tangible
IPA: tˈændʒʌbʌɫ
noun
- A physical object; something that can be touched.
- Real or concrete results.
adjective
- Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch.
- Perceptible; able to be perceived.
- Able to be treated as fact; real or concrete.
- Comprehensible by the mind; understandable.
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Examples of "tangible" in Sentences
- And we're seeing what I call the tangible voter, who wants to see real results and something happening.
- Information can be instantiated in tangible property, which is defined as a tangible object ( "ideal object") with boundaries that can be possessed.
- BASH: His big examples, two cities where bloody battles are now replaced by what he called tangible progress because of lessons learned the hard way.
- Just hours before he broke the news, a source close to the investigation tells me the suspect's wife came forward with what he calls tangible evidence leading to Laurean.
- Just hours before he broke the news, a source close to the investigation tells me, the suspect's wife came forward with what he calls tangible evidence leading to Laurean.
- If I were to ask you to make a list of words to describe what you understand about human rights, I am going to guess that a majority of you would not have the word "tangible" on the descriptive list.
- If I were to ask you to make a list of words to describe what you understand about human rights, I am going to guess that a majority of you would not have the word "tangible" on the descriptive list. ...
- Officials pointed to what they described as tangible signs of their progress on Guantanamo, saying 11 detainees have been resettled or repatriated, one has been moved to New York for criminal trial, and another detained in the U.S. as an "enemy combatant" has pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges.
- Vic Alboini, chief executive of Jaguar Financial Corp., a Toronto-based merchant bank that is pressing for changes at RIM to realize what he calls a tangible book value of more than $30 on the stock, said he is in talks with an unnamed independent director at RIM to discuss options for the company that could include management changes, an outright sale or a breakup of assets.
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