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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

holdable en · ADJ

Etymology

From hold + -able.

Meanings

  1. That may be held.
    • Bones and stones, if you can forgive this vulgar formulation, are both holdable and beholdable. 2017, Paul Kockelman, The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation, page 113:

Forms

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most holdable Degree=Sup lexicographic
more holdable Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

handholdable · unholdable