available nearby.
▪ When they become rich and prominent, they find women easily available.
▪ It made the annual holiday more easily available to millions.
▪ Acceptable use policies of non-ISPs are published and are usually easily available in the network information service centers of the target network.
▪ Clearly, this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia.
▪ These are matters well known to everybody, with the details easily available in any basic biology book.
freely
▪ Good relations between partners depend on their sharing equally the work and making their findings freely available to each other.
▪ Nine items that a freely available on both sides of the channel.
▪ She says the files she looked at weren't confidential and were freely available for consultation by any senior member of staff.
▪ Now that facilities will be freely available and not the subject of constant negotiation we hope that even more undergraduates will participate.
▪ Services such as cooking, laundry and the education of children are freely available to all.
▪ Meanwhile the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has said that it is making its course materials freely available on the internet.
▪ The means of power and decision-making in the decentralized authority are made freely available to non-state agencies and other organized interest groups.
▪ New, visa and bureaucracy-free passports, are not yet freely available.
generally
▪ These shears are not generally available to the public, so take this opportunity to acquire a pair now.
▪ The older works listed first are still widely read and most are generally available in both hardcover and paperback.
▪ Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty, it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training.
▪ But such devices were not yet generally accepted, and would not be-come generally available for another fifty years.
▪ The first SBus solution supporting distributed voice processing applications, it will be generally available by June following a May beta.
▪ Posters and leaflets are generally available from Headquarters.
▪ Some products will benefit from being generally available for photography or for legitimate testing.
▪ The final versions of these will be generally available soon.
now
▪ Opinions differ about the breadth of opportunities now available.
▪ A great many studies are now available.
▪ The arguments that are now available to justify the use of particular methods are much more convincing than they used to be.
▪ Abbott labs has begun testing a protease inhibitor designed to be five times more powerful than those now available.
▪ Their legacy may not survive the new system of classification now available in the National Curriculum.
▪ Unwelcome surprise Still, the personal information now available on the Internet is an unwelcome surprise for many.
▪ Francis Beckett's highly praised biography is now available in paperback for the first time.
only
▪ Supplies are still limited, despite the growing demand, and it is only available from selected stores.
▪ But that meant sometimes passing over more telling data only available for states and the nation.
▪ The method is only available for use with virtual storage systems, and offers access to records in three ways.
▪ Black Entertainment Television, though only available through cable services, reaches about 40 million homes.
▪ The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public.
▪ This special offer price includes post and packing and is only available until the end of August.
▪ Exemptions are only available if four requirements, two positive and two negative, are fulfilled.
▪ Assistance is only available to those who are able to bring relevant proceedings to court in their own right.
readily
▪ Supporting arrangements are rarely readily available.
▪ Figures for Steve Forbes were not readily available.
▪ Nothing so readily available was worth having, not even women as beautiful as ... The breath caught in his throat.
▪ This sheet should be readily available in each Group and need not be obtained from Finance.
▪ One was effective and readily available from commercial breeders.
▪ Or if your pride and joy 80 inch needs new swivel hubs, these are readily available.
▪ Low octane petrol is readily available almost everywhere, while paraffin is widely used in the third world.
▪ The two heatsinks for the Darlington transistor and diode D1 should also be readily available.
widely
▪ This information was made widely available by Mining Awareness.
▪ Jalapefio: The most widely available hot chili, jalapenos can be either green or red.
▪ Health education and nutritional information are widely available to everyone.
▪ Shopping for Quail Quail, one of the most widely available of all game birds, are stocked in many poultry departments.
▪ Courses and workshops on the topic are widely available.
▪ Birth control devices and information had never been widely available, and now they all but disappeared.
▪ Interpet products are widely available in the aquatic trade, in case of difficulty contact Another internal power filter comes to us from Eheim.
▪ On the Rebound Since caffeine is relatively inexpensive and widely available, the dose escalation induced by tolerance is seldom burdensome.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
freely available
▪ Contraceptives are freely available without prescription in pharmacies.
▪ Good relations between partners depend on their sharing equally the work and making their findings freely available to each other.
▪ It's freely available on the Internet and used as the core of many ISPs' Windows 3.x bundles.
▪ Nine items that a freely available on both sides of the channel.
▪ Now that facilities will be freely available and not the subject of constant negotiation we hope that even more undergraduates will participate.
▪ Services such as cooking, laundry and the education of children are freely available to all.
▪ She says the files she looked at weren't confidential and were freely available for consultation by any senior member of staff.
▪ The office facilities which include a duplicator and photocopier are freely available. 4.
▪ There is no need to have any security inquiry into that document because it uses published, freely available sources.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do you have a room available for this weekend?
▪ Drugs like heroin are readily available on the streets.
▪ Grants are available to students who have high grades.
▪ Houses were being built on every available plot of land.
▪ More money may become available later in the year.
▪ Most of the staff is away today so you'll have to use whoever is available.
▪ None of the witnesses were available for comment.
▪ The mayor was not available for comment.
▪ The publication is available from the U.S. department of Agriculture.
▪ There's no room for more books - we've used up all the available space.
▪ These statistics are never sold or made available to the public.
▪ This program will take up a lot of your available disk space.
▪ Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster locations.
▪ Use whatever seasonal vegetables are available.
▪ We've used up all the available space.
▪ We need someone to work on this job immediately. Who's available?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also available would be cash from dividends of the stocks the funds hold, usually a small amount.
▪ Copies are available in the Vote Office.
▪ Such techniques are not available to middle-class families with modest savings, or to small business owners holding long-term capital gains.
▪ The more directly comprehensible parts of the Challenger's programme were thus made available to the public at a provisional stage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Available

