What's the difference between spoilt and usable?

Spoilt


Definition:

  • () of Spoil

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the stories that took hold about the Klebolds after the shooting was that they were rich, and that Dylan’s violent behaviour was an extreme version of a spoilt child’s petulance.
  • (2) There's an irony here: Bausch was so influential they'll be spoilt for choice if they want choreographers like her.
  • (3) Veruca Salt from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is spoilt.
  • (4) A series of 75 spoilt soft lenses with opacities (mostly manifesting as discrete spots or as large areas of cloudiness, chalk-white in appearance) were subjected to histochemical, electron microscopical, electron probe x-ray microanalytical, x-ray diffraction, atomic absorption spectro-photometric, and biochemical analyses.
  • (5) Iknow other mothers probably think my son is spoilt, that I indulge him more than they do their own kids.
  • (6) Brendan Rodgers was not being spoilt afterwards when he said his team should have scored more and there was something revealing about the way Wenger took off Özil, Olivier Giroud and Nacho Monreal in one triple substitution.
  • (7) At Bodenham you are spoilt for choice, with long sandy beaches and river pools [see footnote].
  • (8) "This policy has so many downsides – it violates natural law, it makes kids spoilt and thankless," she said.
  • (9) Some felt it was the most likable she had ever been while others believed it to be evidence that she was nothing but a spoilt brat.
  • (10) The shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, said on Twitter : "Some of these Tories are foul-mouthed spoilt little brats and now one caught by the Sun."
  • (11) I was really spoilt for choice, torn between a lentil and watercress salad with an unusual citrussy dressing, and buttery purple sprouting broccoli on toast, but on a sunny day, thejameskitchen's lively, punchy green soup seemed so perfectly spring-like I couldn't resist.
  • (12) It's there now and the incessant whingeing of lazy spoilt people is drowning out the big match atmosphere.
  • (13) "Seb is a person of such talent that he is spoilt for choice," said Jowell.
  • (14) Spain , though, are spoilt for choice when it comes to central midfielders of class and achievement.
  • (15) As far as politicised literature and literary criticism went, the Russian intelligentsia were spoilt for choice.
  • (16) On the official memorial page set up by her brother James he wrote: "I fell asleep on the track lolz," and posted images of her with text saying she was spoilt.
  • (17) For him, and a growing number of his generation, the south is a refuge from the insane consumerism of America's coastal cities, a less-spoilt idyll, where roots run deep.
  • (18) She used to be just a rich society girl: thin, blonde, with a sharp tongue and a reputation for being spoilt.
  • (19) Which is possibly why we "onlies" have such a bad rep. We're either spoilt brash extroverts or loner introverts, selfish to the core.
  • (20) They’re acting like spoilt children in a playground, who don’t want to hear that playing with matches could burn down the school.

Usable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being used.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
  • (2) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
  • (3) P a hardly changed with the volume of the gas injections (20--60 ml injected within 1 s); Q was not measured after gas injection (the direct Fick method is not usable in this situation).
  • (4) A proposal for attention to professional influences usable in a computer program of obstetric clinics is offered.
  • (5) In 1987-88, 190 second-year medical students at the University of Minnesota Medical School--Minneapolis spent one fourth of a second-year clinical skills course on neurology randomly assigned to one of four teaching sites--hospitals A, B, C, and D. Following their rotations, 180 of the students completed usable feedback forms.
  • (6) Identification of attribute sets for the nature-of-injury (body region:detailed part:type of injury) and for the mode-of-injury (mechanism:agent:activity:intent:setting) allows the assembly of a clear, concise, easily usable, nad extensible format for representing the appropriate level of detail for nomenclature or classification.
  • (7) Problems encountered in the European development of laparoscopy included need to modify the optical instruments of the gastroenterologists, inadequacy of illumination, and selection of a usable gas for the pneumoperitoneum.
  • (8) It will be the first time that governments have clearly laid out a vision of accessible usable data across the entire chain of public contracting.
  • (9) In connection with this investigation pathobiochemical considerations of late diabetic injuries are carried out, which are the consequence of inconveniences in the usability of glucose of diabetics and the connected with this non-enzymatic glycosylation of various proteins.
  • (10) "A good game will have the expected progression at the end of each level, but it will also provide surprise rewards halfway through," says Ben Weedon, a consultant at PlayableGames, a company that carries out usability testing on new titles before they're released.
  • (11) The preventive-surface care operatory is the most basic yet most widely usable operatory.
  • (12) These events suggest that the depletion of cholesterol results in the inability of the cell to produce usable membrane.
  • (13) No boy showed any practically usable increase of muscle strength during the year of treatment.
  • (14) Data were collected from active members of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians; usable returns were secured from 76 percent of the members.
  • (15) The method requires little or no sample preparation and utilises UV peak detection at 215 nm with a serial signal amplification system to achieve a usable maximum sensitivity of less than 200 fmol of peptide.
  • (16) We also propose a possible new approach in which people from the age of 18 years would voluntarily enrol in an organ donation program, agreeing to permit all usable organs to be taken for transplantation at the time of death.
  • (17) Sceptor from Becton Dickinson is usable because of a good accordance with conventional methods and the good quality of the associated computer program (different types of statistical evaluation).
  • (18) During growth a part of the substrate is destroyed into scarcely usable benzylpenicilloic acid; hereby the antibiotic is detoxified.
  • (19) By radiation with ultraviolet light (405 nm) HPD will emit a strong red fluorescence (600 to 700 nm) which is usable for early detection of cancers under the conditions of fluorescence endoscopy.
  • (20) The scarcity of donor lungs for transplantation has been caused, in part, by the belief that a single donor cannot provide usable lungs if it serves as a heart donor.