transcription, транскрипция: [ keɪpəb(ə)l ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If a person or thing is capable of doing something, they have the ability to do it.
He appeared hardly capable of conducting a coherent conversation...
The kitchen is capable of catering for several hundred people...
≠ incapable
ADJ : v-link ADJ of -ing / n
2.
Someone who is capable has the skill or qualities necessary to do a particular thing well, or is able to do most things well.
She’s a very capable speaker...
Her husband was such a fine, capable man.
= competent, able
ADJ
• ca‧pably
Happily it was all dealt with very capably by the police and security people.
ADV : ADV with v