mobile, able to be moved, portable; not fixed in place; subject to propulsion; placed temporarily (also moveable)
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Movable Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
Property not attached to the soil.
Property not attached to the soil.
(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.
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.
(a.)
Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutCapable 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.
movable
\mov"a*ble\, n.; pl. movables (&?;).
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.
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.
movable
\mov"a*ble\ (?), a. [cf. of. movable. see move.] 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.
movable
adj
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 [syn: moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable]
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movable kidney
Adjective
1. (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
(similar) portable
2. capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
(synonym) moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable
(similar) mobile
Movable Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Personal property, roughly speaking, is private property that is moveable, as opposed to real property or real estate. In the common law systems personal property may also be called chattels or personalty. In the civil law systems personal property is often called movable property or movables - any property that can be moved from one location to another. This term is in distinction with immovable property (or immoveable property) or immovables (or immoveables), such as land and buildings. Movable property on land, that which was not automatically sold with the land, included for example larger livestock (wildlife and smaller livestock like chickens, by contrast, was often sold as part of the land). In fact the word cattle is the Old Norman variant of Old French chatel (derived from Latin capitalis, “of the head”), which was once synonymous with general movable personal property.
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