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Definition of movable in English: movable(also moveable) adjective ˈmuːvəb(ə)lˈmuvəb(ə)l 1Capable of being moved. they stripped the town of all movable objects and fled Example sentencesExamples - Wind instruments are tuned by adjustment to the length of tubing, using the tuning-slide on a brass instrument, the staple of the reed on an oboe, or the movable top joint of a flute, etc.
- I imagined a future me, rolling down the aisles of the Target store in my moveable chair thing that I bought, my dutiful husband lugging my oxygen tank, trying to keep up with me.
- In the first, a movable die travels horizontally towards a similar stationary die.
- In England, France and Germany magic lanterns, moveable gauze screens and transparencies had been used to experiment with light on stage since the seventeenth century.
- Over the past dozen years this Steinbach lawyer has dedicated his efforts to research the lineage of Mennonites throughout their moveable history from country to country.
- You want furniture that is of course kid-size, but you also want it to be easily moveable and light-weight enough so that the children themselves can move it around as necessary.
- Storm windows should have weatherstripping at all moveable joints; be made of strong, durable materials; and have interlocking or overlapping joints.
- The pool was closed for two weeks in February, including half-term week, for a complete overhaul of the electrics, pool filters and the mechanics of the moveable floor.
- The synovial joints are the most freely movable joints.
- The council wants the agency to re-consider the installation of moveable flood walls around the Shallows in the centre of the village, because of concerns about the visual impact of permanent flood banks.
- The search for solutions to this problem led to the development of mobile computers mounted on mobile or movable facilities.
- In trying to recover from the turbulence, the first officer moved the rudder, the big fin on the back of the tail fin, the moveable piece, back and forth, back and forth.
- The cost of a move in a building with a raised floor and movable partitions would be closer to $166 than to $3,640.
- Lightweight is the basic reason for using aluminum in all types of transportation equipment, as well as in moving and movable parts in general.
- There are three kinds of freely movable joints that play a big part in voluntary movement.
- One of the unique features about this museum is that the exhibits are in moveable cases so we can take them out and transform the function area.
- Once orbiting the Earth the crew delicately manoeuvred a 100 ft movable crane tipped with lasers and a camera to inspect the wings and nose for damage.
- The first mechanical element is movable relative to the casing, between an engaged position and a disengaged position.
- Padlocks provide portable security for movable items such as bikes and boats and in locations such as lockers and outdoor sheds.
- The school's performance center will have moveable seating so auditorium-type settings can be easily converted mechanically to settings suitable for small work groups.
Synonyms portable, transportable, transferable mobile adjustable, flexible, detachable rare portative - 1.1 (of a feast or festival) variable in date from year to year.
a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts, both fixed and movable Example sentencesExamples - Meskel, or the Festival of the True Cross, is celebrated on moveable days in late September.
- It was here that the notion of Vote for Change as a moveable multi-artist feast first began to germinate.
- Our Lady of Sorrows: known as "sorrowful" or "painful" Friday, the day is movable in that it occurs on the Friday before Palm Sunday.
- Since the feast is movable, the changes are often made to avoid Easter week conflicts.
Synonyms variable, changeable, alterable, unfixed, floating
2Law
(of property) of the nature of a chattel, as distinct from land or buildings. a man of sufficient movable property but with hardly any land Compare with heritable (sense 2) Example sentencesExamples - It governs, inter alia, capacity to marry, the legitimacy of children, and succession after death to moveable property and it is one of the tests of the validity of a Will.
- The inheritance of land is often separated from that of movable property.
- If the deceased is survived by a spouse, the descendants are entitled to claim legal rights over, and share between them, a third of the deceased's movable property.
- Private ownership of both land and moveable property is also subject to statutes governing financial solvency, such that bankrupts can have their land and other property sold to balance their debt.
- Resources can be external, material goods, such as land and moveable property.
