(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.
Shackle
Definition:
(n.) Stubble.
(n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.
(n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
(n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
(n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.
(n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
(n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
(v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
(v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
(v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
Example Sentences:
(1) They will demand that the shackles be taken off local authorities so they can tackle a homelessness crisis.
(2) Shackles were found in the cellar, and yesterday police found a trap door.
(3) Shackling and ‘a full strip search’ On the morning of 21 October 2013, LaTonia Wilson was pulling out of her mechanic’s garage with her husband, Atheris Mann; her eldest son, Jessie Patrick; and their two-year-old son Marquise.
(4) How Chicago police used pot to disappear young people at Homan Square Read more Davis, a Democrat who represents the neighborhood that includes the Homan Square site, had until Wednesday only said publicly that he would “strongly support” a federal inquiry into what 11 detainees – in strikingly similar detailed accounts provided to the Guardian – have described as extended interrogation without access to legal counsel or their families, often while shackled.
(5) On this evidence, the shackles, in place ever since that World Cup in France, finally appear to be off.
(6) It is modern slavery enforced not through shackles and whips, but by fiddled contracts, missing permits and paperwork and the Guardian has found it happening just down the road from the desert palace of Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Khalifa al-Thani.
(7) Mané, in particular, has become erratic, while Tadic has suffered from the fact that opponents have studied him after his sparkling start to the campaign and increased their efforts to shackle him, partially by curtailing the ability of Southampton’s flying full-backs to support him down the flanks.
(8) Military policy Victory on Sunday will boost attempts by Abe and his fellow conservatives to further loosen the political shackles on Japan’s self-defence forces – actually a highly trained, well-equipped army, navy and air force.
(9) The NHS has experienced numerous attempts to free staff from the shackles of unnecessary paperwork to allow more time for patient care.
(10) The blindfold, shackles, threats and beatings were just the white noise of his ordeal, he says.
(11) Second, its shackled to historicism, constantly looking to the past.
(12) We face the prospect of a week of party manifestos full of reckless promises unbelieved by electors yet shackling future chancellors.
(13) It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to,” he tweeted .
(14) I would love to see the selection criteria for that job.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest From a blindfolded boat ride to threats against his family members and hours shackled to Gitmo floors, Zuley’s interrogation of Mohamedou Ould Slahi shocked investigators.
(15) "He was not only able to break the shackles of bigotry and bias and hate, but he did it without internalising the battles he was fighting."
(16) In March, Gambian president Yahya Jammeh announced plans to throw off the shackles of the colonial past by discontinuing the use of English as an official language .
(17) Sir Edward Leigh, a former minister, said breaking up the coalition would be one way of showing fed-up Conservative voters that Cameron was serious about addressing their concerns, instead of being shackled to the Liberal Democrats .
(18) But even allowing for that fact, and the long-known departure of Lampard, this will undoubtedly be a summer of upheaval for last season’s champions, not least with Uefa looking increasingly likely to loosen the shackles of financial fair play.
(19) Not only are their pay and rations fixed centrally but their revenue is shackled.
(20) When she fled the violence of Honduras and settled with relatives in Atlanta, Gutiérrez, 31, met regularly with immigration officials and wore an electronic ankle shackle, so they could track her.