What's the difference between passable and satisfactory?

Passable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.
  • (a.) Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.
  • (a.) Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results were compared with perceptual judgments of "passability" under static and moving viewing conditions.
  • (2) After computing admission rates by district per 1000 population, these were plotted against distance from the hospital by the only passable roads.
  • (3) In 40.9% the therapeutic results are satisfactory with normalization of blood pressure, whereas in 27.1%, are only passable.
  • (4) Of 28 renal units 25 (89%) were rendered free of stones or had passable calculi of less than 3 mm.
  • (5) Out of the root canals which were apically not passable and coronally closed the first traces of the instilled 5% hydrogen peroxide appeared after 14 min 45 sec on the root surface.
  • (6) Failures were due to upward dislodgement of the stone in 5 cases, to grasp or disintegrate the stone in 2, perforation of the ureter in 2, bleeding from the ureteral wall in 2 cases, to reintroduce guidewire in the ureter and to non-passable stricture below the stone in 1 case each.
  • (7) Out of the patients who underwent EPCN before SWL 13% were stone free and without drainage at discharge, 77% had passable stone fragments at discharge and drainage has been taken out at 15-30 days check up, 10% had unbroken stone and underwent with drainage to ureterolithotripsy.
  • (8) Even presented with a more than passable opportunity to snatch a point at the death, when Daniel Sturridge played a pass over the Southampton defence to allow Raheem Sterling to run clear on goal, the substitute came up with a wretched first touch to practically pass the ball to Artur Boruc.
  • (9) Photograph: PR company handout Creatively, it’s all a bit uninspiring, but there are passable moments.
  • (10) At the second hearing, the stern judge who had been doing a passable impression of Anne Robinson for much of the hearing appeared visibly troubled by Harris's emotional plea to be set free.She told the translator to tell Harris to "be calm", and asked if she would like a break in proceedings to compose herself.
  • (11) The cumulative analysis within 10 years after operations have shown 27% of endarectomized arteries to remain passable.
  • (12) With this form of pathology 68% of arteries are found to be passable within 10 postoperative years.
  • (13) In addition, the CSA was filtratable (0.45 mu), dialyzable, and passable through an Amicon PM10 filter, which indicated a molecular weight less than 10,000.
  • (14) Seventy percent of the patients with renal stones and 95% of those with ureteral stones were stone-free over the one-month follow-up, while about 15% had small and asymptomatic fragments believed to be passable spontaneously.
  • (15) At more increasing mean temperature rises 0.49 degrees C and 0.58 degrees C, increasing pyrogenic and decreasing 'passable' qualifications were obtained.
  • (16) The Howards method of anastomosis was used with prolene thread under fourfold magnification along with a spermiogram and a test of passability of the sperm duct.
  • (17) We have five special engineering trains out checking that lines are passable, and in the Highlands we have a helicopter out inspecting lines.
  • (18) The relatively well documented transcellular route is passable for compounds with a low molecular mass (up to about 2000 Da) and sufficient lipid as well as water solubility.
  • (19) Being a good dad and being a passable, decent husband is something that weighs on me."
  • (20) France has long claimed Rwanda as part of its francophone fold even though there is only one language common to all citizens of the tiny central African nation — the indigenous Kinyarwanda — and only a minority of the population speak passable French.

Satisfactory


Definition:

  • (a.) Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.
  • (a.) Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
  • (2) Moreover, one may expect satisfactory results in most cases.
  • (3) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
  • (4) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
  • (5) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
  • (6) Most of our adults with myelomeningocele had satisfactory sexual function.
  • (7) The isolation procedure leads to enzymes with high specific activities in satisfactory yields.
  • (8) Hospitalisation time was short and satisfactory alimentation was achieved.
  • (9) Generally the course of symptoms was more favorable, when people found a satisfactory job.
  • (10) Group 1 (n = 19) had mean HbA1 during months 3-48 in the normal range of less than 7.8% (near-normoglycaemic control), Group 2 (n = 18) showed moderately elevated mean HbA1 between 7.8 and 8.5% (satisfactory control), and Group 3 (n = 18) had clearly elevated mean HbA1 of greater than or equal to 8.6% (poor control).
  • (11) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
  • (12) Mean VCF (sens 83 percent, spec 80 percent), %S (sens 50 percent, spec 96 percent), EFC (senc 58 percent, spec 96 percent), and EFQ (sens 58 percent, spec 92 percent) were less satisfactory.
  • (13) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
  • (14) The large number of pancreas tests recommended today shows that no single method is satisfactory.
  • (15) In the remaining 122, the system worked well and the majority of patients obtained satisfactory analgesia.
  • (16) Long-term results of treatment of gunshot wounds of the liver are not considered to be satisfactory.
  • (17) A satisfactory antisialogogue effect was seen in 83-90% of each group.
  • (18) As liquid medium gave satisfactory and quicker results the subsequent 1904 samples were cultured only on liquid medium to determine its usefulness in routine work.
  • (19) The technique has proved satisfactory in 2 patients.
  • (20) Fetal outcome was, however, satisfactory in all cases.