mobile
capable of moving or being moved readily.
Digital Technology. pertaining to or noting a cell phone, usually one with computing ability, or a portable, wireless computing device used while held in the hand, as in mobile tablet; mobile PDA; mobile app.
utilizing motor vehicles for ready movement: a mobile library.
Military. permanently equipped with vehicles for transport.
flowing freely, as a liquid.
changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc.: a mobile face.
quickly responding to impulses, emotions, etc., as the mind.
Sociology.
characterized by or permitting the mixing of social groups.
characterized by or permitting relatively free movement from one social class or level to another.
of or relating to a mobile.
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).
Informal. a mobile home.
Citizens Band Radio Slang. a vehicle.
Origin of mobile
1Other words from mobile
- non·mo·bile, adjective
- sem·i·mo·bile, adjective
- un·mo·bile, adjective
Other definitions for Mobile (2 of 3)
a seaport in SW Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River.
a river in SW Alabama, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. 38 miles (61 km) long.
Other definitions for -mobile (3 of 3)
a combining form extracted from automobile, occurring as the final element in compounds denoting specialized types of motorized conveyances: snowmobile; especially 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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How to use mobile in a sentence
“I sense that mobile games are starting to shed their skin, getting rid of all the dead things they carry around,” he says.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art | Alec Kubas-Meyer | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAccording to court testimony by the lead NCIS investigator, it contained various mobile phones and even valuable letters.
The system is truck-mounted and road-mobile, as are the big and conspicuous radars that stood next to it on display.
How China Will Track—and Kill—America’s Newest Stealth Jets | Bill Sweetman | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe caller mentioned my work, which focused primarily on consumer products, mobile apps, emerging start-ups, and web trends.
A Female Writer’s New Milestone: Her First Death Threat | Annie Gaus | December 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPrison guards in Lima found a contraband mobile phone in his prison cell that he claimed was given to him by the warden.
Did Joran Van Der Sloot Fake His Prison Shanking? | Andrea Zarate, Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Industrial society is therefore mobile, elastic, standing at any moment in a temporary and unstable equilibrium.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockShe did not answer, but her mobile, painted lips quivered, as if she were trying to repress a smile and were not quite succeeding.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensJohn N. Maffit, the well known and eccentric methodist preacher, died at mobile.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellWith him prayer was a thing of absolute necessity, and resignation to the eternal decrees the primum mobile of all.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)It may be said that among uncivilized and barefoot people the great toe is usually very mobile.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles Morris
British Dictionary definitions for mobile (1 of 3)
/ (ˈməʊbaɪl) /
having freedom of movement; movable
changing quickly in expression: a mobile face
sociol (of individuals or social groups) moving within and between classes, occupations, and localities: upwardly mobile
(of military forces) able to move freely and quickly to any given area
(postpositive) informal having transport available: are you mobile tonight?
a sculpture suspended in midair with delicately balanced parts that are set in motion by air currents
(as modifier): mobile sculpture Compare stabile
short for mobile phone
Origin of mobile
1British Dictionary definitions for Mobile (2 of 3)
/ (ˈməʊbiːl, məʊˈbiːl) /
a port in SW Alabama, on Mobile Bay (an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico): the state's only port and its first permanent settlement, made by French colonists in 1711. Pop: 193 464 (2003 est)
British Dictionary definitions for -mobile (3 of 3)
/ (məʊˌbiːl) /
indicating a vehicle designed for a particular person or purpose: Popemobile
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Cultural definitions for mobile
A sculpture made up of suspended shapes that move.
Notes for mobile
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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