What's the difference between doable and possible?

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.

Possible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
  • (3) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
  • (4) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
  • (5) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
  • (6) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (7) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (8) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (9) This induction is sensitive to actinomycin D but not to protein synthesis inhibitor puromycin, indicating an effect of estradiol at the transcriptional level, possibly mediated by the estrogen receptor.
  • (10) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
  • (11) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
  • (12) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (13) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
  • (14) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
  • (15) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
  • (16) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
  • (17) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
  • (18) A possible role for mitochondria in myocardial adenosine production is discussed.
  • (19) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
  • (20) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.