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Mobile Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Mobile? [n] sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents [n] a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay [n] a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay [adj] affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile" [adj] capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face" [adj] moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator" [adj] having transportation available [adj] (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Mobile: airborne \| ambulant \| ambulatory \| changeable \| changeful \| floating \| fluid \| flying \| maneuverable \| manoeuvrable \| mechanised \| mechanized \| Mobile River \| motile \| motorized \| movable \| moveable \| nomadic \| perambulating \| peregrine \| raisable \| raiseable \| rangy \| rotatable \| roving \| seaborne \| transferable \| transferrable \| transplantable \| transportable \| unsettled \| versatile \| wandering \| waterborne Related Terms \| Find terms related to Mobile: able to adapt \| active \| adaptable \| adjustable \| agile \| alert \| all-around \| alterable \| alterative \| ambidextrous \| ambulant \| ambulatory \| animated \| art object \| brainchild \| bric-a-brac \| bronze \| capricious \| cast \| changeable \| changeful \| checkered \| classic \| composition \| creation \| design \| driving \| ever-changing \| expressive \| facile \| fickle \| flexible \| fluid \| grotesque \| impelling \| impermanent \| in motion \| inconstant \| kaleidoscopic \| kitsch \| liquid \| malleable \| many-sided \| marble \| master \| masterpiece \| masterwork \| mechanical \| mercurial \| metamorphic \| migrant \| modifiable \| motile \| motivational \| motive \| motor \| motorized \| movable \| moving \| museum piece \| mutable \| nimble \| nonuniform \| nude \| old master \| pasticcio \| pastiche \| permutable \| piece \| piece of virtu \| plastic \| portable \| propellant \| propelling \| protean \| proteiform \| quick \| resilient \| responsive \| rubbery \| sculpture \| sensitive \| stabile \| statue \| still life \| stirring \| study \| supple \| terra cotta \| transient \| transitional \| transitory \| transmigratory \| transportable \| traveling \| unfixed \| unsettled \| unstable \| unsteadfast \| unsteady \| variable \| versatile \| virtu \| work \| work of art See Also \| AL \| AL \| Alabama \| Alabama \| Camellia State \| Camellia State \| city \| Heart of Dixie \| Heart of Dixie \| metropolis \| moving \| port \| river \| sculpture \| urban center Mobile In Webster's Dictionary \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. \Mo"bile\, n. [L. mobile vulgus. See {Mobile}, a., and cf. 3d {Mob}.] The mob; the populace. [Obs.] ``The unthinking mobile.'' --South.

Mobile Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mobile?

[n] sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
[n] a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
[n] a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
[adj] affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile"
[adj] capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face"
[adj] moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"
[adj] having transportation available
[adj] (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"

Mobile In Webster's Dictionary

\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.


\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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