(a.) Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.
(a.) Not capable of being brought to do or perform, because morally strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.
(a.) Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit; as, incapable of pain, or pleasure; incapable of stain or injury.
(a.) Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government.
(a.) As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.
(n.) One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absorption of this serum with embryo cells eliminated cytotoxicity against MCA-2 and MCA-12 cells, but was incapable of lowering the titer against MCA-3 cells below 1:40.
(2) CP analogues that lacked the NH group at N3 or were otherwise incapable of alkyl isocyanate release were inactive.
(3) An analysis of 22 non-invasive EPEC TnphoA mutants revealed that seven have insertions in the EAF plasmid and are incapable of localized adherence.
(4) Exact comparisons of recovery of ocular tone (Maddox Wing test) between the anaesthetics were not possible as both Althesin and methohexitone rendered some patients incapable of taking the tests in the early post-operative period.
(5) Similarly, the fetus is an ideal recipient of allogeneic fetal cells as it is incapable of rejecting them early in gestation.
(6) Myocardial perfusion is best evaluated at rest and during exercise, however, alternative methods have been sought to increase coronary blood flow in patients incapable of performing adequate exercise.
(7) Cocaine was considered incapable of producing dependence in 1980 but was recently proclaimed the drug of greatest national health concern.
(8) We have documented that the profoundly depressed postcardiotomy left ventricle, initially incapable of ejection, can recover during total left ventricular unloading with the abdominal left ventricular assist device support over a seven-day period.
(9) Results are presented which show that the D-xylose isomerases present in Streptomyces olivaceus and Streptomyces phaeochromogenes NRRL B-3559 are incapable of utilizing D-lyxose as a substrate.
(10) In contrast, all three molecules were incapable of inducing IFN-alpha when added into either purified monocyte or lymphocyte cultures.
(11) Extracts of liver and lung were incapable of catabolizing any of the analogues.
(12) In fact the then president, Amadou Toumani Touré, known as "ATT" more out of derision than any sense of affection, was viewed as deeply corrupt and incapable of delivering the changes that Mali – still one of the five least-developed countries in the world – needed.
(13) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
(14) I seem incapable of capturing the stories of those I meet.
(15) It can bring about specialized transduction of proAB and phoE mutants of E. coli, but it is incapable of general transduction.
(16) It said Damascus had proved itself "incapable of using its weapons systems proportionately or discriminately" and had fired lethal Scud missiles against its own cities, such as Aleppo.
(17) In the 1990s he was almost incapable of not writing a masterpiece – The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, I Married a Communist.
(18) Methaemoglobin is incapable of transporting oxygen.
(19) Sheep infection trials indicate that the PLD-negative C. pseudotuberculosis strain (Toxminus) is incapable of inducing caseous lymphadentis (cheesy gland) even at doses two logs higher than that at which the wild-type strain produces the disease.
(20) Cotransformants of yeast cells by two partially homologous plasmids, one of which is incapable of autonomous replication, has been used to construct multiply marked recombinant plasmids.
Intangible
Definition:
(a.) Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
(2) The FT explains: Billions of dollars of intangible assets will enter the gross domestic product of the world’s largest economy in a revision aimed at capturing the changing nature of US output..... At present, R&D counts as a cost of doing business, so the final output of Apple iPads is included in GDP but the research done to create them is not.
(3) The intangible benefits include easy access to health care and time-saving convenience.
(4) The operative technique is described together with its intangible principles, its difficulties and its variants.
(5) Climate change is a notoriously intangible risk for people to grasp.
(6) This paper discusses in qualitative terms these tangible and intangible benefits and the factors that impact their realization and maximization.
(7) Pragmatism may have triumphed once again over idealism on the legislative floor, yet something intangible snapped these past few days in the fevered corridors of Congress.
(8) The EDPRS is not a document that collects dust in ministerial offices nor does it contain vague or intangible commitments.
(9) Sharing a tournament between two countries inevitably reduces the event's cultural identity, an intangible quality that grows more precious in the memory.
(10) Yoga , the mind-body discipline based on ancient Indian philosophy and now practised all over the world, has joined Unesco’s list of intangible world heritage.
(11) There is growing acceptance of the intangible benefits of computerization in the laboratory.
(12) Under federal anti-fraud statute , Harvard law professor John Coates told the site, “it is a federal crime to conspire with anyone, including a foreign government, to ‘deprive another of the intangible right of honest services’.” “That would include fixing a fraudulent election, in my view, within the plain meaning of the statute,” Coates said.
(13) Maybe, for all that this most cocksure of champions has the intangible aura only the sporting gods know, he also needs the love and reassurance of others.
(14) I know the history of the game so I knew how many rings he has won as a coach and how he was a player at Kentucky – and all those other intangibles that go with a great career like he's had.
(15) And since I am pretty determined here to prove that like proponents of Sopa I "don't understand the internet" , can I also wonder about something more intangible?
(16) Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian One travel story we’ve enjoyed from the web this week is Unesco’s “intangible heritage list” , which was brought to our attention by Rough Guides .
(17) The bank, run as a public-private partnership, would have several tasks: developing insurance schemes to underwrite the value of intangible assets, as well as mentoring UK businesses and players in the financial sector, including banks and venture capitalists.
(18) But despite the burgeoning value of intangible assets, most financial institutions don't know how to value them, according to David Martin, an intellectual property expert.
(19) Although Unesco is best known for designating world heritage sites such as the Great Wall of China, the agency also recommends safeguarding the intangible heritage represented by traditions and oral expressions, rituals and festive events, traditional craftsmanship, music, dances and traditional performing arts.
(20) Its estimate of benefits and of 74,000 jobs includes such intangibles as people being employed in local shops to sell sweets to the site's security guards.