mobile

UK /ˈməʊ.baɪl/ US /ˈmoʊ.bəl/
adj 5noun 5name 1

Definitions

adj

1

Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

a mobile home

2

Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

mobile number

mobile internet

3

Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.

Mercury is a mobile liquid.

4

Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition

5

Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.

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.

noun

1

A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.

2

Ellipsis of mobile phone.

Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run

Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet.

3

The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices.

There are many business opportunities in mobile.

The bug affects mobile, but not desktop.

4

One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).

[…] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles". […] We concentrated on a mobile teenager population that had good public transportation or automobile access and a[…]

Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.

5

An object capable of moving under its own power.

name

1

A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.

Oh, Mama / Is this really the end? / To be stuck here inside of Mobile / With the Memphis blues again

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