MOVABLE


Meaning of MOVABLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

movable feast

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

feast

A birthday is a movable feast as the round of years is wholly unrelated to the seasons.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a teddy bear with movable arms and legs

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As we saw earlier, the furniture is movable and group-oriented, and materials are meant to be shared.

Oil this one the four people were deployed around the movable stairs of a just-arrived plane.

The manufacture of the books that fill the movable shelves was often fraught with technical problems.

The plains are movable , subject to wind, water and grazing.

They suggested movable walls and cubicles.

Well, at the morning room end, there would be a small orchestra, on a specially built, movable dais.

What is even more important, the dislocation turns out to be movable .

What was being built was the largest movable structure that had ever been created.

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