moveable
English edit
Adjective edit
moveable
- Alternative spelling of movable
- 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:
- The portals are being constructed in situ, using a moveable mould that is made up of three parts. The inner form traveller supports the weight of the steel rebar and concrete as it is being poured and forms the inner shape of the portal. The external shape is formed by wall sections (assembled in situ) and a moveable arch-shaped outer section.
Noun edit
moveable (plural moveables)
- Alternative spelling of movable
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- And for these great affairs do ask some charge,
Towards our assistance we do seize to us
The plate, coin, revenues, and moveables,
Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd.