(a.) Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.
(a.) Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.
Example Sentences:
(1) This confirms the findings according to which chromosomal changeability in the NBLD may be associated mostly with the change in the number of homologous chromosomes rather than with chromosomal aberrations.
(2) Malfunctioning pacemaker produced stimuli with changeable amplitude and fast rate.
(3) Sigmoidal kinetics is considered as an adaptive feature of glucokinases to increase the efficiency of the liver uptake of glucose at the changeable concentrations in the blood resulting from variations in the amount of dietary glucose.
(4) Individual changeability is more pronounced in the all cardiac parts at diastole.
(5) In the legal institution of driver's licence on probation the driving licence law relies on the changeability of the driving beginner by means of post-schooling.
(6) Even if Clegg's ideas are proving changeable, the party faithful will ensure he remains a yellow rather than a scarlet or blue pimpernel – any decision that affects party independence will have to be agreed by three-quarters of their MPs.
(7) These findings are in line with the results concerning the dynamics of vigilance and certain claims of earlier authors according to which EEG changeability should be decisive for therapeutic outcome.
(8) One connects it with a form of heterophoria in which the eyes--because of an inacurate and changeable function of binocular vision are unable to exert precise saccadic movements enabling a binocular or precisely unimacular reading.
(9) It was concluded that the histologic Dx of large cell carcinoma was the most inter- and intra-changeable, and the most frequent dissenting Dx from it was poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma.
(10) In regard to the villi, the morphology is locally changeable, with the atrophic-sclerotic areas alternated with hyperplastic areas, but topographically well defined.
(11) The results indicate that even after birth the CSF pathways of babies with spina bifida cystica are in a plastic and changeable condition, with competition between constricting and distending forces.
(12) The encephalic structures are very complex, changeable, labile, therefor her variations can correspond with the "psychologics" variations.
(13) The difference was especially marked for the categories "synthetic - natural", "unpleasant - very tasty", and "changeable - stable in times".
(14) Before collagen pathologic changes occurred, fatty deposits on artery wall were changeable.
(15) Hearing Davies’s description of the moment when plastic emerges from the machine, blown up through a tube like a bubble, expansive and changeable, it is easy to see why plastic bags exert such sway over the popular imagination.
(16) The load level of SR was less changeable than those of SB and SY by the difference of heat treatment temperature.
(17) The study showed changeability of the character of myocardial asynergy under the effect of the drugs investigated, which should be taken into account when these drugs are given to patients with ischemic heart disease.
(18) Apparently amino acid sequences of visual pigments are less changeable than the morphology of the photoreceptor cells in the course of evolution.
(19) Emotion-focused coping was positively related to depression when a stressor was appraised as changeable.
(20) Total activity of HAP was changeable according to the degree of maturation in the case of chum salmon.
(1) Jason Conibear, market analyst at forex specialists, Cambridge Mercantile, argues that Obama will be breathing a sigh of relief, even though US economic growth is slowing: American consumers are getting skittish again, but with the giant economy's output still creeping upwards, politicians and policymakers will find the perfect excuse to do nothing.
(2) Bosnia were dreadfully vulnerable on their left with Lulic often drawn forwards, a situation not helped by the uncharacteristic skittishness of Emir Spahic, the left-sided centre-back, who misplaced a couple of passes in the opening 10 minutes and looked anxious throughout.
(3) Obama, who had been skittish about coming to Copenhagen at all unless it could be cast as a foreign policy success, looked visibly frustrated as he appeared before world leaders.
(4) As Shallow, he “pecks at the lines, nibbles at them like a parrot biting on a nut; for all his age, he darts here and there nimbly enough, even skittishly: forgetting nothing, not even the pleasure of Falstaff’s page, that ‘little tiny thief’.” But if Tynan was enamoured of Olivier, he was also alert to the miniaturist precision of Alec Guinness.
(5) The first episodes show a woman stumbling between responses: refusing punishing treatment that might prolong her life slightly; cartwheeling down corridors; deciding not to tell her family about the diagnosis; flashing her doctor; keeping her juvenile husband at arm's length; and trying desperately, skittishly, to fix her teenage son's brattish behaviour before it's too late.
(6) Cameron Peacock, market analyst at IG Markets, said the financial markets were in "skittish" mood.
(7) Assuming, as still seems likely, that it passes, the odds that the White House will get legislators – who'll already be skittish about how changes to the healthcare system might impact on their re-election chances – to swallow another big pill like that are slim indeed.
(8) For now, it seems the selling is confined to the more skittish market participants, but if the index moves much lower the quiet retreat could turn into an increasingly panicky rout.
(9) Factory's Happy Mondays bound together the exotic new dance rhythms with a groggy Lancastrian verse, and in the movement known as Madchester was born the commercialisation of the abstract, agitating spirit of Factory, and the spirited postmodern skittishness of Wilson.
(10) If they do not assert that clear control, these technology companies risk losing business – not only from skittish consumers, but also from corporate and foreign-government clients.
(11) He learnt the new motions, the vastly swaying skittishness and violence of the revenant rigs.
(12) Matip’s aerial prowess should help improve Liverpool’s ability to defend set-pieces and he is a sound tackler and tidy builder from the back, but what his team need most in the absence of further defensive recruits is an organiser who can somehow instil concentration and calmness into chronically skittish team-mates.
(13) Skittish, exasperating and endearing, yes, but never dull.
(14) Putting in some time behind the till of my family’s shop before Christmas reminded me that the customer is a skittish beast.
(15) I’m not surprised that some [backbenchers] are skittish, because there’s all this stuff in the ether and they don’t have a broad-based package to look at.” Turnbull appeared to step back from the GST proposal during the week, answering questions from Labor on the revenue measure during question time by saying no plans had been finalised.
(16) Speaking at a meeting of the Business Roundtable in Washington, Obama warned Republicans against “playing chicken with an $18tn economy” by threatening a shutdown, especially in “skittish” stock market conditions.
(17) His comments are likely to add to the volatility of already skittish markets.
(18) I had been warned that she had been skittish about agreeing to do media interviews, that she was concerned certain boundaries should not be crossed - which put me doubly on my guard.
(19) Zuckerberg himself made clear that he wasn’t going to loosen his reigns on Facebook, reassuring skittish shareholders that he would continue to serve as the company’s CEO “for many, many years to come”.
(20) Gliding was inhibited on very hydrophobic substrata and skittish on very hydrophilic surfaces.