| 单词 | immovable |
| 释义 | immovable (once / 1366 pages) adjn Immovable things can't be budged. While you can move a bicycle or a grocery cart or a balloon, a cement park bench is immovable. Many things are immovable because they're made to be that way: a car is designed to be immovable when it's shifted into "park," or when the emergency brake is pulled. Other things are only occasionally immovable, like your stubborn dog who becomes immovable every time you try to take him for a walk in the rain, rooted adamantly in the doorway as you pull on his leash. WORD FAMILYimmovable: immovability, immovableness, immovables, immovably+/countermove: countermoves/immoveable: immoveably/movable: immovable, movability, movableness, movables, movably, unmovable/move: countermove, movable, moveable, moved, movement, mover, moves, moving/moveable: immoveable, moveably/moved: unmoved/movement: movements/mover: movers/moving: movingly, nonmoving, self-moving, unmoving/unmovable: unmovably/unmoved: unmovedly/unmoving: unmovingly USAGE EXAMPLESThe unstoppable force of Trump’s ego met the immovable object of West’s self-absorption in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday. Slate(Dec 14, 2016) The symbolism of the boulder — Castro as an enduring, immovable, geological force — is hardly subtle. Washington Post(Dec 03, 2016) This game offers the always popular irresistible force vs. immovable object. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1adj not able or intended to be moved the immovable hills Syn immoveable, stabile, unmovable immobile not capable of movement or of being moved 2n property consisting of houses and land Syn|Hypo|Hyper real estate, real property, realty acres, demesne, estate, land, landed estate extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use landthe land on which real estate is located dead hand, mortmainreal property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) freeholdan estate held in fee simple or for life glebeplot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office leaseholdland or property held under a lease smallholdinga piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation homesteadland acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law farmsteadthe buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm homesteadthe home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family no man's landland that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable) feoff, fiefa piece of land held under the feudal system baronythe estate of a baron countryseatan estate in the country Crown landland that belongs to the Crown manorthe landed estate of a lord (including the house on it) seigneury, seigniory, signorythe estate of a seigneur haciendaa large estate in Spanish-speaking countries plantationan estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) entailland received by fee tail belongings, holding, property something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone |
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