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Webster 1913 Edition
Mobile
1.
Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
“Fixed or else mobile.” Skelton.
2.
Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom;
as, benzine and mercury are
mobile
liquids; – opposed to viscous
, viscoidal
, or oily
.3.
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
Testament of Love.
The quick and
mobile
curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne.
4.
Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind;
as,
. mobile
features5.
(Physiol.)
Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
Mo′bile
(mō′bēlˊ)
, Noun.
a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mobile
MO'BILE
,Adj.
MO'BILE
,Noun.
Primum mobile, in the ancient astronomy, a ninth heaven or sphere, supposed to be beyond the fixed stars, and to be the first mover of all the lower spheres.
Definition 2024
Mobile
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mobile
English
Adjective
mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)
- Capable of being moved.
- By agency of mobile phones.
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
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- Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
- Mercury is a mobile liquid.
- Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Testament of Love to this entry?)
- Hawthorne
- the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
- Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
- mobile features
- (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
capable of being moved
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Noun
mobile (plural mobiles)
- A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other (Wikipedia).
- A mobile phone (Wikipedia).
- Something that can move.
Translations
decoration
mobile phone — see mobile phone
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin mōbilis. Doublet of meuble.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mobile m, f (plural mobiles)
Derived terms
- fête mobile
- téléphone mobile
Noun
mobile m (plural mobiles)
- (physics) moving body
- mobile (decoration)
- motive (for an action, for a crime)
- mobile phone
Italian
Etymology
Adjective
mobile m, f (masculine and feminine plural mobili)
Antonyms
Noun
mobile m (plural mobili)
- (in the singular) item of furniture
- (in the plural) furniture
- (heraldry) charge
- mobile (cellular phone)
Synonyms
- (furniture): mobilia, mobilio, arredamento
- (cellular phone): cellulare, telefonino
Antonyms
- (cellular phone): fisso
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Latin
Adjective
mōbile
- nominative neuter singular of mōbilis
- accusative neuter singular of mōbilis
- vocative neuter singular of mōbilis
References
- MOBILE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)