movable
or move·a·ble
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.
an article of furniture that is not fixed in place.
Often movables. Law. an article of personal property not attached to land.
Origin of movable
1Other words from movable
- 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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How to use movable in a sentence
A movable diaphragm is attached to a fixed plate, and both are charged and have electrodes attached.
The shape of things to come: Different types of microphones and when to use them | Mike Levine | August 26, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAfter trading eight veterans at the deadline, leaving them with a 40-man roster full of many movable pieces, they are already much more willing to take a flier on waivers and see what happens.
After big moves at trade deadline, Nationals’ waiver claims show a shift in their thinking | Jesse Dougherty | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostThe sprayer is more movable than other bidets, which makes it optimal for all-around cleaning.
So classrooms are divided by movable walls, allowing students to combine for some lessons, and for students to interact with different teachers.
The new child tax credit could lift more than 5 million kids out of poverty. Can it help them learn, too? | Moriah Balingit | July 13, 2021 | Washington PostOftentimes, there’s therapeutic components, behavior changes, and movable touchpoints.
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Somewhere 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 | THE DAILY BEASTFor 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.
Dope | Sax RohmerThe movable hour circle and driving wheel of the Crossley reflector has two sets of graduations.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters | James Edward KeelerOld and new measurements, tonnage, time allowances and movable ballast, are all a sealed book to me.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsThe altar, probably a small movable one of wood, if any at all, must have stood before the presbyter.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowThe movable bridge in its closed position must be proportioned like a fixed bridge, but it has also other conditions to fulfil.
British Dictionary definitions for movable
moveable
/ (ˈmuːvəbəl) /
able 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
(often plural) a movable article, esp a piece of furniture
Derived forms of movable
- movability or movableness, noun
- movably, adverb
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