Meaning of MOBILE
Pronunciation: | | mow'beel, 'mowbul
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- [n] sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
- [n] a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
- [n] a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
- [adj] affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile"
- [adj] capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face"
- [adj] moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"
- [adj] having transportation available
- [adj] (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
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| Synonyms: | | airborne, ambulant, ambulatory, changeable, changeful, floating, fluid, flying, maneuverable, manoeuvrable, mechanised, mechanized, Mobile River, motile, motorized, movable, moveable, nomadic, perambulating, peregrine, raisable, raiseable, rangy, rotatable, roving, seaborne, transferable, transferrable, transplantable, transportable, unsettled, versatile, wandering, waterborne |
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| Antonyms: | | immobile, stabile | |
| See Also: | | AL, AL, Alabama, Alabama, Camellia State, Camellia State, city, Heart of Dixie, Heart of Dixie, metropolis, moving, port, river, sculpture, urban center | |
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| Definition: | | Mobile Description not available. more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Mo"bile\, a. [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to
move: cf. F. mobile. See {Move}.]
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 features.
5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited;
capable of spontaneous movement.
\Mo"bile\, n. [L. mobile vulgus. See {Mobile}, a., and
cf. 3d {Mob}.]
The mob; the populace. [Obs.] ``The unthinking mobile.''
--South.
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