available
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈveɪ.lə.bəl/
ipa: [əˈveɪ.lə.bl̩]
ipa: /əv(ɛ)ˈlebəl/
ipa: /əˈvɛjləbɪl/
Forms: form: more available
form: most available
Etymology: From Middle English available, avayllable, avayleable, equivalent of avail + -able.
Senses: examples: text: We have an available candidate.
text: For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.
examples: text: The list shows the available products in the store.
glosses: Readily obtainable.
examples: text: This is an available plea.
topics: law
glosses: Valid.
examples: text: One thing however, I finally settled upon—and that was, if I ever did meet him that I would shoot him precisely as I would shoot a mad dog. In order to make this plan available, I had […] armed myself with a revolver.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 22:
text: The different navigations she had to pass through for this purpose were such that only an independent method of propulsion would be available.
ref: 1897, Henry Banroft, Proceedings - Institution of Mechanical Engineers, canal Boat Propulsion:
glosses: Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.
examples: text: I have a question for you when you're available.
text: Hi, this is Mark Smith calling. Is your mother available?
text: I asked her if she was available, but she said she had a boyfriend.
text: Van de Velde did not make himself available to journalists. “He wants to rest his mind,” Immers explained.
ref: 2024 July 28, Matthew Futterman, “Steven van de Velde brings yet another moral hazard to the Olympics”, in nytimes.com:
glosses: Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like.
Synonyms: sense: such as can be availed of
word: usable
sense: such as can be availed of
word: profitable
sense: such as can be availed of
word: advantageous
sense: such as can be availed of
english: of a location
translation: of a location
word: vacant
sense: readily obtainable
word: gettable
sense: readily obtainable
word: on offer
sense: legally valid
word: valid
Derived terms: word: availability
word: availableness
word: availably
word: bioavailable
word: bio-available
word: geoavailable
word: inavailable
word: interavailable
word: nonavailable
word: phytoavailable
word: reavailable
word: re-available
word: unavailable
sense: Expressions
word: available energy
sense: Expressions
word: available light
sense: Expressions
word: available seat-mile
sense: Expressions
word: available ton mile
sense: Expressions
word: source-available