(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.
Saleable
Definition:
(adv.) Alt. of Saleably
Example Sentences:
(1) Moves to make clothes wearable for longer, while ensuring they remain fashionable and saleable, are now underway.
(2) He hoped that in time the technology would benefit the farming community and produce a saleable product.
(3) Use of direct contact condensers could permit efficient emission control if coupled to processes that produce saleable quantities of purified carbon dioxide and elemental sulfur.
(4) Obesity was a feature of faster growing fowls which matured earlier, consumed more, utilised food less efficiently for egg production and produced fewer saleable eggs.
(5) That only serves to increase the ceaseless pressure on reporters to obtain crowd-pleasing, saleable stories.
(6) The observed differences in livability at 6 wk of age could increase the number of saleable broilers by 10 to 15 thousand per million chicks placed.
(7) The company expects Hotzel mines to ramp up to a saleable production rate of 2.9m tonnes per annum and said the redundancies, optimised mine plans and restructuring initiatives were expected to reduce Rand-dominated mine gate costs.
(8) Some token “bomb in a box”, a missile in a silo that keeps the UK nominally a nuclear power, might be politically saleable.
(9) English country houses are incredibly saleable, everyone around the planet recognises them”.
(10) "The government is hanging around and waiting for a share price increase … the government should get into a saleable position as soon as possible," he added.
(11) These marriages are dissoluble if she fails to please, but the woman is no longer saleable.
(12) Money can be made by separating the income flows from the actual business of care and packaging them as saleable investment instruments – securitisation.
(13) And after a week of internal dissent over the possible rise in the GST, Turnbull articulated the government’s central dilemma : finding a way to achieve its stated aim of using the tax changes to boost economic growth while also delivering the compensation and personal income tax cuts that would make it fair and politically saleable.
(14) Instead of talking about Jewish conspiracies and racial purity, he would use "saleable words such as freedom, security, identity, democracy".
(15) But Rik Ferguson, a computer security consultant at Trend Micro, said: "This has all the hallmarks of commercial criminal activity going for a saleable commodity.
(16) West Ham will surely become very saleable, in its brand new iconic stadium, built for the Games that were going to inspire a generation.
(17) In the days when you couldn't evict a tenant without good reason, having to sell your property with incumbent sitting tenants considerably reduced its value and saleability.
(18) On the basis of the microbiological (3) and chemical findings and of the sensorial evaluation of colour, consistency, odour and taste of egg whites and yolks, the following storage times were determined for eggs in the quality class "saleable" requiring an overall rating not lower than 6 (satisfactory): 14 to 16 days, for non-lacquered eggs stored at 4 degrees C and for lacquered eggs at 20 degrees C whereas 5 days were found to be the maximum storage time for untreated eggs stored at 20 degrees C. If boiled eggs are stored in pure carbon dioxide at 20 degrees C, a distinct quality loss is observed already after a few days.
(19) He has not thrived in a summer of overseas emergencies, despite confidence in Downing Street that statesmanlike composure is the prime minister’s most saleable quality.
(20) And you might argue that because you contributed to the saleability of that movie, and its success, you deserve to.” Instinctively he feels that the back-end deal is the morally sounder option.