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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] Pronunciation Key
[moh-buhl, -beel or, especially Brit., -bahyl for 1-8, 10, 11; moh-beel or, Brit., -bahyl for 9] Pronunciation Key –adjective
–noun
| 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.
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| 8. | of or pertaining to a mobile. |
| 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. |
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Mo·bile
[moh-beel, moh-beel] Pronunciation Key
[moh-beel, moh-beel] Pronunciation Key –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. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| mo·bile
(mō'bəl, -bēl', -bīl') Pronunciation Key
adj.
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.] |
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| Mo·bile
(mō-bēl', mō'bēl') Pronunciation Key
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: 192,000. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
mobile (adj.)
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
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| mobile | |
adjective | |
| 1. | migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes" |
| 2. | moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator" [ant: immobile] |
| 3. | having transportation available |
| 4. | capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face" |
| 5. | affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: fluid] |
noun | |
| 1. | a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay |
| 2. | a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay |
| 3. | sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents [ant: stabile] |
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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
mobile
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 County, AL (county, FIPS 97) Location: 30.68435 N, 88.19853 W
Population (1990): 378643 (151220 housing units)
Area: 3194.4 sq km (land), 1063.9 sq km (water)
Mobile, AL (city, FIPS 50000) Location: 30.67745 N, 88.08896 W
Population (1990): 196278 (82817 housing units)
Area: 305.7 sq km (land), 100.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 36602, 36603, 36604, 36605, 36606, 36607, 36608, 36609, 3
Hove Mobile Park, ND (city, FIPS 38980) Location: 48.58249 N, 98.22909 W
Population (1990): 0 (0 housing units)
Area: 0.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Mobile, AZ Zip code(s): 85239
U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.
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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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