mobile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”). The video-gaming sense was coined by Richard Bartle to describe NPCs or creatures capable of moving "under their own power" in the 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon. Bartle retracted an earlier claim of his that it was from the kinetic sculpture sense of mobile (for the "unpredictable but limited" motion of the hanging ornaments).
Inflected forms:
form: more mobile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mobile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
pos: adj
examples: a mobile home
gloss: Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
pos: adj
examples: mobile number
mobile internet
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.
gloss: Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
pos: adj
examples: Mercury is a mobile liquid.
gloss: Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
pos: adj
examples: the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
gloss: Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
pos: adj
examples: mobile features
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.
gloss: Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
pos: adj
Derived words: airmobile
cellular mobile
dorsomobile
ground mobile force
hypermobile
hypomobile
madware
MASH
mob
mobile billboard
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
mobile entity
mobile object
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُنْتَقِل
roman: muntaqil
lang: Arabic
word: مُتَنَقِّل
roman: mutanaqqil
lang: Armenian
word: շարժական
roman: šaržakan
lang: Armenian
word: շարժուն
roman: šaržun
lang: Azerbaijani
word: səyyar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mobil
lang: Bashkir
word: мобиль
roman: mobilʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: подвижен
roman: podvižen
lang: Bulgarian
word: мобилен
roman: mobilen
lang: Catalan
word: mòbil
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 可动的
lang: Czech
word: mobilní
lang: Czech
word: pohyblivý
lang: Dutch
word: beweeglijk
lang: Dutch
word: mobiel
lang: Esperanto
word: movebla
lang: Finnish
word: liikkuva
lang: French
word: mobile
lang: Galician
word: móbil
lang: Georgian
word: მოძრავი
roman: moʒravi
lang: Georgian
word: გადატანადი
roman: gadaṭanadi
lang: Georgian
word: მობილური
roman: mobiluri
lang: German
word: beweglich
lang: German
word: mobil
lang: Greek
word: κινητός
roman: kinitós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κινητικός
roman: kinētikós
lang: Hebrew
word: נַיָּד
lang: Hindi
word: गतिमान
roman: gatimān
lang: Hindi
word: गतिशील
roman: gatiśīl
lang: Hungarian
word: mozgatható
lang: Hungarian
word: mozgó
lang: Hungarian
word: mobil
lang: Hungarian
word: mobilis
lang: Hungarian
word: hordozható
lang: Hungarian
word: szállítható
lang: Hungarian
word: kiemelhető
lang: Interlingua
word: mobile
lang: Italian
word: mobile
lang: Jamaican Creole
word: muobail
lang: Japanese
word: 可動
roman: kadou
lang: Kazakh
word: қозғалғыш
roman: qozğalğyş
lang: Latin
word: mōbilis
lang: Latvian
word: mobils
lang: Lithuanian
word: mobilus
lang: Malay
word: mudah alih
lang: Malay
word: mudalih
lang: Norwegian
word: bevegelig
lang: Norwegian
word: mobil
lang: Persian
word: سیار
lang: Polish
word: przenośny
lang: Polish
word: mobilny
lang: Polish
word: ruchomy
lang: Portuguese
word: móvel
lang: Portuguese
word: movediço
lang: Romanian
word: mobil
lang: Russian
word: моби́льный
roman: mobílʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: подвижной
roman: podvižnoj
lang: Russian
word: передвижно́й
roman: peredvižnój
lang: Sanskrit
word: जङ्गम
roman: jaṅgama
lang: Slovak
word: mobilný
lang: Spanish
word: móvil
lang: Spanish
word: movible
lang: Swedish
word: flyttbar
lang: Swedish
word: mobil
lang: Swedish
word: rörlig
lang: Tagalog
word: gala
lang: Turkish
word: taşınabilir
lang: Volapük
word: golovik
lang: Volapük
word: vabovik
lang: Yiddish
word: מאָביל
roman: mobil