Associations to the word «Tangible»

Wiktionary

TANGIBLE, adjective. Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch; palpable.
TANGIBLE, adjective. Possible to be treated as fact; real or concrete.
TANGIBLE, adjective. Comprehensible by the mind; understandable.
TANGIBLE, noun. Real or concrete results.
TANGIBLE ASSET, noun. (accounting) Any asset, such as buildings, land, equipment etc. that has physical form.
TANGIBLE ASSETS, noun. Plural of tangible asset

Dictionary definition

TANGIBLE, adjective. Perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch; "skin with a tangible roughness".
TANGIBLE, adjective. Capable of being treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor".
TANGIBLE, adjective. (of especially business assets) having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value ; "tangible property like real estate"; "tangible assets such as machinery".
TANGIBLE, adjective. Capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt; "a barely palpable dust"; "felt sudden anger in a palpable wave"; "the air was warm and close--palpable as cotton"; "a palpable lie".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats