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Dictionary: mov·a·ble  move·a·ble ('və-bəl) pronunciation
also adj.
  1. Possible to move: a movable stove; a movable rock.
  2. Varying in date from year to year: a movable holiday.
  3. Law. Of or relating to personal property that can be moved.
n.
  1. Something, especially a piece of furniture, that can be moved.
  2. Law. Personal property. Often used in the plural.
movability mov'a·bil'i·ty or mov'a·ble·ness n.
movably mov'a·bly adv.

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also moveable

adjective

    Capable of moving or being moved from place to place: mobile, moving, transportable, traveling. See move/halt.

noun

  1. A piece of equipment for comfort or convenience: appointment (used in plural), furnishing. Chiefly British fitting (used in plural). See machine.
  2. One's portable property. belonging (often used in plural), effect (used in plural), good (used in plural), lares and penates, personal effects, personal property, possession (used in plural), property, thing (often used in plural). Informal stuff. Law chattel. See owned/unowned.

Antonyms: movable
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adj

Definition: transportable
Antonyms: fixed, immovable, immoveable, permanent, unmovable, untransportable


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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)

Meaning #2: capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
  Synonyms: moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable


Translations: Movable
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - bevægelig, transportabel, som kan flyttes
n. - flytbart møbel, [jur.]løsøre, indbo

Nederlands (Dutch)
beweegbaar, beweeglijk, mobiel, veranderlijk (m.n. datum van feest), verplaatsbaar, roerend (goed)

Français (French)
adj. - (gén) mobile, (Jur) mobilier (une propriété, des biens)
n. - biens mobiliers (npl), biens meubles (npl)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - bewegbar
n. - Möbelstück

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - κινητός
n. - (πληθ.) κινητή περιουσία, οικοσκευή

Italiano (Italian)
mobile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - móvel
n. - móvel (m), bens móveis (m pl) (Jur.)

Русский (Russian)
подвижной, съемный, движущийся, движимый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - movible
n. - muebles, mobiliario, enseres, objetos

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - rörlig, lös, personlig
n. - lösöre

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
可动的, 不定的, 动产的, 家具, 动产

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 可動的, 不定的, 動產的
n. - 家具, 動產

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 움직일 수 있는, 동산의, 해마다 날짜가 바뀌는
n. - 움직일 수 있는 물건, 동산

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 動かせる, 可動の, 移動する, 不定の
n. - 動かせるもの, 動産, 家具

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) حركي (الاسم) قابل للحركه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נייד, בר-תנועה, מתנייע, מיטלטל, שתאריכו משתנה‬
n. - ‮נכסי דניידי (ברבים), מיטלטלין, רהיט, ברבים: רכוש אישי, תכולת בית‬


 
 
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