Crossword clues for retractable
retractable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retractable \Re*tract"a*ble\ (r[-e]*tr[=a]kt"[.a]*b'l), a. [Cf. F. r['e]tractable.] Capable of being retracted; retractile.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"capable of being drawn in," 1769; see retract + -able. Meaning "capable of being disowned" is recorded from 1610s. Also sometimes spelled retractible.
Wiktionary
a. Capable of being retracted; retractile. n. A retractable pen.
WordNet
adj. capable of being retracted; "retractable landing gear"
Usage examples of "retractable".
On C-deck, the middle level, Sarah said, a narrow retractable bridge was able to extend across the wide central shaft of the station.
This must have been the control switch for the retractable bridge that Hensleigh had told him about earlier, the bridge that extended out from C-deck, out across the open space in the center of the station.
He looked up: and immediately saw the retractable bridge that spanned the width of the station from either side of C-deck.
Despite the chaos all around him, Shane Schofield kept his eyes locked on the retractable bridge three stories above him.
The bulbous magnetic head of the Maghook thunked into the underside of the retractable steel bridge and stuck there.
The view from the camera on the underside of the retractable bridge on C-deck, looking straight down on E-deck.
The launcher itself was still wedged in between two rungs of the ladder while its rope was stretched taut over the retractable bridge up on C-deck, creating the same pulleylike mechanism that had been used to lower Book into the water.
He looked out over the central shaft, and in a flickering instant, his eyes fell on the retractable bridge on C-deck.
In the ghostly flickering light of the station, Schofield and Kirsty stepped out onto the retractable bridge on C-deck.
Kirsty out in the middle of the shaft, standing in the center of the retractable bridge, while the SAS took up positions on the circular catwalk all around them.
Schofield stood with his feet spread apart out in the middle of the retractable bridge.
For it was then that the two nitrogen charges that Schofield had tied to the ends of the retractable portions of the bridge suddenly and explosively went off.
To the left of the door was an Eastlake cabinet with a retractable tin counter and a built-in flour bin and sifter.
The floors of the first ten levels were all retractable, intended to allow the construction of enormous machinery.
Certainly the creatures were large, and their hands, with the retractable claws, looked both powerful enough and sufficiently dangerous to rip one of the big mammothlike mounts to shreds.