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movable

or move·a·ble

[ moo-vuh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture.
  2. Law. (of property)
    1. not permanent in reference to place; capable of being moved without injury.
    2. personal, as distinguished from real.
  3. changing from one date to another in different years:

    a movable holiday.

  4. (of type or matrices) able to be rearranged.


noun

  1. an article of furniture that is not fixed in place.
  2. Often movables. Law. an article of personal property not attached to land.

movable

/ ˈmuːvəbəl /

adjective

  1. able to be moved or rearranged; not fixed
  2. (esp of religious festivals such as Easter) varying in date from year to year
  3. usually speltmoveable law denoting or relating to personal property as opposed to realty
  4. printing (of type) cast singly so that each character is on a separate piece of type suitable for composition by hand, as founder's type


noun

  1. often plural a movable article, esp a piece of furniture

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Derived Forms

  • ˈmovably, adverb
  • ˌmovaˈbility, noun

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Other Words From

  • mova·bili·ty mova·ble·ness noun
  • mova·bly adverb
  • nonmov·a·bili·ty noun
  • non·mova·ble adjective
  • non·mova·ble·ness noun
  • non·mova·bly adverb
  • un·mova·ble adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of movable1

1350–1400; Middle English mevable, movable < Anglo-French movable. See move, -able

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Example Sentences

Somewhere in there is what activists call the “movable middle.”

For many years he wrote the Movable Buffet blog and print column for the Los Angeles Times.

For many years Abowitz wrote Movable Buffet blog and print column for Los Angeles Times.

Abowitz is perhaps best known for writing the Movable Buffet blog and continuing print column for Los Angeles Times.

Richard Abowitz is on the staff of Las Vegas Weekly and writes the Movable Buffet blog and column for Los Angeles Times.

This Sin Sin Wa disturbed sufficiently to reveal a movable slab in the roughly paved floor.

The movable hour circle and driving wheel of the Crossley reflector has two sets of graduations.

Old and new measurements, tonnage, time allowances and movable ballast, are all a sealed book to me.

The altar, probably a small movable one of wood, if any at all, must have stood before the presbyter.

The movable bridge in its closed position must be proportioned like a fixed bridge, but it has also other conditions to fulfil.

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