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Movable   /mˈuvəbəl/   Listen
Movable

adjective
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.  Synonyms: moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable.
noun
(pl. movables)
1.
Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc).  Synonyms: chattel, personal chattel.



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"Movable" Quotes from Famous Books



... regulations. He enjoins on the afore-mentioned inhabitants of the hereinafter-mentioned parishes to repair instantly to the places hereinafter appointed, with their furniture, cattle, and in general all their movable effects, declaring that in case of disobedience their effects will be confiscated and taken away by the troops employed to demolish their houses. And it is hereby forbidden to any other commune to receive such rebels, ...
— Massacres Of The South (1551-1815) - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... Indians walked at the head of the troop, while several other men came at intervals among them. Each animal carried a small pack on its back; and we soon knew them to be llamas, as they advanced carrying their long necks upright, with their large and brilliant eyes, their thick lips, and long and movable ears. They were of a brown colour, with the ...
— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston
... with its small spots of tube-light mounted upon movable tripods, was eery with grotesque swaying shadows. The bandit camp. Hidden down here in the depths of the Mid-Atlantic Lowlands. An inaccessible retreat, this cave in what once was the ocean floor. Only a few years ago water ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... the conspirator had guessed. The horrible fascination of the death- stories, however, made him seek the men's society. He learned much more than he had bargained for; and in this manner. It was on the last night before the regiment entrained to the front. The barracks were stripped of everything movable, and the men were too excited to sleep. The bare walls gave out a heavy hospital smell of chloride ...
— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling
... case of entrenched positions. The Turkish Mountain Gun, firing Austrian Mtn. Gun Shell is to be used against moving (or movable) targets in the enemy's lines, while the German Heavy Guns are to be employed against the ...
— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison


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