"writable" meaning in English

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    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “computing”",
      "word": "read-only"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "write",
        "3": "able"
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      "expansion": "write + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From write + -able.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more writable",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most writable",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "writable (comparative more writable, superlative most writable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "writ‧a‧ble"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
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        "natural-sciences"
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      "word": "readable"
    }
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  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Are sign languages writable?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Capable of being written."
      ],
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          "written",
          "written"
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The file is writable only for users in the admin group."
        },
        {
          "text": "I burned my family's vacation photos onto a writable CD."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Patrick Alessi, Professional iOS Database Application Programming:",
          "text": "The following code snippet shows how to check whether a writable database already exists, and if not, create an editable copy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Capable of being written to."
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      "qualifier": "storage device",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, of a file, storage device, etc.) Capable of being written to."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a file"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "name": "Programming",
          "orig": "en:Programming",
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        {
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          "_dis": "4 29 66",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 24 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Randi J. Rost, Bill M. Licea-Kane, Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language:",
          "text": "In general, writable variables must have unique instances per processor executing a shader and therefore cannot be shared.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mutable"
      ],
      "id": "en-writable-en-adj-HagF89A7",
      "links": [
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          "programming",
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        ],
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          "mutable",
          "mutable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(programming) mutable"
      ],
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        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹaɪtəbəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪtəbəl"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "writeable"
    }
  ],
  "word": "writable"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “computing”",
      "word": "read-only"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "write",
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      },
      "expansion": "write + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From write + -able.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more writable",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most writable",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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  ],
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  ],
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences"
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      "word": "readable"
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        {
          "text": "Are sign languages writable?",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Capable of being written."
      ],
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        [
          "written",
          "written"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "en:Computing"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "The file is writable only for users in the admin group."
        },
        {
          "text": "I burned my family's vacation photos onto a writable CD."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Patrick Alessi, Professional iOS Database Application Programming:",
          "text": "The following code snippet shows how to check whether a writable database already exists, and if not, create an editable copy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Capable of being written to."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "storage device",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, of a file, storage device, etc.) Capable of being written to."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a file"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Programming"
      ],
      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2009, Randi J. Rost, Bill M. Licea-Kane, Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language:",
          "text": "In general, writable variables must have unique instances per processor executing a shader and therefore cannot be shared.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mutable"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "programming",
          "programming#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "mutable",
          "mutable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(programming) mutable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "programming",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹaɪtəbəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪtəbəl"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "writeable"
    }
  ],
  "word": "writable"
}