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movable

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mov·a·ble also move·a·ble  (mv-bl)
adj.
1. Possible to move: a movable stove; a movable rock.
2. Varying in date from year to year: a movable holiday.
3. Law Of or relating to personal property that can be moved.
n.
1. Something, especially a piece of furniture, that can be moved.
2. Law Personal property. Often used in the plural.

mova·bili·ty, mova·ble·ness n.
mova·bly adv.

movable or moveable
Adjective
1. able to be moved; not fixed
2. (of a festival, esp. Easter) varying in date from year to year
Noun
movables movable articles, esp. furniture
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.movable - personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine - a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"
article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniture - furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room"
personal estate, personal property, personalty, private property - movable property (as distinguished from real estate)
Adj.1.movable - (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
portable - easily or conveniently transported; "a portable television set"
2.movablemovable - capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
mobile - moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"

movable
Translations

movable [ˈmuːvəbl] adjmovible
movable [ˈmuːvəbl] adjmobile
movable [ˈmuːvəbl] adjbeweglich;
movable feast → beweglicher Feiertag m
movable [ˈmuːvəbl] adjmobile


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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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