[syn: fluid, mobile]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mobile \Mo"bile\, a. [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.
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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.
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3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable;
changeable; fickle. --Testament of Love.
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The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition.
--Hawthorne.
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4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence
of the mind; as, mobile features.
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5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited;
capable of spontaneous movement.
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6. Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place
to place; as, a mobile work force.
[PJC]
7. Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to
place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mobile \Mo"bile\ (m[=o]"b[i^]l; L. m[o^]b"[i^]*l[=e]), n. [L.
mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf. 3d Mob.]
The mob; the populace. [Obs.] "The unthinking mobile."
--South.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mobile \Mo"bile\ (m[=o]"b[=e]l`), n.
a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff
material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a
balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the
topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the
parts may move independently when set in motion by a current
of air.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mobile
adj 1: 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" [syn: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving,
wandering]
2: moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to
place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most
mobile articulator" [ant: immobile]
3: having transportation available
4: capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to
another; "a highly mobile face"
5: affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is
not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: fluid,
mobile]
n 1: a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
[syn: Mobile, Mobile River]
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 [ant: stabile]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "mobile":
able to adapt, active, adaptable, adjustable, agile, alert,
all-around, alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, ambulant,
ambulatory, animated, art object, brainchild, bric-a-brac, bronze,
capricious, cast, changeable, changeful, checkered, classic,
composition, creation, design, driving, ever-changing, expressive,
facile, fickle, flexible, fluid, grotesque, impelling, impermanent,
in motion, inconstant, kaleidoscopic, kitsch, liquid, malleable,
many-sided, marble, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mechanical,
mercurial, metamorphic, migrant, modifiable, motile, motivational,
motive, motor, motorized, movable, moving, museum piece, mutable,
nimble, nonuniform, nude, old master, pasticcio, pastiche,
permutable, piece, piece of virtu, plastic, portable, propellant,
propelling, protean, proteiform, quick, resilient, responsive,
rubbery, sculpture, sensitive, stabile, statue, still life,
stirring, study, supple, terra cotta, transient, transitional,
transitory, transmigratory, transportable, traveling, unfixed,
unsettled, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, variable, versatile,
virtu, work, work of art
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Mobile -- U.S. County in Alabama
Population (2000): 399843
Housing Units (2000): 165101
Land area (2000): 1233.090896 sq. miles (3193.690623 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 410.931906 sq. miles (1064.308706 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1644.022802 sq. miles (4257.999329 sq. km)
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 30.722256 N, 88.139667 W
Headwords:
Mobile
Mobile, AL
Mobile County
Mobile County, AL
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Mobile, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 198915
Housing Units (2000): 86187
Land area (2000): 117.903061 sq. miles (305.367514 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 41.531877 sq. miles (107.567062 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 159.434938 sq. miles (412.934576 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50000
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 30.679523 N, 88.103280 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36602 36603 36604 36605 36606 36607
36608 36609 36612 36617 36618 36619
36693 36695
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mobile, AL
Mobile