Permeable
adjective
Something that allows fluids or gases to pass through it.
The soil in this area is very permeable, allowing the rain water to seep through.
Often appears as...
- highly permeable
- permeable soil
adjective
Able to be influenced, entered, or affected.
His mind was permeable to new ideas.
Often appears as...
- permeable to change
- permeable system
adjective
Something that allows fluids or gases to pass through it.
The soil in this area is very permeable, allowing the rain water to seep through.
Often appears as...
- highly permeable
- permeable soil
adjective
Able to be influenced, entered, or affected.
His mind was permeable to new ideas.
Often appears as...
- permeable to change
- permeable system
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Material Context
Use 'permeable' when describing materials like fabrics, rocks, or membranes that liquids or gases can go through.
Cotton clothing is permeable, making it breathable.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Focus
'Permeable' often relates to environmental science, such as soil and water systems.
Permeable rock layers affect groundwater flow.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Property
Remember that 'permeable' is a physical property; it describes an object's characteristics, not its function.
A permeable jacket isn't necessarily waterproof.
Pro Tip 1/3Material Context
Use 'permeable' when describing materials like fabrics, rocks, or membranes that liquids or gases can go through.
Cotton clothing is permeable, making it breathable.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Focus
'Permeable' often relates to environmental science, such as soil and water systems.
Permeable rock layers affect groundwater flow.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Property
Remember that 'permeable' is a physical property; it describes an object's characteristics, not its function.
A permeable jacket isn't necessarily waterproof.
Pro Tip 1/3Material Context
Use 'permeable' when describing materials like fabrics, rocks, or membranes that liquids or gases can go through.
Cotton clothing is permeable, making it breathable.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Focus
'Permeable' often relates to environmental science, such as soil and water systems.
Permeable rock layers affect groundwater flow.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Property
Remember that 'permeable' is a physical property; it describes an object's characteristics, not its function.
A permeable jacket isn't necessarily waterproof.
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The psychology of evil PIPE...
which privileged people like to think is fixed and impermeable, with them on the good side, the others on the bad side -- I knew that line was movable, and it was permeable. Good people could be seduced across that line, and under good and some rare circumstances, bad kids could recover with help, with reform, with rehabilitation.
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Why are frogs...
And these chemicals are easily absorbed through amphibians' permeable skin, causing immunosuppression, or a weakened immune system, and developmental deformities. Okay, so why are these little green guys worth keeping around? Frogs are important for a multitude of reasons. They're an integral part of the food web,
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What causes dandruff,...
Exactly why is unclear. Do people with dandruff have a certain genetic predisposition? Is their skin barrier more permeable? Scientists are currently investigating if people with dandruff do, in fact, lose more water through their scalps, and whether this is what’s leading their skin cells to proliferate.
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Why great architecture...
in which these horizontal building blocks are stacked up to create huge outdoor courtyards -- central spaces for the community, programmed with a variety of amenities and functions. And you see that these courtyards are not hermetically sealed spaces. They're open, permeable; they're interconnected.
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What if 3D printing was...
underneath the reservoir, illuminating with light in the ultraviolet region. Now, the key is that this window in the bottom of this reservoir, it's a composite, it's a very special window. It's not only transparent to light but it's permeable to oxygen. It's got characteristics like a contact lens.
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James Kunstler: How bad...
We need better places in this country. Public space. This is a good public space. It's a place worth caring about. It's well defined. It is emphatically an outdoor public room. It has something that is terribly important -- it has what's called an active and permeable membrane around the edge.
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Moshe Safdie: How to...
It's permeable. There are gardens and open spaces for the community, almost every unit with its own private garden, and community space all around. And most important, permeable, open. It does not form a wall or an obstruction in the city,
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How can sculptures save...
sustainable fishing and permeable breakwaters when I saw this progression it struck me as a sculptural metal miracle many of these corals survived in El Nino year while the neighboring corals on the natural reefs died or bleached from
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Can You Build a House...
this house and retrofit it with him create and demonstrate that it's a viable building process in fact it's everything that you want in a building in a wall it's permeable so it mediates the humidity in the room but since the
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Iceland's secret power -...
and there are two primary models for how to do it. One is to build a geothermal power plant which uses these hot, deep pools to produce electricity. First, engineers drill a well several kilometers into permeable rock
Video examples
The psychology of evil PIPE...
which privileged people like to think is fixed and impermeable, with them on the good side, the others on the bad side -- I knew that line was movable, and it was permeable. Good people could be seduced across that line, and under good and some rare circumstances, bad kids could recover with help, with reform, with rehabilitation.
