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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024mo•bile /ˈmoʊbəl, -bil/USA pronunciation adj. - capable of moving or being moved easily or quickly:My grandmother was still mobile when she was 99.
- Transportusing a motor vehicle for easy movement from place to place:a mobile x-ray unit.
- changing easily in expression, mood, etc.:a mobile face.
- Sociologypermitting the moving from one social group, class, or level to another:The society was upwardly mobile.
n. [countable] - Fine Arta sculpture or other hanging device, usually having delicately balanced parts that can move independently, as when stirred by a breeze.
mo•bil•i•ty /moʊˈbɪlɪti/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]See -mob-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mo•bile (mō′bəl, -bēl or, esp. Brit., -bīl for 1-8, 10, 11; mō′bēl or, Brit., -bīl for 9),USA pronunciation adj. - capable of moving or being moved readily.
- Transportutilizing motor vehicles for ready movement:a mobile library.
- Militarypermanently equipped with vehicles for transport.
- flowing freely, as a liquid.
- changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc.:a mobile face.
- quickly responding to impulses, emotions, etc., as the mind.
- Sociology
- characterized by or permitting the mixing of social groups.
- characterized by or permitting relatively free movement from one social class or level to another.
- of or pertaining to a mobile.
n. - Fine Arta 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. Cf. stabile (def. 3).
- Informal Terms, Transporta mobile home.
- Show Business[CB Radio Slang.]a vehicle.
- Latin, neuter of mōbilis movable, equivalent. to mō- (variant stem of movēre to move) + -bilis -ble
- 1480–90
- Place Namesa seaport in SW Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River. 200,452.
- Place Namesa river in SW Alabama, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. 38 mi. (61 km) long.
-mobile, - Transporta combining form extracted from automobile, occurring as the final element in compounds denoting specialized types of motorized conveyances:snowmobile;
esp. productive in coinages naming vehicles equipped to procure or deliver objects, provide services, etc., to people without regular access to these:bloodmobile; clubmobile;jazzmobile.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: mobile /ˈməʊbaɪl/ adj - having freedom of movement; movable
- changing quickly in expression: a mobile face
- (of individuals or social groups) moving within and between classes, occupations, and localities
- (of military forces) able to move freely and quickly to any given area
- (postpositive) informal having transport available: are you mobile tonight?
n - a sculpture suspended in midair with delicately balanced parts that are set in motion by air currents
- (as modifier): mobile sculpture
- short for mobile phone
Etymology: 15th Century: via Old French from Latin mōbilis, from movēre to move Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Mobile /ˈməʊbiːl; məʊˈbiːl/ n - 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 Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -mobile /məʊˌbiːl/ suffix forming nouns - indicating a vehicle designed for a particular person or purpose: Popemobile
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