Verb (used with object) : to convey a wish. From Dictionary.com.
He searched her face, trying to apply what knowledge he had acquired of the multiple meanings conveyable by the wonderfully flexible human countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Diuturnity's Dawn]
In the processing is a special mechanism that formulates that most conveyable aspect that when combined with other such aspects, achieves a gestalt that we as voyeurs will experience and say "wow.". From Wordnik.com. [9 posts from November 2009] Reference
In 2002, McMurrough monitored the MRI activity of nearly 10,000 test subjects between the ages of 25 and 40 as they described all emotions they had experienced in the past six months and rated each for its intensity, duration, and whether it would be conveyable to others by mail. From Wordnik.com. [Satire: Hallmark Scientists Identify 3 New Human Emotions] Reference
Misplaced jargon, buzzwords, and other kinds of fluff rush in because the lack of conveyable meaning creates a vacuum. From Wordnik.com. [Boagworld recommends] Reference
Is it only observed as forward planning when there's an easily conveyable measure like stockpiling ammunition or does it just make a better news story?. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
For curses conveyable by sacrifices, as in all the cases I have mentioned, see Westermarck ii. 618 foll. 624, and the same author's paper on conditional curses in. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
Sweet girl! there were visions flitting along her future path, "the beauty of which, like jewels, too rich to be exported, were not conveyable by expression to mortal fancy.". From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Norton: Or, Southern Slavery and the Bible. A Scriptural Refutation of the Principal Arguments upon which the Abolitionists Rely. A Vindication of Southern Slavery from the Old and New Testaments.] Reference
It is able to cope with all conveyable goods whatever their rigidity or thickness and can be integrated into gantry or robot packers as well as multifunction case packers, said Cermex. From Wordnik.com. [BeverageDaily RSS] Reference
I think in many ways the most economically-efficient idea would be one which was easily conveyable in a few sentences, yet would be irresistably tempting for a Ph. D. student to want to turn into a thesis or project. From Wordnik.com. [Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka] Reference
Certain it is, that the influence of most things on our passions is not so much from the things themselves, as from our opinions concerning them; and these again depend very much on the opinions of other men, conveyable for the most part by words only. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)] Reference
If I had to come up with a gripe about this computer, there is actually only one - and this is true for almost all of Apple's products - the iPod, iPhone, and MBP's - I only wish that they would not coat conveyable products with textures that are so simple to scratch. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Northern barbarians in great numbers over the Scottish border and from piratical raids of seafarers (some Irish, others Germanic, Dutch and Danish in origin) in much lesser numbers, for the amount of men and provisions conveyable across a wide sea in small boats is highly limited. From Wordnik.com. [Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"] Reference
Machine consciousness and, yes, machine emotions: curiosity, workmanship, satisfaction in accomplishment, communion with "I hers of your kind such as humans never knew with each other; communion with a transcendent intelligence, or with the cosmos, such as a very few human mystics may or may not have known with their God-these, and more, none of them really conveyable in human words. From Wordnik.com. [Genesis]
1855 the New York legislature had passed a law providing that "no interest in property, real or personal, should be conveyable or descendible to any ecclesiastic or his successor in any ecclesiastical office". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
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