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movables

[moo-vuh-buhl] Origin

mov·a·ble

[moo-vuh-buhl]
adjective
1.
capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture.
2.
Law. (of property)
a.
not permanent in reference to place; capable of being moved without injury.
b.
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
5.
an article of furniture that is not fixed in place.
6.
Often, movables. Law. an article of personal property not attached to land.

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Movables is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Also, moveable.


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

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
EXPAND
non·mov·a·b·ly, adverb
un·mov·a·ble, adjective
COLLAPSE
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movable
also moveable, late 14c., from O.Fr. movable, from moveir (see move). A moveable feast (early 15c.) is one in the Church calendar which, though always on the same day of the week, varies its date from year to year.
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