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 →

2) Of a holiday or festival: falling on a different date each year, like Easter. tree →

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 →
• The puppet has movable arms and legs. tree →
• Your elbow is a movable joint. tree →
• Gutenberg printed books with movable type. tree →
• Easter is a movable holiday. tree →
• The bridge has a movable part that lifts for ships. tree →
• Make a card with a movable picture using a split pin. tree →
• Then the young couple returned by means of the movable stone, and brought up all the glass vessels filled with smoke. tree →

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.
• Sea urchins are covered with movable spines that point towards a threat, and their mouth underneath has five teeth called Aristotle's lantern.
• Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg in Germany built a printing press with movable metal letters that could be reused.
• Johannes Gutenberg began printing books with movable metal letters around 1450.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «movable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.