1. movable - Noun
2. movable - Adjective
3. movable - Adjective Satellite
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.
Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
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.
Property not attached to the soil.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEveryone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind. Gene Fowler
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. Dean Kamen
He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing. Thomas Carlyle
But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property. Edward Jenks
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. H. L. Mencken
Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover. Leonardo da Vinci