adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a river is navigable (= people are able to travel along it in a boat )
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The river is navigable in the winter months.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They're dredging the harbor to keep it navigable .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is very well annotated, easily navigable and there is an admirable list of abbreviations.
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Mission Valley was a navigable inlet.
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She marked the meridians, numbered the latitudes and longitudes, and added a curlicue of compass points to make it navigable .
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Since good navigable waterways run from Houston to Pittsburgh, they decided to ship the fabricated steel in barges.
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The Chattahoochee was too shallow to keep barges afloat in the navigable waterway south of Atlanta.
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The overall length of the aqueduct is 94 metres and provides a navigable waterway 4 metres wide and 1.5 metres deep.
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There has been a navigable waterway to Exeter, in fact, since the sixteenth century.
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Two passages through the reef, both navigable for vessels up to 5,000 tons.