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tangible
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Word definitions for tangible in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Touchable; able to be touched or feel; perceptible by the sense of touch#Noun; palpable. 2 Possible to be treated as fact; real or concrete. 3 comprehensible by the mind; understandable. n. Real or concrete results.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES conclusive/tangible proof (= definite proof ) ▪ There is no conclusive proof that your son is dead. tangible rewards (= things that are obviously worth having ) ▪ The prize motivates people by offering them the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch; "skin with a tangible roughness" [ant: intangible ] possible to be treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor" [syn: real ] ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "capable of being touched," from Middle French tangible and directly from Late Latin tangibilis "that may be touched," from Latin tangere "to touch" (see tangent (adj.)). Sense of "material" (as in tangible reward ) is first recorded 1610s; that ...
Usage examples of tangible.
On the other hand, accelerated motion, although somewhat more complicated than constant-velocity motion, is concrete and tangible.
The westering sun touched each leaf and grass blade with molten gold, an aureate glow which seemed to fill the cool air like a tangible presence, and I could hear the chirp and chatter of the great bird flocks as they settled down in the trees.
Prospectors, with tangible proof of the highly auriferous nature of the deposit.
The dresses Blu Cahill had purchased for her were the first tangible proof of how her life was about to change.
Caton-Thompson thirty years ago -- as by Randall-MacIver before her and other workers in this field, like Summers, after her -- rest on tangible evidence from many sides: on datable Chinese porcelain, on beads from India and Indonesia which are also, to some extent, datable, and on other objects of foreign importation.
Unless that building has some tangible connection to whoever held Dinah there .
Within seconds, the dreamscape became as tangible as the volume of poetry.
Water Front and Terminal Company, Great Geyser Texan Petroleum and Llano Estacado Land Company--dozens and dozens of them, and not one has an office or, so far as I can find out, any tangible existence--but the one I spoke of.
Those tangible engineering practicalities forced Wiener and Bigelow to confront the enigmatic feedback process and the thorny problems Wiener did not tend to in his project with Lee in China.
I could not have remained indifferent, never shewed itself anywhere under a form tangible enough for me to have no doubt of my being despised, and I set it at defiance, because I was satisfied that contempt is due only to cowardly, mean actions, and I was conscious that I had never been guilty of any.
Therefore no tangible interval passed before Hyn galloped free of agony, bearing Linden out into a flood of sunlight and dazzled blindness.
Christendom some form of proof for their age-old beliefs, some tangible support for their goddess-worshipping, Johannite tradition.
The banks and trust companies where Kemper kept his money afforded no tangible clue.
Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman and Rolf Klep make tangible the machines and the nature of space flight that the book describes.
Court has in fact relied to sustain taxation exclusively by the situs State, logically would seem to permit taxation by the domiciliary State as well as by the nondomiciliary State in which the tangibles are situate, especially when the former levies the tax on the owner in terms of the value of the tangibles.