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movable, moveable [ˈmuːvəbəl] adj 1. able to be moved or rearranged; not fixed 2. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) (esp of religious festivals such as Easter) varying in date from year to year 3. (Law) (usually spelt moveable) Law denoting or relating to personal property as opposed to realty 4. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing (of type) cast singly so that each character is on a separate piece of type suitable for composition by hand, as founder's type n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) (often plural) a movable article, esp a piece of furniture movability , movableness n movably adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
movable adjective portable, mobile, transferable, detachable, not fixed, transportable, portative The wooden fence is movable Translations movable adj → beweglich (auch Jur, Eccl); (= transportable) → transportierbar, transportfähig; not easily movable → schwer zu bewegen/transportieren n usu pl (Jur) → bewegliches Vermögen, Mobiliarvermögen nt How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"As to my personal or movable property, so called because it can be moved, as is so well explained by my learned friend the bishop of Vannes - " (D'Artagnan shuddered at the dismal remembrance attached to that name) - the procureur continued imperturbably - "they consist - " Expert and reliable packers and movers were engaged to convey the furniture, carpets, pictures --everything movable, in short--to places of security. It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history. |
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