They indicate how carefully the author is thinking about the multiplicity of meanings derivable from the metaphors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Instead it was fully comprehensible and derivable from the world such as it looks, "for what is is; and its very existence is necessitated by the fact that it is.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Imre Kertész: A Medium for the Spirit of Auschwitz] Reference

The benefits derivable from use-inheritance are largely illusory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference

The lesson derivable from this is not obsolete even in the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

He should enjoy the grain and gold and other possessions derivable from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

We will now ascertain what sanction to slavery is derivable from these terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference

But are the advantages derivable by the people from institutions such as this, only of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speeches: Literary and Social] Reference

Some of those names are derivable from my attributes and some of them relate to my acts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

We may hope that some unconfessed satisfaction was derivable from her continued reception of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

As all animals are sensible to the pleasure derivable from food, they all feel a desire for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

Most valuable information as to the nature and progress of disease is derivable from the pulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

The profits derivable from the undertaking, when accomplished, are too obvious to require enumeration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference

In former time, Yajnavalkya did that good to king Janaka which is derivable from a study of the Upanishads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

But when we come to estimate the “sweets” derivable from warfare between states,60 the parallel ceases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiero] Reference

This insures contact between the dressing and the exposed surface, as well as any benefit derivable from pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

Ronsard injured the language by introducing into French poetry the Greek compounds, derivable from the physicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

And I contend that the same advantages derivable from a School-Board education entirely compensate for a little loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891] Reference

It is, without doubt, marvellous that such sounds should be derivable from so small and simple-looking an instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

The want of hands alone retards the development of every branch of production derivable from industry in these regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference

The revenue derivable from the districts, is annually swept into the Sydney treasury; and I would ask, with what return?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference

In brief, the following are a few of the benefits derivable from scientific fasting: -- (1) It gives nature a chance to "Clean Up.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference

Thou art he whose object are all crowned with fruition, of themselves and without waiting for the puissance (derivable from penances).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

This, like the reciprocal contractions of lengths, is immediately derivable from the Lorentz transformation in its new interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [RELATIVITY] Reference

Where intelligence is not highly valued and carefully promoted by selection, the intelligence derivable from association with man does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference

Prior to 1800 most of the energy available to man was that derivable from his food, the labor of his animals, and the wood he used for fuel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy from Fossil Fuels (historical)] Reference

If, in his limited sphere, he sought power, it was the power of knowledge; the power derivable from a perfect comprehension of his business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

Vishnu, endued with knowledge of truth derivable from a just comprehension of the Upanishads and Vedanta, vanquished by Indra, O foremost of men?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Never lose sight for a moment of the manifold advantages derivable from a free use of the trap-door and the flying-wires; throw in a transparency, an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

But another and more obvious example of unitization in complexity, is derivable from the consideration of the animal organism, and will soon be given.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The only idea which we can form of causation is derivable from the constant conjunction of objects, and the consequent inference of one from the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

He pronounced, therefore, that it was not derivable from experience, did not come to us from without, through any direct communication from the senses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

The existence of nothing else (than five) can be affirmed by any one agreeably to the conclusions derivable from the Srutis or arguments drawn from reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Even Nobel physicist Steven Weinberg, concedes that there's a problem with consciousness and that its existence doesn't seem to be derivable from physical laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Lanza, M.D.: Will Machines Take Over the World? The Scientific Turning Point] Reference

Thus, we have no way to know at present whether most of the parameters of the standard model are derivable from a more fundamental theory that contains gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

Even granting that this was only half the net income derivable from the Abbey's estates, which were widely distributed, an expenditure of 10,000l. a year would go in our own time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference