movable

• moveable

From Old French movable. By surface analysis, move +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuːvəbəl/

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movable (not generally comparable, comparative more movable, superlative most movable)

1. 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.

2. Changing from one time to another.

   Synonym: floating

   Antonym: immovable

   This feast is movable - its date varies from year to year.

movable (plural movables)

1. 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.

• “movable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.