What's the difference between doable and workable?

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.

Workable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This schedule appears workable in the community setting and yields response rates similar to those reported for 5-FU with high-dose leucovorin, but without the gastroin testinal toxicity profile of the latter combination.
  • (2) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
  • (3) Although both systems are workable, improved catheters for the administration of intraperitoneal chemotherapy are warranted.
  • (4) There are solutions to this and it is to be hoped that a more workable amendment will be laid very soon.
  • (5) Pender's health promotion model is presented as a workable model on which to base healthy dietary intake programs, and three programs that have used elements similar to this model are presented, one in detail.
  • (6) Developing a workable system and investing the time to carry it through has many positive outcomes for both the manager and the nursing staff.
  • (7) A workable alternative policy would be a development program marked by labor-intensive industra lization, nonelite education systems, and the erosion of traditional sex ist roles, thereby undermining the basis for large families.
  • (8) It can be placed at the time of original surgery and is also workable in patients who have had radiation and extensive radical surgery with total reconstruction of their gullet.
  • (9) Such a climate of personal responsibility could be created if doctors, educators and policy-makers agreed on some workable, positive goals and steps that would help meet realistic national goals over a defined period of time.
  • (10) Is it possible that in the end we just won’t arrive at a workable agreement?
  • (11) Only by developing a comprehensive stress-accident model will comprehensive and workable accident prevention programs be developed to replace the current patchwork of existing programs.
  • (12) Partly as the result of legislative changes made in 1975 and 1977, Texas has a workable system for dealing with mentally abnormal offenders and assessing the dangerousness of committed offenders.
  • (13) But the MPs go further and suggest that if none of the mitigating proposals currently being examined prove workable, Osborne should rethink the plans from scratch, buying time by pausing the proposed reforms entirely for a year.
  • (14) "This is a significant report for the creative industries, taking steps to establish workable systems of copyright in an online age and to preserve choice of public service content."
  • (15) But the commission said that Britain had not presented any "credible and workable plan" for meeting air quality standards by 2015.
  • (16) (1) A workable proton-pump mechanism does not require large protein conformational changes.
  • (17) The therapist's possible counter-transference motives in treating the patient are explored, and a workable solution is offered.
  • (18) The "teenager" has proved a highly workable rite of passage for the past 70 years.
  • (19) In 50 years of nuclear power, nobody has come up with a workable plan for the million years that safety regulations demand.
  • (20) Varying the importance of these characteristics gives us a workable function-generation tool, able to address a variety of clinical needs.