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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


ADJECTIVE (2)

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]


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.] [1913 Webster] Furnished with the most rich and princely movables. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster] 2. (Rom. Law) Property not attached to the soil. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster] 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "movable": 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