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# movable

«movable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Able to be moved from one place to another; not fixed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (movable; also moveable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Able to be moved from one place to another; not fixed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/#m1)

2) Of a holiday or festival: falling on a different date each year, like Easter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In design and technology: movable parts such as hinges, wheels and levers make models and toys work; «movable joints» in the body (like the elbow) let us bend. In history: Gutenberg's «movable type» let printers put letters in different orders and print books fast. In religious education: Easter is a «movable feast».

### examples

- The desks in our classroom are movable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/#x1)
- The puppet has movable arms and legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/#x2)
- Your elbow is a movable joint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/#x3)
- Gutenberg printed books with movable type. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/#x4)
- Easter is a movable holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/#x5)
- The bridge has a movable part that lifts for ships. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/#x6)
- Make a card with a movable picture using a split pin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/#x7)
- Then the young couple returned by means of the movable stone, and brought up all the glass vessels filled with smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/#x8)

### note

Both spellings are correct: «movable» (more common) and «moveable». «-able» means «can be»: move → movable, wash → washable. Opposite: «immovable» or «fixed».

### In the corpora

- [The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/15/)
- [Sea urchins are covered with movable spines that point towards a threat, and their mouth underneath has five teeth called Aristotle's lantern.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour/11/)
- [Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg in Germany built a printing press with movable metal letters that could be reused.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/5/)
- [Johannes Gutenberg began printing books with movable metal letters around 1450.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «movable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/movable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.