movable
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
movable /ˈmuːvəbl/ (also moveable)
▶adjective
- 1 capable of being moved.
- 2 denoting a religious feast day that is variable in date from year to year.
- 3 Law (of property) of the nature of a chattel, as distinct from land or buildings.
– derivatives
movability noun,
movably adverb.
movability noun,
movably adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr., from moveir ‘to move’.
'movable' also found in these Oxford entries:
air brake
- ambulatory
- avatar
- bail
- battlement
- belongings
- bier
- boom
- chamber organ
- chattel mortgage
- compass
- cursor
- curtain
- damper
- derrick
- dumb waiter
- faldstool
- fixed-doh
- furniture
- gangplank
- gangway
- heliogram
- heliograph
- heliostat
- hinge
- jumping jack
- kinetin
- kineto-
- lizard
- mantlet
- monochord
- Morrison shelter
- movable-doh
- moveable
- porta-
- prusik
- puppet
- ramp
- semaphore
- sitar
- swell box
- tabernacle
- test
- tone arm
- tongs
- vernier
- vice
- visor
