Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
movable
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French movable. By surface analysis, move + -able.
Pronunciation
Adjective
movable (comparative more movable, superlative most movable)
- Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary.
- Synonyms: mobile; see also Thesaurus:movable
- Antonyms: immovable; see also Thesaurus:immobile
- 1902, Henry Billings Brown, The Osceola:
- The owners had supplied the vessel with a movable derrick for the purpose of raising the gangways of the vessel when in port, in order to discharge cargo.
- Changing from one time to another.
Derived terms
Translations
capable of being moved
|
Noun
movable (plural movables)
- Something which is movable; 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.
Translations
References
- “movable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Remove ads
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads