Crossword clues for movable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Movable \Mov"a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. movable. See Move.]
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Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. [Also spelled moveable.]
Syn: transferable, transferrable, transportable.
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Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
Movable letter (Heb. Gram.), a letter that is pronounced, as opposed to one that is quiescent.
Movable feast (Ecclesiastical), a holy day that changes date, depending on the lunar cycle. An example of such a day is Easter.
Movable \Mov"a*ble\, n.; pl. Movables.
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An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture. [Also spelled moveable.]
Furnished with the most rich and princely movables.
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(Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil.
Note: The word is not convertible with personal property, since rents and similar incidents of the soil which are personal property by our law are immovables by the Roman law.
--Wharton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of being moved, lifted, carry, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2 Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i.e. church festivals, whose date varies from year to year. alt. 1 Capable of being moved, lifted, carry, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2 Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i.e. church festivals, whose date varies from year to year. n. Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
WordNet
adj. (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another [syn: moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "movable".
They knew there would be acceleration again, if the Movable Feast were not to plummet through the inside surface of the habitat and out into space.
Each arytenoid is movable on the cricoid and is connected with one end of a vocal cord.
She helped me wrestle Thandbar to the floor before I began a twisting, pushing, turning circumambulation of the device, moving everything movable upon it.
Circumscribed lipoma appears as a lobulated soft tumor, more or less movable, lying beneath the skin.
Bastianelli discusses those cases in which portions of the liver, having been constricted from the general body of the organ and remaining attached by a pedicle, give rise to movable tumors of the abdomen.
In the villages of Picher, Bresegard, and others the people used to have movable thresholds at the house-doors, which, being fitted into the door-posts, could be shoved up.
They had movable tops and counters, and their shelves were stocked with hundreds of varieties of books.
Robert had killed a curious animal belonging to the order EDENTATA, an armadillo, a sort of tatou, covered with a hard bony shell, in movable pieces, and measuring a foot and a half long.
The more luxurious departed by another door to the tepidarium, a place which was heated to a voluptuous warmth, partly by a movable fireplace, principally by a suspended pavement, beneath which was conducted the caloric of the laconicum.
When the French explorers entered it, it was a valley of aboriginal, anarchic individualism, with little movable spots of barbaric communistic timocracy, as Plato would doubtless have classified those migratory, predatory kingdoms of the hundreds of red kings, contemporary with King Donnacona, whom Cartier found on the St.
Do you think you can better yourselves, on that subject, by leaving us here under no obligation whatever to return those specimens of your movable property that come hither?
One of the disks is movable longitudinally on its shaft, and with the brushes clear of the serrations the clutch is free.
They could not reach the palisades in the face of the withering fire from the musketoon, so they constructed a movable palisade of trees, behind which marched the entire band of warriors.
The end of the bridge which rested on the right bank of the Mercy was to be firm, but the other end on the left bank was to be movable, so that it might be raised by means of a counterpoise, as some canal bridges are managed.
Already I regretted having put my drum to bed in one of these movable laundry baskets full of undeliverable mail.