immovable
IPA: ɪmˈuvʌbʌɫ
noun
- that which can not be moved; something which is immovable
adjective
- incapable of being physically moved; fixed
- steadfast in purpose or intention; unalterable, unyielding
- not capable of being affected or moved in feeling; impassive
- (law) not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed
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Examples of "immovable" in Sentences
- The machine is an immovable object.
- Fixed train stops are a type of stop that is immovable.
- Immovable if we choose to make them immovable, that is.
- The parties are each immovable in each's own conviction.
- The immovable properties are useless as they fetch nothing.
- How can you move the immovable and extract the unextractable
- The rollers are pivotably mounted on an axially immovable support.
- The property dedicated to waqf is generally immovable, such as estate.
- Fire extinguishers mounted on the walls of the modules were immovable.
- Movable and immovable properties are to be included in the first category.
- Let their hearts be pure, their faith unshaken, their principles immovable.
- Strictly speaking, however, a fief was usually defined as immovable property whose usufruct perpetually conceded to another under the obligation of fealty and personal homage.
- But for those with the FOX News logo permanently burned into the lower right hand side of their TV screen -- aka the immovable 35 percent -- none of this information meant a thing.
- I must have sat in immovable traffic for an hour thinking to myself that there is no way this city is going to successfully pull off an Olympic Games, until I finally gave up and headed home.
- And it turneth no more to this or to that, but it willeth always One, and that is God; to Him it cleaveth alway, without any going back; and therefore is it called immovable, for it suffereth not itself to be moved from God.
- He speaks of a “nondiscriminatory knowledge” realized in action as “immovable wisdom”: “It [immovable wisdom] moves as the mind is wont to move: forward or back, to the left, to the right, in the ten directions and to the eight points; and the mind that does not stop at all is called immovable wisdom.”
- And we must acknowledge that as there are two kinds of knowledge, so there are two kinds of being corresponding to them; the one uncreated, indestructible, immovable, which is seen by intelligence only; the other created, which is always becoming in place and vanishing out of place, and is apprehended by opinion and sense.
- But if the earth also moves, the true and absolute motion of the body will arise, partly from the true motion of the earth, in immovable space; partly from the relative motion of the ship on the earth; and if the body moves also relatively in the ship; its true motion will arise, partly from the true motion of the earth, in immovable space, and partly from the relative motions as well of the ship on the earth, as of the body in the ship; and from these relative motions will arise the relative motion of the body on the earth.