movable
from
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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from
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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from
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
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