moveable

[moo-vuh-buh l]

adjective, noun

movable.

Related formsun·move·a·ble, adjective

movable

or move·a·ble

[moo-vuh-buh l]

adjective

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.

noun

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

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

Related formsmov·a·bil·i·ty, mov·a·ble·ness, nounmov·a·bly, adverbnon·mov·a·bil·i·ty, nounnon·mov·a·ble, adjectivenon·mov·a·ble·ness, nounnon·mov·a·bly, adverbun·mov·a·ble, adjective

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Examples from the Web for moveable

Contemporary Examples of moveable

“He did have a point, though, and I knew it very well,” Hemingway wrote in A Moveable Feast.
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Jimmy So
July 17, 2011
This week: a restored edition of A Moveable Feast, a screwball romance, and an epic biography of Lance Armstrong.
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July 14, 2009

Historical Examples of moveable

On the under surface of the body we find a quantity of moveable appendages.
On the Genesis of Species
St. George Mivart
We have set apart a tenth of those things which were moveable.
Stories From Livy
Alfred Church
He is a moveable prison, and his hands two manacles hard to be filed off.
Microcosmography
John Earle
There had been time to move the most valuable effects which were moveable.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The nature, indeed, of the character is such, that moveable types would scarcely be practicable.
Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton
John Barrow

British Dictionary definitions for moveable

movable

moveable

adjective

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

noun

(often plural) a movable article, esp a piece of furniture

Derived Formsmovability or movableness, nounmovably, adverb

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Word Origin and History for moveable

movable

adj.

also moveable, late 14c., "disposed to movement;" c.1400, "capable of being moved," from Old French movable, from moveir (see move (v.)). 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. Related: Movability.