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   Mov·a·ble

   /ˈmo͞ovəb(ə)l/

   

   adjective

   • 1. capable of being moved: "they stripped the town of all movable objects and fled" Similar portabletransportabletransferablemobileadjustableflexibledetachablerare:portativeOpposite immovable
   • ▪ (of a feast or festival) variable in date from year to year: "a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts, both fixed and movable" Similar variablechangeablealterableunfixedfloatingOpposite fixedimmovable
   • 2. (of property) of the nature of a chattel, as distinct from land or buildings: "a man of sufficient movable property but with hardly any land"

   noun

   • 1. property or possessions not including land or buildings: "in many cases the movables are the facilities and stock-in-trade of a business"
   • ▪ an article of furniture that may be removed from a house, as distinct from a fixture: "all the movables have been removed and the roof has fallen in"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, from moveir ‘to move’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. movability noun
   • 2. movably adverb

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   What does movable mean?

   • capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture. not permanent in reference to place; capable of being moved without injury. personal, as distinguished from real. a movable holiday. (of type or matrices) able to be rearranged. an article of furniture that is not fixed in place.

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   What is a movable bridge?

   • 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. Movable definition: capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture..

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   What is a movable holiday?

   • a movable holiday. (of type or matrices) able to be rearranged. an article of furniture that is not fixed in place. Often movables.Law. an article of personal property not attached to land. A movable diaphragm is attached to a fixed plate, and both are charged and have electrodes attached.

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   What is a movable hall used for?

   • The hall's movable seating and flooring will allow it to be used as performance space for traveling stage shows. It has a movable wooden bridge that, as in banjos, holds the strings over the skin head. The red lights belong to the movable service tower, photographed in long exposure as it moved away from the launch pad.

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   Movable can be an adjective meaning capable of being moved or a noun meaning a piece of property that can be moved. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and legal usage of movable.

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   capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture. Law. (of property) not permanent in reference to place; capable of being moved without injury. personal, as distinguished from real. changing from one date to another in different years: a movable holiday. (of type or matrices) able to be rearranged.

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   Movable means able to be moved or changed position. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts with examples from the Cambridge Dictionary and other sources.

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   capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another. synonyms: moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable. mobile. moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place) adjective. (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand) synonyms: portable.

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   Movable means able to be moved or changed position. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and other sources.

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   4 days ago · 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 spelt moveable) law. denoting or relating to personal property as opposed to realty. 4. printing.

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   Movable means capable of being moved or rearranged, or varying in date from year to year. It can also refer to personal property, printing type, or a piece of furniture. See synonyms, antonyms, and translations of movable.