MOBILE

fluid, mobile

(adjective) affording change (especially in social status); “Britain is not a truly fluid society”; “upwardly mobile”

mobile

(adjective) capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; “a highly mobile face”

mobile

(adjective) moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); “a mobile missile system”; “the tongue is...the most mobile articulator”

mobile

(adjective) having transportation available

mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering

(adjective) migratory; “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

(noun) sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

Mobile

(noun) a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay

Mobile, Mobile River

(noun) a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

Antonyms: fixed, immobile, sessile, stationary

Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.

Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

Synonyms: excitable, fickle

Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.

(biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

Noun

mobile (plural mobiles)

(arts) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.

(telephony, UK) Ellipsis of mobile phone.

Synonym: cell phone

(uncountable, internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.

Something that can move.

Anagrams

• bemoil, emboil, emboli

Etymology

From the name of (Mobile Bay, from the name of) the Mobile tribe, perhaps from the name of a Native town somewhere in what is now central Alabama, various spelled Mabila or Maubila.

Proper noun

Mobile

A city, the county seat of Mobile County in southwestern Alabama.

Anagrams

• bemoil, emboil, emboli

Source: Wiktionary


Mo"bile, a. Etym: [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.)

Definition: Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

Mo"bile, n. Etym: [L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf. 3d Mob.]

Definition: The mob; the populace. [Obs.] "The unthinking mobile." South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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