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mobile

1

[moh-buhl, -beel, -bahyl]

adjective

  1. capable of moving or being moved readily.

  2. Digital Technology.pertaining to or noting a cell phone, usually one with computing ability, or a portable, wireless computing device used while held in the hand, as in

  3. utilizing motor vehicles for ready movement.

    a mobile library.

  4. Military.permanently equipped with vehicles for transport.

  5. flowing freely, as a liquid.

  6. changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc..

    a mobile face.

  7. quickly responding to impulses, emotions, etc., as the mind.

  8. Sociology.

    1. characterized by or permitting the mixing of social groups.

    2. characterized by or permitting relatively free movement from one social class or level to another.

  9. of or relating to a mobile.



noun

  1. a piece of sculpture having delicately balanced units constructed of rods and sheets of metal or other material suspended in midair by wire or twine so that the individual parts can move independently, as when stirred by a breeze.

  2. mobile phone.

  3. Informal.a mobile home.

  4. Citizens Band Radio Slang.a vehicle.

Mobile

2

[moh-beel, moh-beel]

noun

  1. a seaport in SW Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River.

  2. a river in SW Alabama, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. 38 miles (61 km) long.

-mobile

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  1. a combining form extracted from automobile, occurring as the final element in compounds denoting specialized types of motorized conveyances: snowmobile; especially productive in coinages naming vehicles equipped to procure or deliver objects, provide services, etc., to people without regular access to these: bloodmobile; bookmobile; clubmobile; jazzmobile.

mobile

1

/ ˈəʊɪ /

adjective

  1. having freedom of movement; movable

  2. changing quickly in expression

    a mobile face

  3. sociol (of individuals or social groups) moving within and between classes, occupations, and localities

    upwardly mobile

  4. (of military forces) able to move freely and quickly to any given area

  5. informal(postpositive) having transport available

    are you mobile tonight?

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noun

    1. a sculpture suspended in midair with delicately balanced parts that are set in motion by air currents

    2. ( as modifier ) Compare stabile

      mobile sculpture

  1. short for mobile phone

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Mobile

2

/ ˈməʊbiːl, məʊˈbiːl /

noun

  1. a port in SW Alabama, on Mobile Bay (an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico): the state's only port and its first permanent settlement, made by French colonists in 1711. Pop: 193464 (2003 est)

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-mobile

3

/ əʊˌː /

suffix

  1. indicating a vehicle designed for a particular person or purpose

    Popemobile

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mobile

  1. A sculpture made up of suspended shapes that move.

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Alexander Calder, a twentieth-century American sculptor, is known for his mobiles.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • nonmobile adjective
  • semimobile adjective
  • unmobile adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mobile1

First recorded in 1450–1500; late Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin, neuter of ō “movable,” contraction of assumed movibilis, equivalent to movi- (stem of DZŧ “to set in motion, impel, move”) + -bilis adjective suffix; move, -ble
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mobile1

C15: via Old French from Latin ō, from DZŧ to move
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"They were questioned as witnesses and later their identities were fully confirmed via social networks, mobile phones, and partial radio intercepts that preceded the event. The entire unit in that sector was tracked."

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A mobile alert went out to Minneapolis area residents warning them to "shelter in place."

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"You've just got to keep going. I've got a business to run," he said, referring to his mobile coffee van which was hit during the first flood along with neighbours' vehicles.

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The mobile home was not permitted for human occupancy, according to the report and Bonta’s lawsuit.

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Three teenage girls have pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to the manslaughter of a 75-year-old man who died after a street attack that was filmed on a mobile phone.

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