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pushable en · ADJ

Etymology

From push + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable of being pushed.

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unpushable

pushable en · NOUN

Etymology

From push + -able.

Meanings

1. (rare) Something that is pushable.
   • Looked at a LAWN-BOY lately? You’re in for a surprise. The same features and quality are there, but prices are lower… That’s why today’s LAWN-BOY mowers are the value leaders. So see those easy-to-handle “pushables,” the self-propellers you just walk behind. 1972 May 5, Diamond M Mower Service, “LAWN-BOY”, in Dixon Evening Telegraph, 122nd year, number 5, Dixon, Ill., →OCLC, page 11, column 6:
   • On a hall just off the clinic’s main corridor are two small rooms; one is nearly filled with a child-sized round table and chairs and packed with crayons, paints, and miscellaneous arts and craft supplies. The other has trucks, dolls, puzzles, games, and various rollables and pushables on an open floor. 1990, Karen Brodkin Sacks, “Does It Pay to Care?”, in Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson, editors, Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women’s Lives (SUNY Series on Women and Work), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, part III (Formal Organizations), page 196:
   • Visualize and try all of this with your eyes closed. Pushing disk or ball on the floor using the “whisker” demands constant focus beyond the usual nearpoint of focus into less set depth judgment of intermediate space. Smaller, less color contrast or ball pushables on less smooth surfaces increase the demand; bottle caps, coins, marbles, or superballs make good pushables. 1999, “Cat’s Whisker”, in Anne Barber, editor, Visual Demands of the Workplace (Behavior Aspects of Vision Care; volume 40, number 1), Santa Ana, Calif.: Optometric Extension Program, →ISBN, page 66:

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