reliable
English
Etymology
From Scottish raliabill, itself from to rely + -able
Pronunciation
Adjective
reliable (comparative more reliable, superlative most reliable)
- Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence or reliance; trustworthy
- Andrews Norton
- a reliable witness to the truth of the miracles
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- the best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object
- Washington Irving
- According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs.
- Andrews Norton
- (signal processing, of a communication protocol) Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't
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fit to be relied on
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See also
- Reliability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Noun
reliable (plural reliables)
- Something or someone reliable or dependable
- the old reliables
Translations
someone to be relied on
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something reliable or dependable
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