What's the difference between datable and eatable?
Datable
Definition:
(a.) That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although it should be borne in mind that other genetic mechanisms such as somatic mutations or chimerism may give rise to the same linear pattern, the datable embryologic event of X-inactivation seems most suitable to explain the origin and nature of the lines of Blaschko.
(2) When datable paleogeographic events reflect ancient divisions of faunas, a lower bound on the divergence time of species within a fauna can be established based on the geologic, rather than fossil, record.
(3) Some marls and calcretes are also datable using isochron methods, whereas dates on molluscan shells, bones and teeth are less reliable.
Eatable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.
(n.) Something fit to be eaten.
Example Sentences:
(1) The element intake is calculated from the cobalt content in raw foods after elimination of the non-eatable moiety by flame atomic absorption spectroscopy, after formation of a chelate with ammonium pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (APDC) and extraction with 4-methyl-2-pentanone (MIBK) according to a procedure developed and verified in a previous paper.
(2) The eatables were investigated at a 2% concentration.
(3) He criticised the food provided to him during his incarceration which he described as "un-eatable."
(4) Heat treatment under these conditions was found to reduce the biological value of the eatables.
(5) He has previously said the food he was given was "un-eatable" .
(6) Tetrahymena pyriformis strain W was used as the testing subject for the determination of the biological value of selected eatables.
(7) The mercury content of 16 eatable mushroom species from different geographical areas was determined by flameless atomic absorption spectroscopy.
(8) Part of the test eatables was subjected to heat treatment at 0.1 MPa and at the temperature of 121 degrees C for 120 minutes.