What's the difference between eatable and ratable?
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.
Ratable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value.
(a.) Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable estate.
(a.) Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments.