(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.
Spoilt
Definition:
() of Spoil
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the stories that took hold about the Klebolds after the shooting was that they were rich, and that Dylan’s violent behaviour was an extreme version of a spoilt child’s petulance.
(2) There's an irony here: Bausch was so influential they'll be spoilt for choice if they want choreographers like her.
(3) Veruca Salt from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is spoilt.
(4) A series of 75 spoilt soft lenses with opacities (mostly manifesting as discrete spots or as large areas of cloudiness, chalk-white in appearance) were subjected to histochemical, electron microscopical, electron probe x-ray microanalytical, x-ray diffraction, atomic absorption spectro-photometric, and biochemical analyses.
(5) Iknow other mothers probably think my son is spoilt, that I indulge him more than they do their own kids.
(6) Brendan Rodgers was not being spoilt afterwards when he said his team should have scored more and there was something revealing about the way Wenger took off Özil, Olivier Giroud and Nacho Monreal in one triple substitution.
(7) At Bodenham you are spoilt for choice, with long sandy beaches and river pools [see footnote].
(8) "This policy has so many downsides – it violates natural law, it makes kids spoilt and thankless," she said.
(9) Some felt it was the most likable she had ever been while others believed it to be evidence that she was nothing but a spoilt brat.
(10) The shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, said on Twitter : "Some of these Tories are foul-mouthed spoilt little brats and now one caught by the Sun."
(11) I was really spoilt for choice, torn between a lentil and watercress salad with an unusual citrussy dressing, and buttery purple sprouting broccoli on toast, but on a sunny day, thejameskitchen's lively, punchy green soup seemed so perfectly spring-like I couldn't resist.
(12) It's there now and the incessant whingeing of lazy spoilt people is drowning out the big match atmosphere.
(13) "Seb is a person of such talent that he is spoilt for choice," said Jowell.
(14) Spain , though, are spoilt for choice when it comes to central midfielders of class and achievement.
(15) As far as politicised literature and literary criticism went, the Russian intelligentsia were spoilt for choice.
(16) On the official memorial page set up by her brother James he wrote: "I fell asleep on the track lolz," and posted images of her with text saying she was spoilt.
(17) For him, and a growing number of his generation, the south is a refuge from the insane consumerism of America's coastal cities, a less-spoilt idyll, where roots run deep.
(18) She used to be just a rich society girl: thin, blonde, with a sharp tongue and a reputation for being spoilt.
(19) Which is possibly why we "onlies" have such a bad rep. We're either spoilt brash extroverts or loner introverts, selfish to the core.
(20) They’re acting like spoilt children in a playground, who don’t want to hear that playing with matches could burn down the school.