Definitions for movable

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movable mov·a·ble

Spelling: [moo-vuh-buh l]

IPA: /ˈmu və bəl/

Movable is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in movable (abelmov).

Definitions for movable

noun

1. an article of furniture that is not fixed in place.
2. Often, movables. Law. an article of personal property not attached to land.

adjective

1. capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture.
2. Law. not permanent in reference to place; capable of being moved without injury. personal, as distinguished from real.
3. changing from one date to another in different years:
4. (of type or matrices) able to be rearranged.

Origin of movable

1350-1400; Middle English mevable, movable Anglo-French movable. See move, -able

Examples for movable

This invention was the method of printing with movable types.

Somewhere in there is what activists call the “movable middle.”

Richard Abowitz is on the staff of Las Vegas Weekly and writes the movable Buffet blog and column for Los Angeles Times.

Abowitz is perhaps best known for writing the movable Buffet blog and continuing print column for Los Angeles Times.

Umbones: two movable spines on the sides of prothorax in some Coleoptera.

Yet, thanks to the Fire-God, the man had saved all his movable belongings.

For many years Abowitz wrote movable Buffet blog and print column for Los Angeles Times.

To such a gallery one or two movable screens will be of great use.

For many years he wrote the movable Buffet blog and print column for the Los Angeles Times.

The inner globe was movable within the outer globe, or rind.