contractable

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Go ask someone a bright kid in high school what "contractable to a plane" is.

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(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

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adjective

(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for contractable.

adjective

(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

Example sentences

Go ask someone a bright kid in high school what "contractable to a plane" is.

The "is" in "your house is big" is not non-contractable, as can be seen here: It's big.

Like a contagious mood boost, contractable for free by air!

Why should citizens be forbidden to tinker with the boundaries of what is contractable?

What "contractable to 3D space with a hole" means is very far away from "obvious" by any reasonable definition of the word.

* The inside is obviously contractable to a point, and the outside is obviously contractable to a plane with a hole in it.

Isn't even tech, a notoriously mobile and free-wheeling industry, not perfectly contractable?

> Here are two English sentences in which a word appears solely to satisfy English syntactic requirementsNot sure how that relates to what I'm saying about "the".A minor note: the "is" in "Your house is big" is non-contractable, whereas in "It's raining outside" the "is" contracts, so they're really 2 different words.