Meaning of mobile in English
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Classifying Adjective
mobileDefinitions
1. (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequentlyExamples
- « 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
- 2. having transportation available
Synonyms
- 3. capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
Examples
- « a highly mobile face »
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- 4. affording change (especially in social status)
Examples
- « Britain is not a truly fluid society »
- « upwardly mobile »
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Noun
MobileDefinitions
1. a river in southwestern AlabamaExamples
- « 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
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Qualitative Adjective
mobileEtymology
late 15th century: via French from Latin mobilis, from movere‘to move’. The noun dates from the 1940sDefinitions
1. moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)Examples
- « a mobile missile system »
- « the tongue is...the most mobile articulator »
Synonyms
- airborne
- ambulant
- ambulatory
- floating
- flying
- maneuverable
- manoeuvrable
- mechanized
- mechanised
- motorized
- motile
- movable
- moveable
- transferable
- transferrable
- transportable
- rangy
- rotatable
- transplantable
- waterborne
- perambulating
- raisable
- raiseable
- seaborne
- versatile
Antonyms
Famous quotes
- « The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class. » David Miliband
- « Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups. » Paul Ryan
- « Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home. » Michael Chertoff
- « Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. » Susan Sontag
- « My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute. » Rachel Weisz