Labile vs Liable - What's the difference?
labile | liable |
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Apt or likely to change.
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(chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 34.
Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable.
Likely.
Liable is a anagram of labile.
As adjectives the difference between labile and liable
is that labile is liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize while liable is bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.labile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Pythagoras [said] that each thing or matter was ever gliding and labile .
- Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.
- Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution.
Derived terms
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* * * ----liable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
- The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, seems liable to this inconvenience
- Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.