Passable vs Parsable - What's the difference?
passable | parsable |
That may be passed]] or [[traverse, traversed.
Tolerable; satisfactory; adequate.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging.
* 2014 , Paul Stryker, Confessions of a Sex Offender (page 33)
(grammar, computing) able to be parsed.
:Well formed XML is an example of parsable text or data.
As adjectives the difference between passable and parsable
is that passable is that may be passed or traversed while parsable is able to be parsed.passable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}
- The idea of something, or someone, being unusual and sexual is intoxicating. I concluded that if I ever met a very passable transsexual and we were attracted to one another, I'd go bisexual and pursue the relationship.
Derived terms
* passableness * passably ----parsable
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
Both the spellings parsable and parseable are widely used with similar frequency; the spelling parsable (without the ‘e’) is preferred in formal usage, according to the rule: :“Verbs drop silent final -e except after c and g (e.g. movable but changeable)” as mentioned in the OED, and used in standards.References
*Re: Bug124757: parsable vs. parseable *Debian Bug124609