Used in a Sentence

doable

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for doable.

Editorial note

Hacking the connexion from the drone to the pilot is doable, and has been done.

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Quick take

Something that can be done; a possible or practical task.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of doable gathered in one view.

noun

Something that can be done; a possible or practical task.

adjective

Possible to do; feasible.

adjective

(informal) Worthy of sexual conquest.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for doable.

Example sentences

1

Hacking the connexion from the drone to the pilot is doable, and has been done.

2

Proof-of-concept 15 second renders are doable, feature-length films with non-humans are doable (albeit with a LOT of human intervention), but 90 minutes of CGI humans is a lot harder.

3

It's very doable anywhere in the country right now, but you can't just float down stream.

4

As others mentioned, it's doable, but can involve long wait times and hefty landing fees.

5

A better example might have been a smart contract trust which is 100% doable today.

6

I vividly remember seeing his blogposts on reimplementing an SSH server in PHP, just to show that it's doable.

7

If you are supposed to leave kids at 8 and pick them up at 4 then obviously a 1h commute isn't really doable.

8

For contracts like a website domain transfer this sounds at least initially doable.

9

It is very doable, we've successfully done it in the past with other chemicals such as ozone.

10

Laying out a custom ARM mother board using a reference platform is doable, since I've done it for work.

11

At least for water parks, I think this should be doable.

12

In that case, yes, it would be interesting to make a system to verify such and probably doable in the short term (ignoring the UI issues which are separate).

Quote examples

1

"Hello world" is doable in 3 lines instead of 5, granted.

2

"Characters" - moulding their appearance is almost doable now.

3

I am completely unfamiliar with Perl and its regular expressions, but from your article and this comment I get the impression that they are Turing-complete, which would mean they're capable of describing any formal language as well as doing any "doable" computation.

4

I built the epoll, TLS, SSH, webserver and client as "IO layers", such that they can be stacked together arbitrarily (imagine epoll/IPv4 listener -> TLS -> SSH -> TLS -> Webserver, perfectly doable, albeit a little nutty).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use doable in a sentence?

Hacking the connexion from the drone to the pilot is doable, and has been done.

What does doable mean?

Something that can be done; a possible or practical task.

What part of speech is doable?

doable is commonly used as noun, adjective.