Definition of movable

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Movable (a.) 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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Runner :: Runner (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
Follower :: Follower (n.) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston..
Switch :: Switch (n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another..
Crab :: Crab (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc..
Fixed :: Fixed (a.) Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.
-able :: -able () An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable..
Scissors :: Scissors (n. pl.) A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors..
Inamovable :: Inamovable (a.) Not amovable or removable.
Damper :: Damper (n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time..
Remuable :: Remuable (a.) That may be removed; removable.
Immovability :: Immovability (n.) The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose..
Antenna :: Antenna (n.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids..
Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole..
Sham :: Sham (n.) A false front, or removable ornamental covering..
Rhynchocephala :: Rhynchocephala (n. pl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia..
Barrack :: Barrack (n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc..
Immovable :: Immovable (a.) Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.
Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable..
Lock :: Lock (n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
Tenth :: Tenth (n.) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject..
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