Movable
['muːvəb(ə)l] or ['mʊvəbl]
解释:
(adj.) capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another .
(adj.) (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand) .
整理:莱克格斯--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) 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; as, a movable steam engine.
(a.) Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Property not attached to the soil.
校对:帕蒂
同义词及反义词：
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解释:
adj. that may be moved lifted changed &c.: not fixed: changing from one time to another.—n. an article of furniture.—ns. Movabil′ity Mov′ableness.—n.pl. Mo′vables (law) such articles of property as may be moved as furniture &c. in opposition to lands and houses.—adv. Mov′ably.
校对:露辛达
例句:
- The rods to be welded are placed in clamps C C′, C being connected with one terminal of the secondary conductor S, and the movable clamp C′ with the other. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- They were of different forms, but that most commonly in use consisted of an upright post and a transverse movable beam on which the seat was fitted or from which it was suspended by a chain. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In the sea-urchins the steps can be followed by which a fixed spine becomes articulated to the shell, and is thus rendered movable. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The types, placed upon a flat stone embedded in a movable table, were inked with large soft balls covered with pelts. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- As they were all going out again, he favoured her with one slight roll of his movable eye, desiring her to linger behind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Usually a delicate pointer is attached to the movable coil and rotates freely with it, so that the swing of the pointer indicates the relative values of the current. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- In Section 114, we obtained on a movable screen, by means of a simple lens, an image of a candle. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- It was set up in the printing-rooms of Dritzhn’s dwelling, and the firm went on with their work of cutting movable type. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Chinese Invented Both Block and Movable Types. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- By my directions the bed had been made, in the morning, on a strong movable framework of wood. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is a great step from the humble invention of Schoeffer five hundred and fifty years ago of cast movable type to that of another German, Mergenthaler, in 1890-92. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It was an unpretentious oblong wooden structure erected in the laboratory yard, and had a movable roof in the central part. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Between the poles of a strong magnet suspend a movable coil which is connected with a sensitive galvanometer (Fig. 237). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The cables are then passed over towers, on which they are supported in movable saddles, so that the towers are not overthrown by the strain on the cables. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Nor are they desirous to prolong their visit, packing the few movables with all possible speed and never speaking above a whisper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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