Meaning of mobile in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions
  3. Noun
    1. Definitions
  4. Qualitative Adjective
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈmoʊbəl/

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    mobile

    Definitions

    1. (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently

    Examples

    • « 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. 2. having transportation available

    Synonyms

  3. 3. capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another

    Examples

    • « a highly mobile face »

    Synonyms

  4. 4. affording change (especially in social status)

    Examples

    • « Britain is not a truly fluid society »
    • « upwardly mobile »

    Synonyms

  5. Noun

    Mobile

    Definitions

    1. a river in southwestern Alabama

    Examples

    • « flows into Mobile Bay »
  6. 2. a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
  7. 3. sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

    Antonyms

  8. Qualitative Adjective

    mobile

    Etymology

    late 15th century: via French from Latin mobilis, from movere‘to move’. The noun dates from the 1940s

    Definitions

    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

    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

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