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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tangible
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 prospect of a tangible reward for their efforts.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ The silence as she lifts the lid is almost tangible.
▪ Their approval was so strong it was almost tangible, filling the big cluttered studio with sound.
▪ The silence closed in around her and her loneliness was almost tangible.
▪ The atmosphere of neglect and abandonment was almost tangible.
▪ This, the second largest city in Bavaria, is an unusual mix of ancient architecture and almost tangible joie-de-vivre.
▪ By the early 1970s there was an almost tangible atmosphere of guilt by association.
▪ The words would hang in the air; they were almost tangible on the day after a row.
less
▪ What sticks in the brain, and occasionally the heart, is something much less tangible.
▪ From the point of view of the school or college there could be a number of more or less tangible advantages.
▪ I would argue that they are as charismatic as chefs and yet their skills are less tangible and harder to gauge.
more
▪ Pain of a rather more tangible nature brought about Ricky Ellcock's tragically premature retirement.
▪ And more tangible than celebrity too.
▪ Support was also there in a more tangible way.
▪ Winning also brings more tangible rewards.
most
▪ There is comfort to be had in sticking with what is most tangible.
▪ But more, the offer recognized, in the most tangible and generous terms, all he had achieved at Midvale.
■ NOUN
asset
▪ Fixed Assets Fixed assets capitalised during the year amount to £865,000 of which £700,000 relates to tangible assets and £165,000 to investments.
▪ Stocks and bonds finance tangible assets such as factories and machinery.
▪ Any permanent impairment of tangible assets identified is written off.
▪ In rich families that have substantial inherited wealth, assets may be primarily in the form of claims on tangible assets.
▪ He left the house, his only tangible asset, jointly to my aunt and myself.
▪ Investors bought into tangible assets and sought return from income.
▪ Net tangible assets were £49.2 million.
▪ Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost or valuation of tangible assets other than freehold land over their estimated useful lives.
benefit
▪ Life-chances include income, perks and pensions, together with less tangible benefits such as security or good working conditions.
▪ Once again, being informed is a tangible benefit.
▪ The employer had, therefore, to incur heavy development costs before any net tangible benefits would accrue from the invention.
▪ It must have tangible benefits for the unemployed and the community.
▪ Successful motivation depends on emphasising positive tangible benefits.
▪ Perform a cost-benefit analysis: identify intangible and tangible benefits and costs before putting in the required resources.
▪ Unless they can make themselves more relevant and deliver some tangible benefits, they face going out of business.
evidence
▪ Of course not; they are the tangible evidence of a Government's full commitment to one of the country's major industries.
▪ The institution also provided patients with tangible evidence that society feared the disease.
▪ It was realised that our first aim should be to secure more tangible evidence and, if possible, further witnesses.
▪ Company patronage is tangible evidence that the companies are committed to high standards of professional management.
▪ In trying to conceal his negligence the projectionist had provided me with tangible evidence of the grand illusion.
▪ In the absence of more tangible evidence, the argument regarding possible harmful effects on children can be ignored.
form
▪ For them, the challenge is in solving the problem - in putting the solution into a tangible form.
object
▪ The major product is information, not tangible objects like stocks of goods which are easier to evaluate.
▪ But what of the mode of existence of tangible objects?
▪ As a general rule, if you purchase a tangible object, it will be included in the price.
proof
▪ It represented tangible proof of her achievements after years of struggle in a male-dominated profession.
property
▪ A definition of family property that is restricted to claims on tangible property is weighted heavily toward the concerns of rich families.
result
▪ Through his worldwide correspondence Miller had gained tangible results and rare commendation from the Apothecaries.
▪ He had worked hard all his life, and hard work always gave him tangible results.
▪ Once again the rhetoric failed to produce tangible results.
▪ The return of Magic had another tangible result.
▪ Few reports produce tangible results, many are drivel, most are soon dead or dying.
▪ Schedule conferences at least once a week to discuss the tangible results of the students' efforts.
▪ But his drive to reform the bank is already producing tangible results.
▪ With services that have clear and tangible results, such as street maintenance and job training, this is not difficult.
reward
▪ Extrinsic rewards Those tangible rewards that probably attract most of us into the workforce in the first place.
▪ It is also helpful to use tangible rewards.
▪ Most of the time they will not need a tangible reward like an extra sweet or a trip to the park.
▪ Winning also brings more tangible rewards.
▪ Many of the tangible rewards of diplomatic life changed little, at least in the seventeenth century.
▪ Teaching well takes time and often yields little tangible reward.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ tangible personal property
▪ The discussions produced no tangible results.
▪ There is no tangible evidence of dishonesty among the company's directors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Defense, education and tax cuts are tangible issues for Bush officials that they link to popular campaign promises.
▪ Finally, it also is tangible satisfaction when I get around to using it because I remember the work put into it.
▪ Groups seem to be most successful when undertaking tangible projects, as Black Mountain was when building its second campus.
▪ Macca converted this and the relief was tangible.
▪ Most of its business is solving problems rather than manufacturing tangible products.
▪ The passion of the writing was so tangible she almost cried.
▪ The silence as she lifts the lid is almost tangible.
▪ What sticks in the brain, and occasionally the heart, is something much less tangible.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tangible

Tangible \Tan"gi*ble\, a. [L. tangibilis, fr. tangere to touch: cf. F. tangible. See Tangent.]

  1. Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
    --Bacon.

  2. Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident. ``A tangible blunder.''
    --Byron.

    Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others.
    --Southey. [1913 Webster] -- Tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- Tan"gi*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tangible

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 of "able to be realized or dealt with" is from 1709. Related: Tangibly.

Wiktionary
tangible

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.

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WordNet
tangible

  1. adj. perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch; "skin with a tangible roughness" [ant: intangible]

  2. possible to be treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor" [syn: real]

  3. (of especially business assets) having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value ; "tangible property like real estate"; "tangible assets such as machinery" [ant: intangible]

  4. capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt; "a barely palpable dust"; "felt sudden anger in a palpable wave"; "the air was warm and close--palpable as cotton" [syn: palpable] [ant: impalpable]

  5. having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses; "a physical manifestation"; "surrounded by tangible objects" [syn: physical, touchable]

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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.