[syn: movable, moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Movable \Mov"a*ble\, n.; pl. Movables.
1. 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.]
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Furnished with the most rich and princely movables.
--Evelyn.
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2. (Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Movable \Mov"a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. movable. See Move.]
1. 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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2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i.
e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year
to year.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
movable
adj 1: (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be
moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
2: capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
[syn: movable, moveable, transferable, transferrable,
transportable]
n 1: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable
property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn:
chattel, personal chattel, movable]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "movable":
able to adapt, accessible, adaptable, adjustable, alterable,
alterative, amenable, assignable, changeable, changeful, checkered,
communicable, conductive, consignable, contagious, conveyable,
ever-changing, expressable, flexible, floating, fluid, impartable,
impermanent, impressionable, influenceable, interchangeable,
kaleidoscopic, mailable, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic,
metathetic, mobile, modifiable, motile, moveable, moving, mutable,
nonuniform, open, open-minded, permutable, persuadable,
persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, portable,
portative, protean, proteiform, receptive, removable, resilient,
responsive, roving, rubbery, suasible, suggestible, supple,
susceptible, swayable, transferable, transfusable, transient,
transitory, transmissible, transmissive, transmittable,
transportable, transportative, transposable, unfixed, unstable,
unsteadfast, unsteady, variable, weak