movable
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Etymology edit
From Old French movable. By surface analysis, move + -able.
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movable (comparative more movable, superlative most movable)
- Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary
- 1902, Henry Billings Brown, The Osceola:
- The owners had supplied the vessel with a movable derrick for the purpose of raising the gangways of the vessel when in port, in order to discharge cargo.
- Changing from one time to another
- This feast is movable - its date varies from year to year.
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capable of being moved
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changing from one time to another
Noun edit
movable (plural movables)
- 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.
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something movable
References edit
- “movable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.