"dispensable" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /dɪsˈpɛnsəbəl/, [dɪsˈpʰɛnsəbɫ̩], [-bəɫ] Forms: more dispensable [comparative], most dispensable [superlative]
Etymology: dispense + -able Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|dispense|able}} dispense + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} dispensable (comparative more dispensable, superlative most dispensable)
  1. Able to be done without; able to be expended; easily replaced. Translations (able to be done without; able to be expended; easily replaced): неналожителен (nenaložitelen) (Bulgarian), без който може (bez kojto može) (Bulgarian), prescindible (Catalan), postradatelný (Czech), nadbytečný (Czech), misbaar (Dutch), onnodig (Dutch), overbodig (Dutch), facultatif (French), entbehrlich (German), verzichtbar (German), überflüssig (German), abkömmlich (German), nélkülözhető (Hungarian), mellőzhető (Hungarian), elhagyható (english: omissible, optional; chiefly academically) (Hungarian), dispensável [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), prescindible (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-dispensable-en-adj-u4I00RyE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -able Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 20 3 33 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 56 12 7 25 Disambiguation of 'able to be done without; able to be expended; easily replaced': 90 3 1 6
  2. Capable of being dispensed; distributable.
    Sense id: en-dispensable-en-adj-1vyikCqQ
  3. (of a law, rule, vow, etc.) Subject to dispensation; possible to relax, exempt from, or annul. Tags: usually
    Sense id: en-dispensable-en-adj-j5BGfgkH
  4. (biochemistry, nutrition, of an amino acid) Not essential to be taken in as part of an organism's diet, as it can be synthesized de novo. Categories (topical): Biochemistry, Nutrition
    Sense id: en-dispensable-en-adj-LT09exl0 Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: dispensary, dispense

Adjective [French]

Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-dispensable.wav Forms: dispensables [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-adj}} dispensable (plural dispensables)
  1. dispensable
    Sense id: en-dispensable-fr-adj-6YeZGfNa Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cf/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lyoko%C3%AF-dispensable.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lyoko%C3%AF-dispensable.wav.ogg",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.