Movable

Word MOVABLE
Character 7
Hyphenation mov a ble
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Movable"

What do we mean by movable?

Possible to move. adjective

Varying in date from year to year. adjective

Of or relating to personal property (that is, property that can be moved). adjective

Something, especially a piece of furniture, that can be moved. noun

Personal property. noun

Capable of being moved from place to place; admitting of being lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; hence, as applied to property, personal.

Capable of being transposed or otherwise changed in parts or details: as, in printing, a form of movable type.

Changing from one date to another in different years: as, a movable feast.

Fickle; inconstant.

Anything that can be moved, or that can readily be moved. noun

Specifically (generally in the plural), personal property; any species of property not fixed, and thus distinguished from houses and lands. noun

An article of furniture, as a chair, table, or the like, resting on the floor of a room. noun

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. noun

Property not attached to the soil. noun

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. adjective

Changing from one time to another. adjective

A letter that is pronounced, as opposed to one that is quiescent. adjective

A holy day that changes date, depending on the lunar cycle. An example of such a day is Easter. adjective

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. adjective

Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i.e. church festivals, whose date varies from year to year. adjective

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.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Movable

The word "movable" in example sentences

I have 5 websites and the following 3 blogs: callingtheshots. wordpress.com; evolvingboomers. com written in movable type; evolutionoftrading. blogspot.com ❋ Unknown (2006)

He decided to use his goldsmithing skills to mold what became known as movable type and to use type in his new printing press to print the one book he knew would sell -- the Bible. ❋ ITY National Archives (1995)

Houses and lands are not mentioned among the emir's wealth, as nomadic tribes dwell in movable tents and live chiefly by pasture, the right to the soil not being appropriated by individuals. ❋ Unknown (1871)

So wecould also call the movable boxes show "Hu" performance. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then, in mid-fifteenth-century Germany, printer Johannes Gutenberg happened upon a discovery: By creating type pieces out of metal -- known as movable type -- and arranging them to form words, you could make multiple copies of a document far faster than a monk could write. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I mean propositions in which the nature in question is found in any concrete body to be fleeting and movable, that is to say accruing or acquired, or on the other hand departing or put away. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The programmer liked the idea of movable “walls” that he could open and shut at whim. ❋ Kathleen Cox (2002)

It is the fulfilment of what is potential when it is already fully real and operates not as itself but as movable, that is motion. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

The power wanted is 6 horse, and movable, that is, on wheels. ❋ Various (N/A)

This condition is known as movable kidney, and is more common in the female than in the male. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Closely dependent upon Easter and gradually developing in number as time went on were other observances also belonging to the cycle of what we now call the movable feasts. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

When the primary is made movable, which is necessary in some experiments, and many times convenient for the purposes of adjustment, ❋ Nikola Tesla (1899)

The = ring = is stout, narrow, usually quite free from the stem, so that it can be moved up and down on the stem, and is called a movable ring. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

In that same year of King Charles 'Pragmatic Sanction (1438), though yet unknown to warring princes and wrangling churchmen, John Gutenberg, in a little German workshop, had evolved the idea of movable type, that is, of modern printing. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)

Zach Galifianakis (whose last name movable type hilariously spell-checks to egalitarianism or galileans) shows up in this coming Sunday's episode of ❋ Brian Ries (2010)

This is why power chords are referred to as movable chords ... and why they are so poplar, ❋ Unknown (2010)

We ought also to conclude that a certain body is more closely united to our mind than any other, because we clearly observe that pain and other sensations affect us without our foreseeing them; and these, the mind is conscious, do not arise from itself alone, nor pertain to it, in so far as it is a thing which thinks, but only in so far as it is united to another thing extended and movable, which is called the human body. ❋ Ren�� Descartes (1623)

Ice is generally harder to clear than snow, especially when equipment such as movable jetways — also known as aerobridges — freeze, industry officials say. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2010)

That "sporran" was really a kind of movable curtain or screen; and beneath it, Bowman was quite sure, would be the mouth, handily placed at the entrance to the stomach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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