convertible
Speech parts
1. convertible - Noun
2. convertible - Adjective
3. convertible - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.
Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
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A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.
I got a Saab Convertible.
I just witnessed an old woman wearing joker make-up and jamming hard to music as she drove her convertible. Yes, I just saw my future.
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible.
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to "A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.").