- Three years after its inception, Namibia Wildlife Resorts is still in the process of having the resorts and other movable assets transferred so that they can be under its ownership.
noun ˈmuːvəb(ə)lˈmuvəb(ə)l usually movables1Property or possessions not including land or buildings. in many cases the movables are the facilities and stock-in-trade of a business a tax of one shilling in the pound on movables Example sentencesExamples - It was a wealth tax levied entirely on movables, and not on land.
- Country dwellers often had precise knowledge of the quality and value of their neighbours' properties and estates, in relation to both moveables and immoveables.
- … The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde.
- Residents were understandably concerned with the orderly transmission of property, particularly movables, upon the demise of the holder.
- He ordered that his executors should sell all of his moveables after his death, and spend the proceeds on various embellishments for S Ruffillo.
- In place of the old system the Assembly established three direct taxes: a land tax (contribution foncière), a tax on movables (contribution mobilière), and a commercial profits tax (patente).
- After this date the company faces debt execution actions with regard to its products, assets, accounts, bank guarantees, movables and immovables.
- Enterprises in Bulgaria can receive loans under effective credit lines or by pledging movables or mortgaging immovable property as security.
- The law allows compensation only for buildings and land, not for movables like the greenhouses' computerized irrigation systems.
- For the first three years of Cosine's existence the valuations used for determining the withdrawal-share were based upon the replacement cost of movables and improvements, which included buildings.
Synonyms possessions, belongings, effects, property, goods, chattels, things, stuff, paraphernalia, impedimenta informal gear rare plenishings - 1.1 An article of furniture that may be removed from a house, as distinct from a fixture.
all the movables have been removed and the roof has fallen in Example sentencesExamples - In contrast, Article 53 enables an occupying force to appropriate state movables to the extent that those materials may be used for military operations.
- There is little doubt that it is the lex situs which as a general rule governs the transfer of movables when effected contractually.
- It is important to note that if the house is fully furnished, Vat at 21 per cent applies to the moveables (ie, tables, chairs and so on).
- An estate mainly consisting of fixed assets and movables will have a problem.
- He had stripped the flat of movables and loaded the car well below its Plimsole line.
- During the long years of freedom from foreign war after 1214 the tax on movables remained an occasional resource of the Crown.
- Apart from movables, they got at most a parental dowry.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from moveir 'to move'. Definition of movable in US English: movable(also moveable) adjectiveˈmo͞ovəb(ə)lˈmuvəb(ə)l 1Capable of being moved. they stripped the town of all movable objects and fled Example sentencesExamples - The search for solutions to this problem led to the development of mobile computers mounted on mobile or movable facilities.
- The cost of a move in a building with a raised floor and movable partitions would be closer to $166 than to $3,640.
- The council wants the agency to re-consider the installation of moveable flood walls around the Shallows in the centre of the village, because of concerns about the visual impact of permanent flood banks.
- Wind instruments are tuned by adjustment to the length of tubing, using the tuning-slide on a brass instrument, the staple of the reed on an oboe, or the movable top joint of a flute, etc.
- Lightweight is the basic reason for using aluminum in all types of transportation equipment, as well as in moving and movable parts in general.
- You want furniture that is of course kid-size, but you also want it to be easily moveable and light-weight enough so that the children themselves can move it around as necessary.
- Over the past dozen years this Steinbach lawyer has dedicated his efforts to research the lineage of Mennonites throughout their moveable history from country to country.
- In trying to recover from the turbulence, the first officer moved the rudder, the big fin on the back of the tail fin, the moveable piece, back and forth, back and forth.
- One of the unique features about this museum is that the exhibits are in moveable cases so we can take them out and transform the function area.
- The pool was closed for two weeks in February, including half-term week, for a complete overhaul of the electrics, pool filters and the mechanics of the moveable floor.
- Storm windows should have weatherstripping at all moveable joints; be made of strong, durable materials; and have interlocking or overlapping joints.
- The first mechanical element is movable relative to the casing, between an engaged position and a disengaged position.
- Once orbiting the Earth the crew delicately manoeuvred a 100 ft movable crane tipped with lasers and a camera to inspect the wings and nose for damage.
