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tangible

/ˈtændʒəbəl/

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Stress “tan” and give “g” a soft “j” sound.

Use three syllables, with the short a vowel of cat at the beginning. Keep the remaining two vowels light as you move through juh into the final bul.

3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1

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The project produced a tangible result.

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

What does tangible mean?

adjective

  1. Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch.
  2. Perceptible; able to be perceived.
  3. Able to be treated as fact; real or concrete.
More meanings (3)

adjective

  1. Comprehensible by the mind; understandable.

noun

  1. A physical object; something that can be touched.
  2. Real or concrete results.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈtændʒəbəl/

Pronunciation used in the listening tip.

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.

In the pages of books

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A clear line of difference divided like a tangible fence her experience within this maze of motion from her experience without it.
Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativeProject Gutenberg ebook #122
Increase--a sort of royal prerogative, of tangible and consumable homage--is due to the proprietor on account of his nominal and metaphysical occupancy.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonWhat is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of GovernmentProject Gutenberg ebook #360
More book examples (3)
Throughout all the ages of early development, what we call "natural" disease and "natural" death meant the onslaught of a tangible enemy.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705
A man under such conditions needs something to occupy his thoughts, some tangible memento of his home and people beyond the seas.
Ernest Henry, Sir ShackletonSouth: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917Project Gutenberg ebook #5199
For some reason every tangible evidence of her father was banished, and she was at last to be allowed to take his place.
Gene Stratton-PorterA Girl of the LimberlostProject Gutenberg ebook #125