| 单词 | mobile |
| 释义 | mobile (once / 297 pages) adjn When something is mobile it can move or be moved easily. If you walk to the end of the block talking on your cell phone, you are a mobile being using a mobile device. A mobile is something you hang over a crib to entertain the baby, or a scale model of the universe. In 1940, the word mobile was first used to refer to a house that could be easily moved — a mobile home. If someone says to you jokingly that they "are not mobile," it means that their car is not working. It will be hard for them to be upwardly mobile, or to improve their social status, if they don't get mobile and get to work soon! WORD FAMILYmobile: immobile, mobiles, mobilise, mobility, mobilize+/demobilise: demobilised, demobilising/demobilization: demobilizations/demobilize: demobilization, demobilized, demobilizes, demobilizing/immobile: immobilely, immobilise, immobility, immobilize/immobilise: immobilisation, immobilised, immobilising/immobility: immobilities/immobilize: immobilization, immobilized, immobilizes, immobilizing/mobilisation: demobilisation, mobilisations/mobilise: demobilise, mobilisation, mobilised, mobilises, mobilising/mobilization: mobilizations/mobilize: demobilize, mobilization, mobilized, mobilizes, mobilizing USAGE EXAMPLESStarship’s robots work this way: Customers use a mobile app to order an item. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) It is linked to a mobile phone app which records the audio of the patient's chest. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) The satellites will be used to provide mobile communications on land, sea and air. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place) a mobile missile system the tongue is...the most mobile articulator Syn|Ant airborne moved or conveyed by or through air ambulant, ambulatoryable to walk about floatinginclined to move or be moved about maneuverable, manoeuvrablecapable of maneuvering or changing position mechanised, mechanized, motorizedusing vehicles motile(of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement movable, moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportablecapable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another perambulatingstrolling or walking around racydesigned or suitable for competing in a race raisable, raiseablecapable of being raised rangyadapted to wandering or roaming rotatablecapable of being rotated seaborneconveyed by sea transplantablecapable of being transplanted versatileable to move freely in all directions waterbornetransported by water movingin motion immobile not capable of movement or of being moved immovable, immoveable, stabile, unmovablenot able or intended to be moved immotile, nonmotile(of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement stiffnot moving or operating freely nonmoving, unmovingnot in motion 2adj capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another a highly mobile face Syn changeable, changeful such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change 3adj affording change (especially in social status) upwardly mobile Syn fluid changeable, changeful such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change 4adj migratory a restless mobile society Syn nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering unsettled not settled or established 5adj having transportation available Syn moving in motion 6n sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents Ant|Hyper stabile a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support sculpture a three-dimensional work of plastic art Mobile (once / 1135 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY Mobile: Mobiles USAGE EXAMPLESThe area includes several large cities such as New Orleans; Jackson, Mississippi; and Mobile, Alabama. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The area included several large cities such as New Orleans; Jackson, Mississippi; and Mobile, Alabama. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Mobile phone data for all three men corroborated Ismail's statement that they were present in the area at the time Sarakat was delivered there. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) 1 n a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay 2Exp city, metropolis, urban center a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts porta place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country n a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay Syn|Exp Mobile River river a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) |
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