- In England, France and Germany magic lanterns, moveable gauze screens and transparencies had been used to experiment with light on stage since the seventeenth century.
- Padlocks provide portable security for movable items such as bikes and boats and in locations such as lockers and outdoor sheds.
- The synovial joints are the most freely movable joints.
- I imagined a future me, rolling down the aisles of the Target store in my moveable chair thing that I bought, my dutiful husband lugging my oxygen tank, trying to keep up with me.
- In the first, a movable die travels horizontally towards a similar stationary die.
- There are three kinds of freely movable joints that play a big part in voluntary movement.
- The school's performance center will have moveable seating so auditorium-type settings can be easily converted mechanically to settings suitable for small work groups.
Synonyms portable, transportable, transferable - 1.1 (of a feast or festival) variable in date from year to year.
See also movable feast Example sentencesExamples - Since the feast is movable, the changes are often made to avoid Easter week conflicts.
- It was here that the notion of Vote for Change as a moveable multi-artist feast first began to germinate.
- Our Lady of Sorrows: known as "sorrowful" or "painful" Friday, the day is movable in that it occurs on the Friday before Palm Sunday.
- Meskel, or the Festival of the True Cross, is celebrated on moveable days in late September.
Synonyms variable, changeable, alterable, unfixed, floating
2Law
(of property) of the nature of a chattel, as distinct from land or buildings. Compare with heritable Example sentencesExamples - Resources can be external, material goods, such as land and moveable property.
- Three years after its inception, Namibia Wildlife Resorts is still in the process of having the resorts and other movable assets transferred so that they can be under its ownership.
- If the deceased is survived by a spouse, the descendants are entitled to claim legal rights over, and share between them, a third of the deceased's movable property.
- It governs, inter alia, capacity to marry, the legitimacy of children, and succession after death to moveable property and it is one of the tests of the validity of a Will.
- The inheritance of land is often separated from that of movable property.
- Private ownership of both land and moveable property is also subject to statutes governing financial solvency, such that bankrupts can have their land and other property sold to balance their debt.
nounˈmo͞ovəb(ə)lˈmuvəb(ə)l usually movables1Property or possessions not including land or buildings. Example sentencesExamples - The law allows compensation only for buildings and land, not for movables like the greenhouses' computerized irrigation systems.
- He ordered that his executors should sell all of his moveables after his death, and spend the proceeds on various embellishments for S Ruffillo.
- Residents were understandably concerned with the orderly transmission of property, particularly movables, upon the demise of the holder.
- … The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde.
- Enterprises in Bulgaria can receive loans under effective credit lines or by pledging movables or mortgaging immovable property as security.
- In place of the old system the Assembly established three direct taxes: a land tax (contribution foncière), a tax on movables (contribution mobilière), and a commercial profits tax (patente).
- After this date the company faces debt execution actions with regard to its products, assets, accounts, bank guarantees, movables and immovables.
- Country dwellers often had precise knowledge of the quality and value of their neighbours' properties and estates, in relation to both moveables and immoveables.
- For the first three years of Cosine's existence the valuations used for determining the withdrawal-share were based upon the replacement cost of movables and improvements, which included buildings.
- It was a wealth tax levied entirely on movables, and not on land.
Synonyms possessions, belongings, effects, property, goods, chattels, things, stuff, paraphernalia, impedimenta - 1.1 An article of furniture that may be removed from a house, as distinct from a fixture.
Example sentencesExamples - In contrast, Article 53 enables an occupying force to appropriate state movables to the extent that those materials may be used for military operations.
- It is important to note that if the house is fully furnished, Vat at 21 per cent applies to the moveables (ie, tables, chairs and so on).
- An estate mainly consisting of fixed assets and movables will have a problem.
- During the long years of freedom from foreign war after 1214 the tax on movables remained an occasional resource of the Crown.
- He had stripped the flat of movables and loaded the car well below its Plimsole line.
- Apart from movables, they got at most a parental dowry.
- There is little doubt that it is the lex situs which as a general rule governs the transfer of movables when effected contractually.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from moveir ‘to move’. |