The study of phenomena that can be touched, handled, and manipulated directly—the sciences of the material world. Tangible sciences include classical engineering (bridges you can walk on), materials science (metals you can hold), and most of biology as applied to things you can pick up (rocks, plants, dead things). These sciences are satisfying because you can feel your results—a stronger beam, a purer crystal, a heavier rock. They're also increasingly supplemented by intangible sciences, which study things you can't touch but can still affect you. Tangible sciences are what we evolved to understand; intangible sciences are what we built to go beyond our evolutionary limits.
Example: "He chose tangible sciences because he liked making things he could hold—alloys, ceramics, composite materials. His office was full of samples: a titanium rod here, a carbon fiber sheet there. When his colleagues in theoretical physics talked about strings and branes, he showed them a piece of metal he'd made. They were impressed, though neither understood the other's work."
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Hym "Wouldn't it be better if Supertwink's Tangible/Intangible Gay Boyfriend was really the villain? He's obsessed with Superboy so he resolves to augment the red kryptonite he finds one day and turns it pink in a lab accident that results in him becoming both tangible and intangible.
Hym "Wouldn't it be better if Supertwink's Tangible/Intangible Gay Boyfriend was really the villain? He's obsessed with Superboy so he resolves to augment the red kryptonite he finds one day and turns it pink in a lab accident that results in him becoming both tangible and intangible.
Then he uses the pink kryptonite to turn superboy gay and get superboy to molest his butthole. But Superman thinks something is amiss. He found himself suspiciously horny around that gay dude. So he enlists Batman to follow him. Who is this tangible/intangible gay man and why have they never heard of someone with such an overwhelming power? So they investigate and the truth is revealed but WHAT COULD THEY POSSIBLY DO AGAINST SOMEONE WHO IS NOT TANGIBLE!? So they are left to fight superboy to try and get him away from the pink kryptonite but OH NO! Supertwink's Tangible/Intangible Gay Boyfriend doesn't have to deal with molecular entanglement! Molecules that aren't his are displaced when he becomes tangible! Even the Kryptonian's hyper-dense molecular structure isn't safe from molecular displacement! It's ok! Batman called a friend 30 minutes ago. Barry Allen comes flying in 'Sorry I'm late!' Barry can ALSO pass through solid objects and is able to vibrate hus molecules so that Supertwink's Tangible/Intangible Gay Boyfriend can't permeate through Barry's body! Supertwink's Tangible/Intangible Gay Boyfriend is defeated! Superboy is traumatized from being used and molested! Bring him some whores to spite Hym! That'll make it all better!"
by Hym Iam March 11, 2023
Get the Supertwink's Tangible/Intangible Gay Boyfriend mug.The thought, "The body is a physical manifestation of the soul", can also be expressed as "The body tangibleizes the soul".
Examples of things which "tangibleize" an invisible thing—such as a thought—are words, drawings, photographs, images, and sculptures or 3-D models because those things have transformed a thought or feeling into a visible or tangible representation of them.
And though spoken words manifest thoughts, no one can see a spoken word. To make a word visible, it must be written or typed. Then it can be moved around in a text. Though it is not possible to touch or hold written word per se, they can be said to be tangible because when written, they can be sent in a letter or email, or when printed on a paper or in a book, carried.
Examples of things which "tangibleize" an invisible thing—such as a thought—are words, drawings, photographs, images, and sculptures or 3-D models because those things have transformed a thought or feeling into a visible or tangible representation of them.
And though spoken words manifest thoughts, no one can see a spoken word. To make a word visible, it must be written or typed. Then it can be moved around in a text. Though it is not possible to touch or hold written word per se, they can be said to be tangible because when written, they can be sent in a letter or email, or when printed on a paper or in a book, carried.
by but for June 24, 2018
Get the tangibleize mug.The thought, "The body is a physical manifestation of the soul", can also be expressed as "The body tangibleizes the soul".
Examples of things which "tangibleize" an invisible thing—such as a thought—are words, drawings, photographs, images, and sculptures or 3-D models because those things have transformed a thought or feeling into a visible or tangible representation of them.
And though spoken words manifest thoughts, no one can see a spoken word. To make a word visible, it must be written or typed. Then it can be moved around in a text. Though it is not possible to touch or hold written word per se, they can be said to be tangible because when written, they can be sent in a letter or email, or when printed on a paper or in a book, carried.
Examples of things which "tangibleize" an invisible thing—such as a thought—are words, drawings, photographs, images, and sculptures or 3-D models because those things have transformed a thought or feeling into a visible or tangible representation of them.
And though spoken words manifest thoughts, no one can see a spoken word. To make a word visible, it must be written or typed. Then it can be moved around in a text. Though it is not possible to touch or hold written word per se, they can be said to be tangible because when written, they can be sent in a letter or email, or when printed on a paper or in a book, carried.
by but for June 24, 2018
Get the tangibleize mug.The thought, "The body is a physical manifestation of the soul", can also be expressed as "The body tangibleizes the soul".
Examples of things which "tangibleize" an invisible thing—such as a thought—are words, drawings, photographs, images, and sculptures or 3-D models because those things have transformed a thought or feeling into a visible or tangible representation of them.
And though spoken words manifest thoughts, no one can see a spoken word. To make a word visible, it must be written or typed. Then it can be moved around in a text. Though it is not possible to touch or hold written word per se, they can be said to be tangible because when written, they can be sent in a letter or email, or when printed on a paper or in a book, carried.
Examples of things which "tangibleize" an invisible thing—such as a thought—are words, drawings, photographs, images, and sculptures or 3-D models because those things have transformed a thought or feeling into a visible or tangible representation of them.
And though spoken words manifest thoughts, no one can see a spoken word. To make a word visible, it must be written or typed. Then it can be moved around in a text. Though it is not possible to touch or hold written word per se, they can be said to be tangible because when written, they can be sent in a letter or email, or when printed on a paper or in a book, carried.
by but for June 24, 2018
Get the tangibleize mug.Pertaining to the modern rebirth of 'pamphleteering', the distribution of physical paper pamphlets which describe political isues of the day, and typically conatian a call to get involved. 'tangibe' draws a distinction between person-to-person distribution of physical media, as opposed to modern online methods of communication.
Or, pertaining to the 'retro' aspect of grasroots political movement using pamphlets and traditional print media, and vaguely in the style of the French Enlightenment period. Etymology: tangible.
Or, pertaining to the 'retro' aspect of grasroots political movement using pamphlets and traditional print media, and vaguely in the style of the French Enlightenment period. Etymology: tangible.
A girl handed me a whitepaper on health care.....it was so tangibe! I was impressed by her dedication.
by JohnRockett July 9, 2009
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