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mov·a·ble

also move·a·ble (mo͞o′və-bəl)

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 is, property that can be moved).

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

2. movables Law Personal property.

mov′a·bil′i·ty, mov′a·ble·ness n.

mov′a·bly adv.

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movable

(ˈmuːvəbəl) or

moveable

adj

1. able to be moved or rearranged; not fixed

2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) (esp of religious festivals such as Easter) varying in date from year to year

3. (Law) (usually speltmoveable) law denoting or relating to personal property as opposed to realty

4. (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

(Furniture) (often plural) a movable article, esp a piece of furniture

ˌmovaˈbility, ˈmoveability n

ˈmovableness, ˈmoveableness n

ˈmovably, ˈmoveably adv

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mov•a•ble

or move•a•ble

(ˈmu və bəl)

adj.

1. capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture.

2. Law. (of property) personal, as distinguished from real.

3. changing from one date to another in different years: a movable holiday.

[1350–1400; < Anglo-French]

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Noun	1.	movable - personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) chattel, personal chattel 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.	movable - capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable mobile - moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"

movable

adjective portable, mobile, transferable, detachable, not fixed, transportable, portative The wooden fence is movable

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movable

also moveable
adjective

Capable of moving or being moved from place to place:

mobile, moving, transportable, traveling.

noun

1. A piece of equipment for comfort or convenience:

appointment (used in plural), furnishing.

Chiefly British: fitting (used in plural).

2. Law. One's portable property.Often used in plural:

belonging (often used in plural), effect (used in plural), good (used in plural), lares and penates, personal effects, personal property, possession (used in plural), property, thing (often used in plural).

Informal: stuff.

Law: chattel.

Translations

pohyblivý

flytbar

móvil

mobile

hreyfanlegur, færanlegur

movable

[ˈmuːvəbl]

A. ADJ → movible, móvil
movable feast → fiesta f movible
not easily movable → nada fácil de mover

B. NPL movables → muebles mpl, mobiliario msing (Jur) → bienes mpl muebles

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movable

[ˈmuːvəb^əl] adj → mobile

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

movable

adj → beweglich (auch Jur, Eccl); (= transportable) → transportierbar, transportfähig; not easily movable → schwer zu bewegen/transportieren

(= portable object) → bewegliches Gut; movables pl → Mobiliar nt, → Mobilien pl

usu pl (Jur) → bewegliches Vermögen, Mobiliarvermögen nt

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movable

[ˈmuːvəbl] adj → mobile, movibile

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move

(muːv) verb

1. to (cause to) change position or go from one place to another. He moved his arm; Don't move!; Please move your car.

2. to change houses. We're moving on Saturday.

3. to affect the feelings or emotions of. I was deeply moved by the film.

noun

1. (in board games) an act of moving a piece. You can win this game in three moves.

2. an act of changing homes. How did your move go?

ˈmovable, ˈmoveable adjective

ˈmovement noun

1. (an act of) changing position or going from one point to another. The animal turned sideways with a swift movement.

2. activity. In this play there is a lot of discussion but not much movement.

3. the art of moving gracefully or expressively. She teaches movement and drama.

4. an organization or association. the Scout movement.

5. the moving parts of a watch, clock etc.

6. a section of a large-scale piece of music. the third movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

7. a general tendency towards a habit, point of view etc. There's a movement towards simple designs in clothing these days.

movie (-vi) noun

(especially American).

1. a cinema film. a horror movie.

2. (in plural. with the) the cinema and films in general: to go to the movies.

ˈmoving adjective

having an effect on the emotions etc. a very moving speech.

ˈmovingly adverb

get a move on

to hurry or move quickly. Get a move on, or you'll be late!

make a move

1. to move at all. If you make a move, I'll shoot you!

2. (with for or towards) to move (in the direction of). He made a move for the door.

move along

to keep moving, not staying in one place. The police told the crowd to move along.

move heaven and earth

to do everything that one possibly can.

move house

to change one's home or place of residence. They're moving house next week.

move in

to go into and occupy a house etc. We can move in on Saturday.

move off

(of vehicles etc) to begin moving away. The bus moved off just as I got to the bus stop.

move out

to leave, cease to live in, a house etc. She has to move out before the new owners arrive.

move up

to move in any given direction so as to make more space. Move up and let me sit down, please.

on the move

1. moving from place to place. With his kind of job, he's always on the move.

2. advancing. The frontiers of scientific knowledge are always on the move.

References in classic literature ?

"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 - "

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The movable stages were, of course, not very large, so sometimes more than one was needed for a play.

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Happily, Barbicane, not content with employing water, had furnished the movable disc with strong spring plugs, destined to lessen the shock against the base after the breaking of the horizontal partitions.

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Expert and reliable packers and movers were engaged to convey the furniture, carpets, pictures --everything movable, in short--to places of security.

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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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The preparation of mantlets, movable shelters, and various implements of war, will take up three whole months; and the piling up of mounds over against the walls will take three months more.

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The stalls were the old-fashioned style, too much on the slope; but he had two movable bars fixed across the back of our stalls, so that at night, and when we were resting, he just took off our halters and put up the bars, and thus we could turn about and stand whichever way we pleased, which is a great comfort.

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Naturally, whatever was movable about the place soon disappeared and the deserted house became "haunted" in the manner of its kind.

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They say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks--BUCHSTABE--hence the name.

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This dial with movable needle is a manometer, is it not?"

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He opened both the movable panes in his window and sat down to the table opposite the open panes.

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In shape, the Sleet's crow's-nest is something like a large tierce or pipe; it is open above, however, where it is furnished with a movable side-screen to keep to windward of your head in a hard gale.