What's the difference between doable and feasible?

Doable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being done.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
  • (2) The system is broken, it needs reform, I think it is much more desirable and doable if we do it one step at a time, working towards where we have common ground."
  • (3) "It [the planned spending reduction] is doable if the government has got the political will, but it will be difficult.
  • (4) In countries with well-developed logistic networks and extensive market penetration, reaching poor customers is tough but doable.
  • (5) It is doable,” said Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish.
  • (6) It’s doable, but still leaves the basic problem intact.
  • (7) Yes, it has to be worth doing – it has to be worth doing – but it has to be doable.
  • (8) Still, I accept that what’s desirable is not always doable especially when times are tough and budgets are tight.
  • (9) "These new findings show that the potential to improve the sector's environmental performance is significant – and that realising that potential is indeed doable," said Ren Wang, FAO assistant director general for agriculture and consumer protection.
  • (10) They may be more wary when they study Cameron’s determined optimism in the speech that a deal is “doable” or the remarkably warm feelings he expressed about immigration multiculturalism, diversity and the openness.
  • (11) When I take a look at what David Cameron has proposed, I think some of them are doable and some of them are more difficult, and it will take some time to really go into detail and to discuss that,” Rutte said.
  • (12) "The research community is still going towards trying to produce major breakthroughs, but if you do the economics, you have to move forward things that are actually doable.
  • (13) Photograph: Stephen Candy What links the festival’s interactive activities and workshops, says Pickthall, is that they are “quite subversive, doable, but connected to local places”.
  • (14) Brexit has changed the political landscape and suddenly made leaving the convention doable.
  • (15) A deal is doable and desirable, because at heart the Korean issue is not about absolutist ideology or faith or race or even weapons proliferation.
  • (16) He admitted the hurdles would be “hard” to achieve, but doable.
  • (17) After this, it is really difficult to say how the NHS will get through 2014-15, and 2015-16 does not look doable", Charlesworth added.
  • (18) The Tory leader insisted his plans were "doable and credible".
  • (19) The mothers' descriptions suggest that they selected activities that were doable and that they could integrate into their daily routines and interactions.
  • (20) Hitting the target depended on salmon companies agreeing to invest the millions needed to build the extra sites, he said: "I think it's doable but I can't guarantee it.

Feasible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.
  • (a.) Fit to be used or tailed, as land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (2) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.
  • (3) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (4) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
  • (5) Both demonstrated concurrent validity and feasibility.
  • (6) We studied the feasibility of using RNA and DNA from autopsies for Northern and Southern blot analysis.
  • (7) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
  • (8) The feasibility of estimating these parameters, demonstrated by the present study, suggests that a recursive least squares estimation procedure could be used to recover the time variation of each parameter during exercise stress testing of subjects with normal or nearly normal gas exchange.
  • (9) In blood, ablation of porcine aorta was feasible at a distance of 3 mm.
  • (10) Therefore, it is feasible that there is a good correlation with alteration of insulin sensitivity and insulin binding.
  • (11) It appears that irrespective of the elucidation of the nature of the putative aetiological factor (presumed to be viral) in MS, the arrest and reversal of T cell-related events within the CNS in this devastating condition represent feasible goals and should remain a major target for some time to come.
  • (12) The signals after lyophilization reflect biochemical differences between tumour and muscle; spectroscopic data indicate that it is feasible to determine the molecular basis of these differences.
  • (13) If, as in most cases, the feasibility of various methods (exposure to chemical products, monoclonal antibodies and complement-dependent cytolysis, immuno-magnetic procedures) has been confirmed, no study to date has shown the efficacy.
  • (14) The direct measurement of adiposity, using hydrostatic weighing and other techniques, is not feasible in studies involving young children or with large numbers of older subjects.
  • (15) The feasibility of using fluorescent ISH for sexing biopsied embryos in couples at risk of X-linked disease and for the preimplantation diagnosis of chromosome abnormalities is discussed.
  • (16) The DRG principle, however, is feasible and has important management benefits; it is recommended that locally determined DRG weightings be developed, and that other hospitals explore their use in peer review of resource management, costing and pricing.
  • (17) The feasibility of early discharge on the day following surgery was studied in a prospective manner in 29 consecutive breast cancer patients; 27 underwent unilateral modified radical mastectomy and 2 bilateral mastectomies by a single surgeon.
  • (18) Because of the relatively high levels of endogenous TH in tadpoles during climax, the use of an in vivo saturation assay employing [125I]T3 was not feasible.
  • (19) The identification of high-risk patient subgroups is possible, and it is feasible to link this data base with clinical and biochemical data.
  • (20) Significantly, their derivation demonstrates the feasibility of immortalizing differentiated neurons by targeting tumorigenesis in transgenic mice to specific neurons of the CNS.