(a.) Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the cocktails take centre stage and are like drinkable pieces of art – try the margarita or the pisco sour.
(2) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
(3) The recent Spanish legislation on drinkable waters for public use includes a paragraph establishing the requirements to be fulfilled by waters in relation with their radioactivity and the methods to be used to measure it.
(4) Practical tables with the amount of fluoride in Spanish drinkable water, in commonly available infant formulas and mineral bottled waters, are shown.
(5) There are excellent showers, drinkable tap water and road access, but bring a campstove – open fires are banned.
(6) I was heading to Lake Skadar, which straddles Montenegro's border with Albania, and whose water is so clean it's almost drinkable.
(7) The changes in liver metabolism during ethanol oxidation have been well confirmed in many experiments, they nevertheless do not seem to lead to hyperlipoproteinemia in many experimental designs in animals and after drinkable amounts of ethanol in healthy man when lipolysis of adipose tissue is blocked and no food is ingested.
(8) In this suburb there's not garbage dump, drainage and the drinkable water is very contaminated; the deficient hygiene worsen the soul contamination.
(9) It’s a working coffee finca, has Wi-Fi, a swimming pool and drinkable tap water.
(10) The city does not pipe in enough drinkable water, so Jakartans rely largely on wells which extract water from shallow aquifers.
(11) b. consider drinkable water supplies, wastewater disposal and hygienic conditions in houses.
(12) 2002 was an exceptional vintage, and although the champagne is drinkable young, it will be excellent if cellared and then drunk in 20 or even 30 years' time."
(13) The results demonstrated a substantial good hygienic situation of the farms but a bad state of drinkable and irrigation waters.
(14) We spend a little more now, to recoup in the next few decades in the form of breathable air, drinkable water and an atmosphere that doesn't cook us.
(15) A correct balance in the sensory, physical, chemical and bacteriological qualities of water make it drinkable.
(16) All of the union’s assets belong to the union and that includes buildings, other assets tangible and intangible, financial, drinkable and non-drinkable.” The official also suggested there may be a debate over whether the UK can immediately take out its shareholding in the European Investment Bank, given the country’s contractual obligation to keep the institution a going concern.
(17) For this reason, we have organized two measurement campaigns with the objective of characterizing the drinkable waters in an Spanish area, where the radioactive elements concentration in the ground is high.
(18) The chemical composition of 29 of the bottled mineral waters available in the Spanish market are analyzed, including composition of the tap water supplied by Canal de Isabel II, which provides drinkable water to Madrid with a population close to 5 million inhabitants.
(19) Since the tablets were bioequivalent to the drinkable solution, incomplete absorption seems not be a result of the dissolution characteristics of the commercial formulation but rather of a first-pass effect.
(20) In the coastal areas there are shallow wells, groundwater wells, and we should treat the water in those wells to make it drinkable and safe.
Edible
Definition:
(a.) Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.
(n.) Anything edible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Basic foodstuffs, such as flour, sugar and edible oils, are heavily subsidised.
(2) We tested semihardened blends of edible oils, suitable for commercial food manufacture, with a lower-than-conventional saturated fatty acid content, for their effects on plasma cholesterol.
(3) The insecticides did not translocate into the edible parts of the vegetables but were present in the root system of onion and lettuce.
(4) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(5) A simple procedure for the enzymic digestion of edible tissues is described and compared with other procedures.
(6) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(7) The unsuspecting public may not realise that the call to avoid palm oil is nothing more than a trade ploy since in recent years palm oil has been very competitive and has gained a major share of the world's edible oils and fats market.
(8) Culture of Gambusia along with edible fish in village ponds is, therefore, recommended to get the dual benefit of fish production and control of mosquito proliferation in village ponds.
(9) The longterm solution to vitamin A deficiency is community development and increased consumption of dark green edible plants and red and orange fruits.
(10) Beacon Food Forest, Seattle, Washington, US This Seattle project, called the Beacon Food Forest, is turning public land into an edible forest where residents can forage for fruits, pumpkins and nuts.
(11) Two regions of the brain of the edible snail were stimulated.
(12) Evidence is presented which establishes that mackerel fed in captivity can, by relay from contaminated shellfish via sand eels, accumulate paralytic shellfish poisons (PSP) in the edible flesh at a level (250 micrograms saxitoxin equivalents per kg) similar to that in the contaminated shellfish.
(13) Optimal conditions were chosen for cultivation of Escherichia coli 85 cells with a rather high fumarate-hydratase activity on a cheap medium containing no edible raw material.
(14) Variously billed as edible networking, curry induced knowledge exchange, and a good excuse to eat curry and chat social care, the appetite for curry has surpassed all expectations.
(15) Loliware and WikiFoods have had relatively good success since launching their products this year, but whether people will have an appetite for edible technology as the future of sustainable packaging is yet to be determined.
(16) Runner-up: RISC edible roof garden and alternative kitchen garden Jupiter Big Idea Winner: Naturepaint Naturepaint is a totally natural paint product that comes in a powder form.
(17) separable lean, separable fet, and total edible portions of Choice grade cuts of beef is given, as well as a table acids per 100 gm.
(18) The edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus (with locally reported toxic properties) was identified and collected 1-4 days after raining in the city of Baghdad.
(19) Functional movement training avoidance plus edibles and praise produced about 90% attention for the three children, while edibles and praise alone were less effective (eye contact never exceeded 55%).
(20) Nutrient composition and biologic utilization of cooked, dried, and ground meals prepared from fresh and field-dried, green-seeded edible soybeans were evaluated.