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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

able to adapt, accessible, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, amenable, assignable, changeable, changeful, checkered, communicable, conductive, consignable, contagious, conveyable, ever-changing, expressable, flexible, floating, fluid, impartable, impermanent, impressionable, influenceable, interchangeable, kaleidoscopic, mailable, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic, metathetic, mobile, modifiable, motile, moveable, moving, mutable, nonuniform, open, open-minded, permutable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, portable, portative, protean, proteiform, receptive, removable, resilient, responsive, roving, rubbery, suasible, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, transferable, transfusable, transient, transitory, transmissible, transmissive, transmittable, transportable, transportative, transposable, unfixed, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, variable, weak

Dictionary Results for movable:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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: movable, moveable, transferable, transferrable,
       transportable]
    n 1: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable
         property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn:
         chattel, personal chattel, movable]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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. [Also
      spelled moveable.]
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            Furnished with the most rich and princely movables.
                                                  --Evelyn.
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   2. (Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil.
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   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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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. [Also spelled moveable.]

   Syn: transferable, transferrable, transportable.
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   2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i.
      e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year
      to year.
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   Movable letter (Heb. Gram.), a letter that is pronounced,
      as opposed to one that is quiescent.

   Movable feast (Ecclesiastical), a holy day that changes
      date, depending on the lunar cycle. An example of such a
      day is Easter.
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