(a.) Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.
Example Sentences:
(1) This schedule appears workable in the community setting and yields response rates similar to those reported for 5-FU with high-dose leucovorin, but without the gastroin testinal toxicity profile of the latter combination.
(2) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
(3) Although both systems are workable, improved catheters for the administration of intraperitoneal chemotherapy are warranted.
(4) There are solutions to this and it is to be hoped that a more workable amendment will be laid very soon.
(5) Pender's health promotion model is presented as a workable model on which to base healthy dietary intake programs, and three programs that have used elements similar to this model are presented, one in detail.
(6) Developing a workable system and investing the time to carry it through has many positive outcomes for both the manager and the nursing staff.
(7) A workable alternative policy would be a development program marked by labor-intensive industra lization, nonelite education systems, and the erosion of traditional sex ist roles, thereby undermining the basis for large families.
(8) It can be placed at the time of original surgery and is also workable in patients who have had radiation and extensive radical surgery with total reconstruction of their gullet.
(9) Such a climate of personal responsibility could be created if doctors, educators and policy-makers agreed on some workable, positive goals and steps that would help meet realistic national goals over a defined period of time.
(10) Is it possible that in the end we just won’t arrive at a workable agreement?
(11) Only by developing a comprehensive stress-accident model will comprehensive and workable accident prevention programs be developed to replace the current patchwork of existing programs.
(12) Partly as the result of legislative changes made in 1975 and 1977, Texas has a workable system for dealing with mentally abnormal offenders and assessing the dangerousness of committed offenders.
(13) But the MPs go further and suggest that if none of the mitigating proposals currently being examined prove workable, Osborne should rethink the plans from scratch, buying time by pausing the proposed reforms entirely for a year.
(14) "This is a significant report for the creative industries, taking steps to establish workable systems of copyright in an online age and to preserve choice of public service content."
(15) But the commission said that Britain had not presented any "credible and workable plan" for meeting air quality standards by 2015.
(16) (1) A workable proton-pump mechanism does not require large protein conformational changes.
(17) The therapist's possible counter-transference motives in treating the patient are explored, and a workable solution is offered.
(18) The "teenager" has proved a highly workable rite of passage for the past 70 years.
(19) In 50 years of nuclear power, nobody has come up with a workable plan for the million years that safety regulations demand.
(20) Varying the importance of these characteristics gives us a workable function-generation tool, able to address a variety of clinical needs.
Worktable
Definition:
(n.) A table for holding working materials and implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sliding microtome is placed under the machine, which consists of a worktable, a stand, and a motor-driven unit.
(2) The hood is a narrow low-volume, high-velocity slot hood located between a belt surface and a worktable; the push device is a jet stripper located inside a driven pulley hood opposite the operator site.
(3) A sliding microtome was put on a worktable with a specially designed motor-driven drill.