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mo⋅bile

  [moh-buhl, -beel or, especially Brit., -bahyl for 1-8, 10, 11; moh-beel or, Brit., -bahyl for 9]
Use mobile in a Sentence
–adjective
1. capable of moving or being moved readily.
2. utilizing motor vehicles for ready movement: a mobile library.
3. Military. permanently equipped with vehicles for transport.
4. flowing freely, as a liquid.
5. changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc.: a mobile face.
6. quickly responding to impulses, emotions, etc., as the mind.
7. Sociology.
a. characterized by or permitting the mixing of social groups.
b. characterized by or permitting relatively free movement from one social class or level to another.
8. of or pertaining to a mobile.
–noun
9. 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. Compare stabile (def. 3).
10. Informal. a mobile home.
11. Citizens Band Radio Slang. a vehicle.
Origin:
1480–90; < L, neut. of mōbilis movable, equiv. to mō- (var. s. of movēre to move ) + -bilis -ble
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Mo⋅bile

  [moh-beel, moh-beel]
–noun
1. a seaport in SW Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River. 200,452.
2. a river in SW Alabama, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. 38 mi. (61 km) long.

-mobile

 
a combining form extracted from automobile, occurring as the final element in compounds denoting specialized types of motorized conveyances: snowmobile; esp. 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.
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mo·bile   (mō'bəl, -bēl', -bīl')   
adj.  
  1. Capable of moving or of being moved readily from place to place: a mobile organism; a mobile missile system.
    1. Capable of moving or changing quickly from one state or condition to another: a mobile, expressive face.
    2. Fluid; unstable: a mobile situation following the coup.
    3. Marked by the easy intermixing of different social groups: a mobile community.
    4. Moving relatively easily from one social class or level to another: an upwardly mobile generation.
    5. Tending to travel and relocate frequently: a restless, mobile society.
    1. Marked by the easy intermixing of different social groups: a mobile community.
    2. Moving relatively easily from one social class or level to another: an upwardly mobile generation.
    3. Tending to travel and relocate frequently: a restless, mobile society.
  4. Flowing freely; fluid: a mobile liquid.
n.   (mō'bēl')
A type of sculpture consisting of carefully equilibrated parts that move, especially in response to air currents.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis, from *movibilis, from movēre, to move; see meuə- in Indo-European roots.]
Mo·bile   (mō-bēl', mō'bēl')   
A city of southwest Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River, about 61 km (38 mi) long, on the north shore of Mobile Bay, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. Founded c. 1710, the city was held by the French, British, and Spanish until it was seized by U.S. forces in 1813. In the Battle of Mobile Bay (August 1864) Adm. David Farragut defeated a major Confederate flotilla and secured Union control of the area. Population: 193,000.
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Mobile

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.

Mobile

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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Language Translation for : mobile
Spanish: móvil,
German: beweglich,
Japanese: 移動する
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mobile

A sculpture made up of suspended shapes that move.

Note: Alexander Calder, a twentieth-century American sculptor, is known for his mobiles.
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mobile  (adj.)
1490, from M.Fr. mobile, from L. mobilis "movable," from movere "to move" (see move). The noun is early 15c. in astronomy; the artistic sense is first recorded 1949 as a shortening of mobile sculpture (1936). Mobile home first recorded 1940.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: mo·bile
Pronunciation: 'mO-b&l, -"bIl
Function: adjective
: capable of moving or being moved about readily mobile and rod-shaped proteins that form solid structures> mobile articulator —G. A. Miller>; specifically : characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity mobile liquids> —mo·bil·i·ty /mO-'bil-&t-E/ noun plural -ties
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