movable

Word family

mov·a·ble1, moveable /ˈmuːvəbəl/ adjectiveadj

MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONable to be moved and not fixed in one place or position 活动的；可移动的 OPP immovable

a teddy bear with movable arms and legs

四肢能活动的玩具熊

Examples from the Corpus

movable• What is even more important, the dislocation turns out to be movable.• As we saw earlier, the furniture is movable and group-oriented, and materials are meant to be shared.• a teddy bear with movable arms and legs• Well, at the morning room end, there would be a small orchestra, on a specially built, movable dais.• The manufacture of the books that fill the movable shelves was often fraught with technical problems.• Oil this one the four people were deployed around the movable stairs of a just-arrived plane.• What was being built was the largest movable structure that had ever been created.• The plains are movable, subject to wind, water and grazing.• They suggested movable walls and cubicles.

Related topics: Law

movable2, moveable noun [countableC usually plural] law

SCLOWNa personal possession such as a piece of furniture 动产

From Longman Business Dictionary

movablemov·a·ble /ˈmʊːvəbəl/ (also moveable) adjectiveadj

if something is movable, it is not fixed and can move, be moved, or change

Governments may use movable exchange-rates to keep their economies competitive.

movable property

mov·a·ble1 adjectiveadjmovable2 noun

Chinese

Syllable

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