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البَلْعَم
عاجِزٌ عن
incapable of
be incapable of VB
عَيِيَ عن أو بِـ
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A device termed intrinsically safe is designed to be incapable of producing heat or spark sufficient to ignite an explosive atmosphere.
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This behaviour (having also previously been demonstrated in corvids) further disproves the previous belief that birds are incapable of self-control.
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He also has a distinctive view of concrete and abstract objects: the former can exist by themselves, and the latter are incapable of independent existence.
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Worse than non-verbal, the director is singularly anti-verbal, seemingly incapable of uttering anything in the way of self-analysis or of even wanting to.
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Some designers of recreational aircraft seek to develop an aircraft that is characteristically incapable of spinning, even in an uncoordinated stall.
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