write-onable

adjective

Capable of being written on.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. colloquialCapable of being written on.

    It's a sheet much like standard labels, but the pull-off things are *clear*, and circular, with a chord segment opaque and write-onable.

    1990 December 18, Mary Shafer, “Tabs for NOS books”, in rec.aviation (Usenet)
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    Jack had always leaned toward black Marsalot for notes, arrows and marginal balloons on any piece of evidence that was write-onable, to the vocal disgust of the district attorneys who had then to introduce the evidence into the trial record.

    1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 43

    The Centre, a flexible, technology-enhanced space, has seven ceiling-mounted projectors, a 5-metre, curved, back projection screen, a sound system, coloured lighting, temperature controls, moveable 'write-onable' walls and bean bags, and can even pump scents into the space.

    2012, Peter Jarvis, Mary Watts, The Routledge International Handbook of Learning, →ISBN, page 13

Origin

From write + on + -able.

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APA

write-onable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/write-onable

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“write-onable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/write-onable. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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