Movable
['muːvəb(ə)l] or ['mʊvəbl]
Definition
(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) .
Typist: Lycurgus--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Patty
Synonyms and Antonyms
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Edited by Dorothy
Definition
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.
Typist: Lucinda
Examples
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the sea-urchins the steps can be followed by which a fixed spine becomes articulated to the shell, and is thus rendered movable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The types, placed upon a flat stone embedded in a movable table, were inked with large soft balls covered with pelts. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- As they were all going out again, he favoured her with one slight roll of his movable eye, desiring her to linger behind. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In Section 114, we obtained on a movable screen, by means of a simple lens, an image of a candle. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was set up in the printing-rooms of Dritzhn’s dwelling, and the firm went on with their work of cutting movable type. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Chinese Invented Both Block and Movable Types. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- By my directions the bed had been made, in the morning, on a strong movable framework of wood. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was an unpretentious oblong wooden structure erected in the laboratory yard, and had a movable roof in the central part. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Between the poles of a strong magnet suspend a movable coil which is connected with a sensitive galvanometer (Fig. 237). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Nor are they desirous to prolong their visit, packing the few movables with all possible speed and never speaking above a whisper. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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