mobile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊbaɪl/
ipa: /ˈmoʊbəl/
ipa: /ˈmoʊbil/
ipa: /ˈmoʊbaɪl/
note: sculpture always
ipa: /ˈmoʊbil/
homophone: Mobile
note: Indic
ipa: /mɵˈbajl/
Forms: form: more mobile
form: most mobile
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).
Senses: examples: text: a mobile home
synonyms: word: movable
word: afoot
word: animate
word: astir
word: cursory
word: dynamic
word: in motion
word: mobile
word: moving
word: on the move
word: on the wing
word: under sail
word: unstill
word: ambulatory
word: animate
word: kinetic
word: mobile
word: motile
word: motive
word: movable
word: vagile
antonyms: fixed
immobile
immovable
sessile
stationary
glosses: Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
examples: text: mobile number
text: mobile internet
text: 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.
ref: 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
examples: text: Mercury is a mobile liquid.
synonyms: word: fluxive
word: flowy
word: fluent
word: fluid
word: fluxive
word: free-flowing
word: liquid
word: mobile
word: runny
word: thin
word: watery
glosses: Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
examples: text: the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: excitable
word: fickle
word: changeable
word: changeful
word: changeling
word: dynamic
word: everchanging
word: fickle
word: fluid
word: inconstant
word: labile
word: mobile
word: unstable
word: variable
word: wavering
glosses: Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
examples: text: mobile features
text: His finely cut features were capable of every variety of expression; they were, to use a French epithet, expressive as their epithets for all social qualities usually are, mobile in the extreme.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 176:
glosses: Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: motile
antonyms: sessile
glosses: Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
Derived terms: airmobile
cellular mobile
dorsomobile
ground mobile force
hypermobile
hypomobile
madware
MASH
mobilecasting
mobile chicane
mobile crane
mobile data
mobile elevated work platform
mobile elevating work platform
mobile game
Mobilegeddon
mobile genetic element
mobile home
mobile home park
mobile library
mobilelike
mobileness
mobile number
mobile phase
mobile phone
mobile reporting
mobile scanner picking
mobile service
mobile speed bump
mobile station
mobile telephone
mobilette
mobile virtual network operator
mobile wad
mobilism
mobilist
mobilome
mobilopathy
mobisode
moblog
mobot
Muskmobile
nonmobile
retromobile
semimobile
s-mobile
socially mobile
ultramobile
upwardly mobile