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Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.

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  1. a. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.
  2. a. Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. Property not attached to the soil.
  5. adj. (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
  6. adj. capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
  7. n. personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc.)
  8. 1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year. Movable letter (Heb. Gram.), a letter that is pronounced, as opposed to one that is quiescent. 1. 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. Furnished with the most rich and princely movables. Evelyn. 2. (Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil. Note: The word is not convertible with personal property, since rents and similar incidents of the soil which are personal property by our law are immovables by the Roman law. Wharton.
  9. j:100 s. (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand) s. capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another