What's the difference between reachable and teachable?

Reachable


Definition:

  • (a.) Being within reach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
  • (2) In the second experiment, the subject's task was to perceive the distance reachable with the entire rod if it were held at its proximal end.
  • (3) If the economy pans out as he currently expects, tax revenues come in as he expects, it might be just about reachable, but only at the cost of really big cuts in things like the Home Office, local government and other departments.” The bulk of the political focus will be trained on how Osborne, blocked by a twin revolt in the House of Lords and on his own backbenches, recalibrates his plan to slash £4.4bn from the tax credits bill next April.
  • (4) Leros and Astipalea are reachable by ferry but also have flights from Athens and some of other of the large islands.
  • (5) Just south of the Arctic Circle, the sun doesn’t even set in Usinsk in the summer, and it’s reachable by car only when rivers freeze to make “winter roads”.
  • (6) We look out over another mountain, we look out over ocean, we look down to what I would like to say is a secret beach but I’m sure all the locals know about it – reachable only by climbing up and down a mountain then bush bashing for a bit.
  • (7) They show people in white jump suits working at the bottom of the gully reportedly about 10m deep and reachable only with the help of ropes.
  • (8) The protesters' overarching battle cry is that "the runway must go", but first they want a two-hour extension of the 11pm-5am flight ban, and a ban on all flights to and from destinations reachable by train in four hours or less.
  • (9) It has taken more than a month to come up with the final tally, after a laborious process of collecting votes from far-flung areas reachable only by plane or donkey, counting millions of ballot papers and sifting through hundreds of fraud allegations.
  • (10) Widely varying initial and final positions were used, so that the movements studied encompassed much of the reachable work space within the horizontal plane.
  • (11) After conventional endoscopic polypectomy of all reachable lesions, peroperative endoscopic polypectomy is scheduled.
  • (12) Not all of Ai’s heroes are reachable, of course; Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Prize be damned, is still incommunicado in a prison in Liaoning.
  • (13) To calculate estimates for this reachable set, a number of numerical methods that entail the solution to one or more global optimization problems are developed.
  • (14) Ostia Antica, less than 30km from Rome and reachable by train, offers an altogether more civilised (and arguably more instructive) experience.
  • (15) However, data from the intervention phase revealed a significantly higher rate of appointment-keeping for those patients who were contacted (44%) than for patients who were not reachable (20%).
  • (16) Wild goats graze on clifftops and there are ruins of a monastery, reachable through trekking routes.
  • (17) In Experiment 1, in which the subject's task was to perceive the distance reachable with the portion of the rod forward of the hand, perceived extent was a function of the first moment of the mass distribution associated with the forward portion of the rod, and indifferent to the first moment of the entire rod.
  • (18) By voluntary or imposed controls on fees, malpractice premiums, case mix selection, and hospital utilization, a saving of $2.0-$4.0 billion can be seen as reachable and practical.
  • (19) The catalytic site of endopeptidases that are entrapped and inhibited by alpha M is known to remain active on (and reachable by) small synthetic peptide substrates such as LGA-AFC and BPN.
  • (20) They constitute the greatest single readily-reachable population group and present one of our greatest opportunities toward achieving a brighter health future.

Teachable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The teachable moment is the time when a learner is ready to accept new information for use conceptually or in practice.
  • (2) AQA's apologists, staggering out of the committee rooms in which these bizarre choices have been hatched, will no doubt contest that one criterion for their selection is that the works should be eminently "teachable" i.e.
  • (3) Nevertheless, the mixture of knowledge, skills, and attitudes are collectively unique as applied by the family physician, and are teachable, learnable, and subject to critical inquiry and research.
  • (4) Young people have valuable soft skills making them a teachable fit for many of the technical skills required in each job," said Mark Cahill, Manpower UK's managing director.
  • (5) The subject-matter has to be fragmented in order to be teachable, but somebody has to put the whole person together again.
  • (6) Composed of teachable components, transformational factors are similar to leadership qualities described in magnet hospitals, offering positive implications for nursing administration and professional nursing practice.
  • (7) These parallel conditions provide opportunities for both organizations to work closely together to identify successful models to serve the "teachable moments" of all health care practitioners.
  • (8) The purpose of this approach is to provide a parsimonious means of organizing and verifying clinical information, thus making the assessment process both manageable and teachable.
  • (9) This technique represents a reliable, rapid, and readily teachable method for the surgical management of tricuspid insufficiency.
  • (10) It is important to teach when a "teachable" moment has arrived.
  • (11) A child's visit to a physician for these illnesses represents a "teachable moment" to screen for household smokers and to counsel parents regarding the health effects of passive smoking.
  • (12) Given recent studies identifying environmental tobacco smoke as a risk factor for children by being associated with an increase in the incidence and severity of respiratory tract and ear infections, family physicians should be routinely screening parents, especially during visits that provide teachable moments for counseling and intervention.
  • (13) It then presents a teachable developmental theory weaved from threads of numerous known theories, and describes a process whereby "interminable" foster experience was used therapeutically for a group of handicapped homeless children.
  • (14) Suggestions for survival for continuing educators and librarians in "stalking the teachable moment" are discussed.
  • (15) Twelve practice principles for the primary physician are discussed, touching on such issues as style of communication, recognition of the "teachable moment," utilization of the longitudinality of the physician-patient relationship, coordination of care, and causes of failure.
  • (16) CDC director Tom Frieden said in a conference call with reporters on Thursday that this is a “teachable moment” for US hospitals.
  • (17) Some people have a natural strength with them but they’re teachable and we’re not doing that.
  • (18) Mother Nature provides an almost endless series now of teachable moments.
  • (19) Analysis of results showed easy and reproducible teachability, a high degree of acceptance by dentists and examinees, accuracy, and low cost.
  • (20) "Teachable" moments can occur at any time during hospitalization.

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