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Adjective that means “disableable”? [duplicate]
I can't seem to find an adjective that describes something that can be disabled. I made up the word "disableable", but it surely sounds funny, and it's not even a real word.
It's for use in a ...
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“Hirable” or “hireable”
What is the correct adjective form of the word hire? I have seen references to both hireable and hirable.
I checked using Google's Ngram viewer book search and it appears that both have been in use ...
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Adjective form of “collide”—“collideable” or “collidable”?
I need to name an interface in a program I'm writing as being able to collide, but I've seen use of both collideable and collidable in projects with a similar type. Both of them look right in some ...
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Creating words with “-able” suffix
What are general rules of thumb for creating adjectives with -able? I wanted to denote an object as having an ability to be tiled, but "tileable" and "tilable" both yielded as incorrect words by spell ...
