unsubmersible
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + submersible.
Adjective
editunsubmersible (not comparable)
- Not submersible.
- 1890 December 20, “To the North in a Balloon”, in Scientific American, volume 63, page 392:
- The car will be prepared for all emergencies by making it unsubmersible and furnishing it with runners for use as a sledge.
- 2008, David G. Proverbs, C. A. Brebbia, Edmund Charles Penning-Rowsell, Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response, page 115:
- The last problem with dikes was that dike failure was seldom included in waring plans, primarilty because they often are believed unsubmersible by riverside dwellers.
- 2010, Kensuke Fukushi, K M Hassan, R Honda, Sustainability in Food and Water: An Asian Perspective, page 128:
- Observation results indicated that drums/buckets or unsubmersible motor pumps were often used to collect water from dug wells/mixed dug well-boreholes.
- Buoyant and resilient; unquashable.
- 1914, Katherine Clemmons Gould, The crystal rood, page 7:
- It is conceivable that there might be in man a virtue as strong and buoyant, as unconquerable and unsubmersible, as the physical characteristics of his race, like them remaining insistently dominant through all the ages.
- 1980, Stuart Schneiderman, How Lacan's Ideas Are Used in Clinical Practice, page 51:
- "He is unsubmersible." And he adds: "He believes in his wife, his belief is unshakable."
- 1991, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography - Volume 17, page 85:
- his work — both positive and negative — tolled the knell of European empires in the long run to replace them by the unsubmersible nations of today.