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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
detachable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A detachable keyboard completed the ensemble.
▪ Bookplates, attached to the front paste-down or, less frequently, to the free endpaper, are often readily detachable.
▪ I particularly liked the detachable remote control unit which not only allows you to operate the shutter but also the zoom.
▪ In black, the Deltrintem 8x30 come complete with a tough felt-lined mahogany leather case and detachable lanyard.
▪ The detachable batten is, of course, the norm for the Tabel school.
▪ The knitted cuff around the neck feels snug and the hood is well cut, lined and detachable.
▪ The top lid is detachable, and the main pack extends quite easily.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detachable

Detachable \De*tach"a*ble\, a. That can be detached.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
detachable

1818; see detach + -able.

Wiktionary
detachable

a. Designed to be unfastened or disconnected without damage.

WordNet
detachable

adj. designed to be unfastened or disconnected without damage; "shirts with detachable collars" [ant: attachable]

Usage examples of "detachable".

She strapped on a detachable penis and raped Eve while I was looking at the Hobbit house with a lovely room for the baby.

The pens we used had detachable nibs and it was necessary to dip your nib into the ink-well every six or seven seconds when you were writing.

Pompey, with the interest of a cruel boy in a group of insects owning potentially detachable wings.

Everywhere present and nowhere visible leads him right into the embrace of the death of the author whose intentions have no connection with the meaning of the text which is indeterminate anyway, a multidimensional space where the modern scriptor is born with this, this detachable self this second voice inside predicting the future in its hoarse belly-voice, Strabo?

The toroidal fuel tank was detachable, with room for several more along the slender length of the drive tube.

It loads with a detachable magazine, holding five rounds, not unlike an autopistol, but it is not a firearm and it may be purchased currently without registration and even by mail.

The leeches swelled up, turned blue-black like blood blisters, trembled slightly and ever more slightly, and as soon as they were full and easily detachable, Tulla, now green about the gills, tossed them into a second tin can.

Music, that's really where it all starts and ends next time I see a human being I'll ask for a little music here not just for pleasure no, look for those notes on Nietzsche's Apollinian measured beauty in this heap somewhere but that's not what it's about no, it's this detachable self or soul being tormented in Hades or this guilt Empedocles gets from Pythagoras' school of recollection, training your memory to recollect sins and sufferings of your previous life in his terrifying catechism we came here to be punished and we ought to be punished, because good God!

Like the sea-land cargo containers of the previous century, the holds were detachable and could be parked in orbit or picked up as needed.

The rifle normally mounted a three-round magazine to save weight, given how heavy the big magnum rounds were, but the manufacturer also offered a ten-round detachable box magazine as an option.

It was a one-piece dress, with the petticoat attached to the skirt like a detachable lining, and the bodice, cross-laced in front and tied in the back, was thus able to follow more or less the delicate contours of her bosom, depending on how tightly the bodice was laced Jeanne had laced it very tight' and through the open door O was able to see herself reflected In the bathroom mirror, slim and lost in the green satin which bfflowed at her hips, as a hoop skirt would have done.

Locklear could see no interconnects between the stasis generator and the polarizer, but both were detachable.

Instead his head was covered with a helmet of metaplast which had the detachable visor and the bubble ear pockets of a built in short wave receiver-the usual head gear of a Survey man.

Instead his head was covered with a helmet of metaplast which had the detachable visor and the bubble ear pockets of a built in short wave receiver—the usual head gear of a Survey man.

Would it,' he asked the ancestor, 'be a silver-gilt porringer on a circular moulded foot, the lower part chased with acanthus foliage, with beaded scroll handles, the cover surmounted by a foliage on a rosette of swirling acanthus leaves, the stand of tazza form on circular detachable feet with acanthus border joined to a multifoil plate, the palin top with upcurved rim?