Video examples
Why are frogs...
And these chemicals are easily absorbed through amphibians' permeable skin, causing immunosuppression, or a weakened immune system, and developmental deformities. Okay, so why are these little green guys worth keeping around? Frogs are important for a multitude of reasons. They're an integral part of the food web,
Video examples
What causes dandruff,...
Exactly why is unclear. Do people with dandruff have a certain genetic predisposition? Is their skin barrier more permeable? Scientists are currently investigating if people with dandruff do, in fact, lose more water through their scalps, and whether this is what’s leading their skin cells to proliferate.
Video examples
Why great architecture...
in which these horizontal building blocks are stacked up to create huge outdoor courtyards -- central spaces for the community, programmed with a variety of amenities and functions. And you see that these courtyards are not hermetically sealed spaces. They're open, permeable; they're interconnected.
Video examples
What if 3D printing was...
underneath the reservoir, illuminating with light in the ultraviolet region. Now, the key is that this window in the bottom of this reservoir, it's a composite, it's a very special window. It's not only transparent to light but it's permeable to oxygen. It's got characteristics like a contact lens.
Video examples
James Kunstler: How bad...
We need better places in this country. Public space. This is a good public space. It's a place worth caring about. It's well defined. It is emphatically an outdoor public room. It has something that is terribly important -- it has what's called an active and permeable membrane around the edge.
Video examples
Moshe Safdie: How to...
It's permeable. There are gardens and open spaces for the community, almost every unit with its own private garden, and community space all around. And most important, permeable, open. It does not form a wall or an obstruction in the city,
Video examples
How can sculptures save...
sustainable fishing and permeable breakwaters when I saw this progression it struck me as a sculptural metal miracle many of these corals survived in El Nino year while the neighboring corals on the natural reefs died or bleached from
Video examples
Can You Build a House...
this house and retrofit it with him create and demonstrate that it's a viable building process in fact it's everything that you want in a building in a wall it's permeable so it mediates the humidity in the room but since the
Video examples
Iceland's secret power -...
and there are two primary models for how to do it. One is to build a geothermal power plant which uses these hot, deep pools to produce electricity. First, engineers drill a well several kilometers into permeable rock
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Quote examples
Laura Benanti
American Actress
If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.
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John Battelle
American Businessman
As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code - whether it's the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.
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Hampton Sides
American Historian
I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
American Scientist
The biggest organ in your body is your skin, and it's a permeable membrane. Anything you put on it goes into you. If you can't pronounce most of the words on the back of the bottle, it's probably not good for you.
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Sue Monk Kidd
American Writer
Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.
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Renzo Piano
Italian Architect
In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.
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John Berger
English Artist
I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.
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Teresa de Lauretis
Italian Author
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
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Philip Zimbardo
American Psychologist
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
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Kevin Powers
American Writer
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
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Laura Benanti
American Actress
If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.
Quote examples
John Battelle
American Businessman
As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code - whether it's the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.
Quote examples
Hampton Sides
American Historian
I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
Quote examples
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
American Scientist
The biggest organ in your body is your skin, and it's a permeable membrane. Anything you put on it goes into you. If you can't pronounce most of the words on the back of the bottle, it's probably not good for you.
Quote examples
Sue Monk Kidd
American Writer
Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.
Quote examples
Renzo Piano
Italian Architect
In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.
Quote examples
John Berger
English Artist
I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.
Quote examples
Teresa de Lauretis
Italian Author
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
Quote examples
Philip Zimbardo
American Psychologist
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
Quote examples
Kevin Powers
American Writer
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
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