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   movable

   /ˈmuːvəbl/

   adjective

   • 1. capable of being moved: "they stripped the town of all movable objects and fled" Similar portabletransportabletransferablemobileadjustableflexibledetachablerare:portativeOpposite immovable
   • ▪ (of a feast or festival) variable in date from year to year: "a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts, both fixed and movable" Similar variablechangeablealterableunfixedfloatingOpposite fixedimmovable
   • 2. (of property) of the nature of a chattel, as distinct from land or buildings: "a man of sufficient movable property but with hardly any land"

   noun

   • 1. property or possessions not including land or buildings: "in many cases the movables are the facilities and stock-in-trade of a business"
   • ▪ an article of furniture that may be removed from a house, as distinct from a fixture: "all the movables have been removed and the roof has fallen in"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, from moveir ‘to move’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. movability noun
   • 2. movably adverb

   Scrabble Points: 14

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   • 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. A movable diaphragm is attached to a fixed plate, and both are charged and have electrodes attached.

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   How do you get movables to move?

   • Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024 For those who want to boss around inanimate objects verbally, a voice command would also get the movables moving. Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023 Islands, some movable, are light gray or dark wood. Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023 See all Example Sentences for movable

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   movable: [noun] something (such as an article of furniture) that can be removed or displaced.

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   MOVABLE definition: 1. able to be moved: 2. able to be moved: 3. able to be moved: . Learn more.

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   Movable definition: capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture.. See examples of MOVABLE used in a sentence.

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   5 meanings: 1. able to be moved or rearranged; not fixed 2. (esp of religious festivals such as Easter) varying in date from.... Click for more definitions.

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   movable: 1 adj capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another Synonyms: moveable , transferable , transferrable , transportable mobile moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place) adj (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand) Synonyms: ...

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   MOVABLE meaning: 1. able to be moved: 2. able to be moved: 3. able to be moved: . Learn more.

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   Define movable. movable synonyms, movable pronunciation, movable translation, English dictionary definition of movable. also move·a·ble adj. 1. Possible to move: a movable stove; a movable rock. 2.