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write-onable en · ADJ

Etymology

From write on + -able.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) Capable of being written on.
   • It's a sheet much like standard labels, but the pull-off things are *clear*, and circular, with a chord segment opaque and write-onable. 1990 December 18, Mary Shafer, “Tabs for NOS books”, in rec.aviation (Usenet):
   • The Centre, a flexible, technology-enhanced space, has seven ceiling-mounted projectors, a 5-metre, curved, back projection screen, a sound system, coloured lighting, temperature controls, moveable 'write-onable' walls and bean bags, and can even pump scents into the space. 2012, Peter Jarvis, Mary Watts, The Routledge International Handbook of Learning, →ISBN, page 13:
   • Jack had always leaned toward black Marsalot for notes, arrows and marginal balloons on any piece of evidence that was write-onable, to the vocal disgust of the district attorneys who had then to introduce the evidence into the trial record. 1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 43:

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