SOLUBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soluble mean? 

• SOLUBLE (adjective)
  The adjective SOLUBLE has 2 senses:

1. (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water)

2. susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained

  Familiarity information: SOLUBLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLUBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water)

Similar:

alcohol-soluble (soluble in alcohol)

dissoluble; dissolvable (capable of dissolving)

fat-soluble (soluble in fats)

disintegrable; meltable (capable of melting)

oil-soluble (soluble in oil)

water-soluble (soluble in water)

Antonym:

insoluble ((of a substance) incapable of being dissolved)

Derivation:

solubility (the quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid)

solubility (the quantity of a particular substance that can dissolve in a particular solvent (yielding a saturated solution))

solubleness (the property of being dissoluble)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Susceptible of solution or of being solved or explained

Context example:

the puzzle is soluble

Similar:

answerable (capable of being answered)

resolvable; solvable (capable of being solved)

Also:

explicable (capable of being explicated or accounted for)

Antonym:

insoluble (admitting of no solution or explanation)

Derivation:

solubility (the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve)

 Context examples 

A water-soluble vitamin belonging to the vitamin B family, which occurs in many animal and plant tissues, with antihyperlipidemic activity.

(Niacin, NCI Thesaurus)

ADAMTS proteins are soluble, extracellular matrix proteases.

(ADAM Type Metalloprotease Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A water-soluble, synthetic aziridinylbenzoquinone with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Aziridinylbenzoquinone RH1, NCI Thesaurus)

A natural water-soluble vitamin (Vitamin C).

(Ascorbic acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A lipid-based nanosomal formulation of the poorly soluble, semi-synthetic, second-generation taxane docetaxel, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Nanosomal Docetaxel Lipid Suspension, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of soluble proteins that initiate signaling pathways involved in the process of new blood vessel formation.

(Angiokine, NCI Thesaurus)

Lipid-soluble metoprine is capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier.

(Metoprine, NCI Thesaurus)

It is water-soluble (can dissolve in water) and must be taken in daily.

(Niacinamide, NCI Dictionary)

A patient-specific cancer vaccine directed against the soluble protein idiotype of an individual follicular lymphoma with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Autologous Follicular Lymphoma-Derived Idiotype Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

ELPs are useful biomaterials because they can undergo phase changes—go from a soluble to an insoluble state, or vice-versa—in response to changes in temperature.

(Biomaterial Artificial Protein Helps Heal Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)