What's the difference between feasible and workable?

Feasible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.
  • (a.) Fit to be used or tailed, as land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (2) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.
  • (3) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (4) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
  • (5) Both demonstrated concurrent validity and feasibility.
  • (6) We studied the feasibility of using RNA and DNA from autopsies for Northern and Southern blot analysis.
  • (7) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
  • (8) The feasibility of estimating these parameters, demonstrated by the present study, suggests that a recursive least squares estimation procedure could be used to recover the time variation of each parameter during exercise stress testing of subjects with normal or nearly normal gas exchange.
  • (9) In blood, ablation of porcine aorta was feasible at a distance of 3 mm.
  • (10) Therefore, it is feasible that there is a good correlation with alteration of insulin sensitivity and insulin binding.
  • (11) It appears that irrespective of the elucidation of the nature of the putative aetiological factor (presumed to be viral) in MS, the arrest and reversal of T cell-related events within the CNS in this devastating condition represent feasible goals and should remain a major target for some time to come.
  • (12) The signals after lyophilization reflect biochemical differences between tumour and muscle; spectroscopic data indicate that it is feasible to determine the molecular basis of these differences.
  • (13) If, as in most cases, the feasibility of various methods (exposure to chemical products, monoclonal antibodies and complement-dependent cytolysis, immuno-magnetic procedures) has been confirmed, no study to date has shown the efficacy.
  • (14) The direct measurement of adiposity, using hydrostatic weighing and other techniques, is not feasible in studies involving young children or with large numbers of older subjects.
  • (15) The feasibility of using fluorescent ISH for sexing biopsied embryos in couples at risk of X-linked disease and for the preimplantation diagnosis of chromosome abnormalities is discussed.
  • (16) The DRG principle, however, is feasible and has important management benefits; it is recommended that locally determined DRG weightings be developed, and that other hospitals explore their use in peer review of resource management, costing and pricing.
  • (17) The feasibility of early discharge on the day following surgery was studied in a prospective manner in 29 consecutive breast cancer patients; 27 underwent unilateral modified radical mastectomy and 2 bilateral mastectomies by a single surgeon.
  • (18) Because of the relatively high levels of endogenous TH in tadpoles during climax, the use of an in vivo saturation assay employing [125I]T3 was not feasible.
  • (19) The identification of high-risk patient subgroups is possible, and it is feasible to link this data base with clinical and biochemical data.
  • (20) Significantly, their derivation demonstrates the feasibility of immortalizing differentiated neurons by targeting tumorigenesis in transgenic mice to specific neurons of the CNS.

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.