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mobile

1

[ moh-buhl, -beelor, especially British, -bahyl ]

adjective

  1. capable of moving or being moved readily.
  2. 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
  3. utilizing motor vehicles for ready movement:

    a mobile library.

  4. Military. permanently equipped with vehicles for transport.
  5. flowing freely, as a liquid.
  6. changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc.:

    a mobile face.

  7. quickly responding to impulses, emotions, etc., as the mind.
  8. Sociology.
    1. characterized by or permitting the mixing of social groups.
    2. characterized by or permitting relatively free movement from one social class or level to another.
  9. of or relating to a mobile.


noun

  1. 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 ).
  2. Informal. a mobile home.
  3. Citizens Band Radio Slang. a vehicle.

Mobile

2

[ moh-beel, moh-beel ]

noun

  1. a seaport in SW Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River.
  2. a river in SW Alabama, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. 38 miles (61 km) long.

-mobile

3
  1. 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.

mobile

1

/ ˈ³¾É™ÊŠ²ú²¹Éª±ô /

adjective

  1. having freedom of movement; movable
  2. changing quickly in expression

    a mobile face

  3. sociol (of individuals or social groups) moving within and between classes, occupations, and localities

    upwardly mobile

  4. (of military forces) able to move freely and quickly to any given area
  5. informal.
    postpositive having transport available

    are you mobile tonight?

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

    1. a sculpture suspended in midair with delicately balanced parts that are set in motion by air currents
    2. ( as modifier ) Compare stabile

      mobile sculpture

  1. short for mobile phone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Mobile

2

/ ˈməʊbiËl; məʊˈbiËl /

noun

  1. 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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

-mobile

3

/ ³¾É™ÊŠËŒ²ú¾±Ë±ô /

suffix forming nouns

  1. indicating a vehicle designed for a particular person or purpose

    Popemobile

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mobile

  1. A sculpture made up of suspended shapes that move.
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Notes

Alexander Calder , a twentieth-century American sculptor, is known for his mobiles.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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  • ²õ±ð³¾î€…i·³¾´Çb¾±±ô±ð adjective
  • ³Ü²Ô·³¾´Çb¾±±ô±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mobile1

First recorded in 1450–1500; late Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin, neuter of ³¾Å²ú¾±±ô¾±²õ “movable,†contraction of assumed movibilis, equivalent to movi- (stem of ³¾´Ç±¹Å§°ù±ð “to set in motion, impel, moveâ€) + -bilis adjective suffix; move, -ble
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mobile1

C15: via Old French from Latin ³¾Å²ú¾±±ô¾±²õ, from ³¾´Ç±¹Å§°ù±ð to move
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Dimming stars are just one of many problems posed by satellites and especially megaconstellations, groups of hundreds or thousands of small satellites that work together to give us broadband internet and mobile connectivity.

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The city council has not commented on the claim, but said residents "should not be dumping waste on the street", and should be taking their bin bags to mobile waste centres or recycling depots.

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“If he does choose to come back to Hermosa Beach, our officers know who he is,†and can contact the mobile mental health and crisis response team, HB Cares, LeBaron said.

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One method advocated by some schools included magnetically locked mobile phone pouches which cannot be accessed until the end of the school day.

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Others gather around a rescuer who shows them a photo of the body on his mobile phone.

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