movable

/ˈmuvəbəl/

/ˈmuvəbəl/

Other forms: movables; movably

When you can change or shift the position of something, it's movable. With two flat tires and a bent wheel, your bike is no longer movable.

Movable comes from move and its Latin source, movere, "set in motion." If you can move something, it's movable. That can mean physically moving it, the way you relocate a movable screen to divide a room. When events are movable, their dates can change. This is the source of "a movable feast," a religious holiday that falls annually on the same day of the week but a varying date. Easter is one example of a movable holiday.

Definitions of movable

1. adjective

   capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
   synonyms: moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable

   mobile

   moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
2. adjective

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

   portable

   easily or conveniently transported
3. adjective

   occurring at different dates from year to year
4. noun

   personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
   synonyms: chattel, personal chattel

   type of:

   personal estate, personal property, personalty, private property

   movable property (as distinguished from real estate)