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Able   /ˈeɪbəl/   Listen
Able

adjective
(compar. abler; superl. ablest)
1.
(usually followed by 'to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.  "She was able to program her computer" , "We were at last able to buy a car" , "Able to get a grant for the project"
2.
Have the skills and qualifications to do things well.  Synonym: capable.  "A capable administrator" , "Children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable"
3.
Having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity.  "Human beings are able to walk on two feet" , "Superman is able to leap tall buildings"
4.
Having a strong healthy body.  Synonym: able-bodied.  "Every able-bodied young man served in the army"



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willing and able


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"Able" Quotes from Famous Books



... absolutely dumb by shell-shock the soldier was able to earn a little extra money by doing odd jobs. But nothing could get his speech back. It was a very stubborn and perplexing case. For eighteen months he had not succeeded in uttering a word, though understanding everything that was said ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Dec. 5, 1917 • Various
... heart bounding with joy. The enormous weight which had oppressed him since the commencement of the conspiracy, and which Helene's love had scarcely been able to alleviate, now seemed to disappear as at the touch of ...
— The Regent's Daughter • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
... and fit only for an old man, my comrades used to tell me, to be the night-watchman of a captive (though honoured) ship. And generally the oldest of the able seamen in a ship's crew does get it. But sometimes neither the oldest nor any other fairly steady seaman is forthcoming. Ships' crews had the trick of melting away swiftly in those days. So, probably on account of my youth, innocence, and pensive habits (which made me sometimes dilatory in ...
— The Mirror of the Sea • Joseph Conrad
... typography was invented. This version has been printed, and may be found in libraries, but is little read; for the same books have been since translated both by Victorius and Lambinus, who lived in an age more cultivated, but perhaps owed in part to Aretinus that they were able to excel him. Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task ...
— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson
... louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, he ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo


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