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[ moo-vuh-buhl ] / ˈmu və bəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR movable ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivecapable 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. nounan article of furniture that is not fixed in place. Often movables. Law. an article of personal property not attached to land. Origin of movable1350–1400; Middle English mevable, movable<Anglo-French movable.See move, -able OTHER WORDS FROM movablemov·a·bil·i·ty, mov·a·ble·ness, nounmov·a·bly, adverbnon·mov·a·bil·i·ty, nounnon·mov·a·ble, adjective non·mov·a·ble·ness, nounnon·mov·a·bly, adverbun·mov·a·ble, adjective Words nearby movablemouthwash, mouth-watering, mouthy, mouton, moutonnée, movable, movable-do system, movable feast, movable joint, movable testis, movable type Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for movableSomewhere in there is what activists call the “movable middle.” Is Caring About Climate Change an Essential Part of LGBT Identity?|Jay Michaelson|September 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST For many years he wrote the Movable Buffet blog and print column for the Los Angeles Times. Are Gigolos Real?|Richard Abowitz|May 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST For many years Abowitz wrote Movable Buffet blog and print column for Los Angeles Times. Why Porn Stars Love Twitter|Richard Abowitz|January 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST Abowitz is perhaps best known for writing the Movable Buffet blog and continuing print column for Los Angeles Times. Top 5 Reasons Porn-for-Profit Is Dying|Richard Abowitz|January 10, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Richard Abowitz is on the staff of Las Vegas Weekly and writes the Movable Buffet blog and column for Los Angeles Times. The Men in the Mirror|Richard Abowitz|October 14, 2009|DAILY BEAST The date of Easter regulates the dates of the other movable feasts. Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240|Anonymous Arising out of them, the idea of movable types had long been invented and developed on the Continent. Oxford and its Story|Cecil Headlam Conjecturing that the panel might be a movable one, I began to search for the spring. The Shadow of the Czar|John R. Carling Also, by a deformity or a movable lump, caused by the broken end of the bone. Manual of Military Training|James A. Moss All the movable art treasures were taken away and placed in safety (photo p. 33). Amiens Before and During the War|Michelin & Cie
British Dictionary definitions for movable
adjectiveable to be moved or rearranged; not fixed (esp of religious festivals such as Easter) varying in date from year to year (usually spelt moveable) law denoting or relating to personal property as opposed to realty 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(often plural) a movable article, esp a piece of furniture Derived forms of movablemovability or movableness, nounmovably, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to movablemobile, ambulatory, portable, motile, adaptable, adjustable, loose, moving, removable, separable, transferable, unattached, unsteady, conveyable, deployable, detachable, liftable, portative, shiftable, turnable |