Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to move.
- adjective Varying in date from year to year.
- adjective Law Of or relating to personal property (that is, property that can be moved).
- noun Something, especially a piece of furniture, that can be moved.
- noun Law Personal property.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being moved from place to place; admitting of being lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; hence, as applied to property, personal.
- Capable of being transposed or otherwise changed in parts or details: as, in printing, a form of
movable type. - Changing from one date to another in different years: as, a movable feast.
- Fickle; inconstant.
- noun Anything that can be moved, or that can readily be moved.
- noun Specifically (generally in the plural), personal property; any species of property not fixed, and thus distinguished from houses and lands.
- noun An article of furniture, as a chair, table, or the like, resting on the floor of a room.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun (Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil.
- adjective 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.
- adjective Changing from one time to another.
- adjective (Heb. Gram.) a letter that is pronounced, as opposed to one that is quiescent.
- adjective (Ecclesiastical) a holy day that changes date, depending on the lunar cycle. An example of such a day is
Easter .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
moved ,lifted ,carried ,drawn ,turned , orconveyed , or in any way made to changeplace orposture ;susceptible ofmotion ; notfixed orstationary ; as, a movable steam engine. - adjective Changing from one
time to another; as, movable feasts, i.e.church festivals , whose date varies from year to year. - noun Something which is movable; an article of
wares orgoods ; acommodity ; a piece ofproperty not fixed, or not a part ofreal estate ; generally, in the plural, goods; wares;furniture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
- adjective capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
- noun personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
Etymologies
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I have 5 websites and the following 3 blogs: callingtheshots. wordpress.com; evolvingboomers. com written in movable type; evolutionoftrading. blogspot.com
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He decided to use his goldsmithing skills to mold what became known as movable type and to use type in his new printing press to print the one book he knew would sell -- the Bible.
Vp Gore To G 7 Ministers Meeting On Gii ITY National Archives 1995
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Houses and lands are not mentioned among the emir's wealth, as nomadic tribes dwell in movable tents and live chiefly by pasture, the right to the soil not being appropriated by individuals.
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So wecould also call the movable boxes show "Hu" performance.
2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony: "Hu" performance 2008
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Then, in mid-fifteenth-century Germany, printer Johannes Gutenberg happened upon a discovery: By creating type pieces out of metal -- known as movable type -- and arranging them to form words, you could make multiple copies of a document far faster than a monk could write.
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I mean propositions in which the nature in question is found in any concrete body to be fleeting and movable, that is to say accruing or acquired, or on the other hand departing or put away.
The New Organon 2005
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The programmer liked the idea of movable “walls” that he could open and shut at whim.
The Power of Vastu Living Kathleen Cox 2002
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It is the fulfilment of what is potential when it is already fully real and operates not as itself but as movable, that is motion.
Physics Aristotle 2002
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The power wanted is 6 horse, and movable, that is, on wheels.
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This condition is known as movable kidney, and is more common in the female than in the male.
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