"detachable" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /dətætʃəbl̩/ [UK], /diːtætʃəbl̩/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-detachable.wav [Southern-England]
Etymology: From French détachable, detach + -able Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|détachable}} French détachable, {{suffix|en|detach|able}} detach + -able Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} detachable (not comparable)
  1. Designed to be unfastened or disconnected without damage. Tags: not-comparable Derived forms: nondetachable Related terms: demountable, dismantlable Translations (designed to be unfastened): отделяем (otdeljaem) (Bulgarian), подвижен (podvižen) (Bulgarian), aftagelig (Danish), løs (Danish), irrotettava (Finnish), amovible (French), détachable [feminine, masculine] (French), separable [feminine, masculine] (Galician), αφαιρούμενος (afairoúmenos) (Greek), αποσπάσιμος (apospásimos) (Greek), αποσπώμενος (apospómenos) (Greek), leválasztható (Hungarian), levehető (Hungarian), distaccabile (Italian), estraibile (Italian), rimovibile (Italian), separabile (Italian), staccabile (Italian), so-scarrey (Manx), yn-scarrey (Manx), avtagbar (Norwegian Bokmål), avtakbar (Norwegian Bokmål), avtakbar (Norwegian Nynorsk), destacável [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), отделя́емый (otdeljájemyj) (Russian), одво̀јив [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), раздво̀јив [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), odvòjiv [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), razdvòjiv [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), separable (Spanish), de quita y pon (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-detachable-en-adj-bN73C3pW

Noun

IPA: /dətætʃəbl̩/ [UK], /diːtætʃəbl̩/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-detachable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: detachables [plural]
Etymology: From French détachable, detach + -able Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|détachable}} French détachable, {{suffix|en|detach|able}} detach + -able Head templates: {{en-noun}} detachable (plural detachables)
  1. Any device that is designed so that it can be detached from something else.
    Sense id: en-detachable-en-noun-J6W30NEz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -able, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 63 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 24 76 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 19 81

Inflected forms

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      },
      "expansion": "detach + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French détachable, detach + -able",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "detachables",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "detachable (plural detachables)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015 November 5, Jack Schofield, “Which laptop should we buy for our child?”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "For the past few months, the red HP Pavilion X2 10-n055na has been my pick of the detachables at £249.99.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any device that is designed so that it can be detached from something else."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "device",
          "device"
        ],
        [
          "detach",
          "detach"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dətætʃəbl̩/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/diːtætʃəbl̩/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-detachable.wav",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/20/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-detachable.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-detachable.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "detachable"
}

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