Available \A*vail"a*ble\, a.

  1. Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.]

    Laws human are available by consent.
    --Hooker.

  2. Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate.

    Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable.
    --Carlyle.

    Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares.
    --H. Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
available

mid-15c., "beneficial," also "valid, effective, capable of producing the desired effect," from avail + -able. Meaning "at one's disposal, capable of being made use of" is recorded from 1827.

Wiktionary
available

a. Such as one may avail one’s self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.

WordNet
available
  1. adj. obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service; "kept a fire extinguisher available"; "much information is available through computers"; "available in many colors"; "the list of available candidates is unusually long" [ant: unavailable]

  2. not busy; not otherwise committed; "he was not available for comment"; "he was available and willing to accompany her" [syn: uncommitted]

  3. convenient for use or disposal; "the house is available after July 1"; "2000 square feet of usable office space" [syn: usable, useable]

Wikipedia
Available (disambiguation)

Available refers to availability.

Available may also refer to

  • "Available", song by Frank Sinatra Cahn, Marks, Wynn 1965
  • "Available", song by Moving Units 2004
  • " Available", song by Flo Rida

Usage examples of "available".

And in those times it was well to have the strong arms and sharp blades of any fighters available, for the Lowlands to the north were all aboil and the border was all aflame from end to end.

Second, there are so many embryos available from other sources, there is no need to deal with aborted embryos.

Maybe somebody posted it on their intranet just as a convenience to their own employees, never realizing that it made the information available to everyone on the Internet who has access to a good search engine such as Google -including the just-plain-curious, the wannabe cop, the hacker, and the organized crime boss.

Corporate structure information such as organization charts, hierarchy charts, employee or departmental lists, reporting structure, names, positions, internal contact numbers, employee numbers, or similar information that is used for internal processes should not be made available on publicly accessible Web sites.

If the proper materials, such as acid, coal gas, or acetaldehyde and a proper catalyst were available, then wood cellulose could be converted into ethyl alcohol.

Staying with reality we are the most flexible and adaptable and experienced force available.

Although it was an available alternative, some wholesalers refused to put chicory or any other additives in their coffee.

These measures stretched out the available coffee far better than did chicory additives or other substitutes, but there still were severe shortages.

So after you have read Metamorphosis, if you are curious about the story of Tasha Yar and Darryl Adin, referred to here, you may decide to seek out Survivors, available wherever Star Trek books are sold.

They are available for businesses to advertise on, and their impact is enormous among local residents.

The reason was simple: Radio is the most visual medium available to advertisers since radio commercials have the best opportunity to create vivid imagery in the minds of the consumer.

Id like to reiterate my earlier claim about radio being the most visual medium available to advertisers and to 212 Nuts and Bolts recall the discussion of visual storyboards--a staple in the creation of television conimerciaLs--as a means of developing a radio campaign.

The only way to water the crops was to somehow extract enough moisture from the airsome was available, but difficult to isolate, especially with very small natural temperature changes in the Maracandan atmosphere.

East, called a Crusade, to the certain benefits available in the West, which knowledge about the twin continents of Alata and Atala only he could impart to the man who gave imperious orders to Kings and Emperors.

As Hillela had adapted her subject to the kind of expectations she sensed available in the alumnae, so she moved on to more exacting forums around the Eastern Seaboard, the Middle West and even California.