MOVABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does movable mean? 

• MOVABLE (noun)
  The noun MOVABLE has 1 sense:

1. personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

  Familiarity information: MOVABLE used as a noun is very rare.

• MOVABLE (adjective)
  The adjective MOVABLE has 2 senses:

1. (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)

2. capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another

  Familiarity information: MOVABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOVABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

chattel; movable; personal chattel

Hypernyms ("movable" is a kind of...):

personal estate; personal property; personalty; private property (movable property (as distinguished from real estate))

Domain category:

auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)

article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)

• MOVABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)

Similar:

portable (easily or conveniently transported)

Derivation:

movableness (the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged)

move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another

Synonyms:

movable; moveable; transferable; transferrable; transportable

Similar:

mobile (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place))

Derivation:

movability; movableness (the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged)

move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

 Context examples 

One of the saddles has a movable horn, and can be easily adapted for Mina, if required.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The joint may be fixed or movable.

(Joint, NCI Thesaurus)

A pivoting roller or wheel designed to attach to an object to make it movable.

(Caster Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A control device that uses a movable handle to create two-axis input for a computer device.

(Joystick Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

To find out, they gathered bees from the wild and put them in a container in their lab where they were allowed to form a cluster, dangling from a movable apparatus.

(Bees Help Researchers Confirm Theory about Maintaining Protective Clumps under Tough Conditions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

On those occasions, when a servant had given me notice, my custom was to go immediately to the door, and, after paying my respects, to take up the coach and two horses very carefully in my hands (for, if there were six horses, the postillion always unharnessed four,) and place them on a table, where I had fixed a movable rim quite round, of five inches high, to prevent accidents.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)