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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

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;


ADJECTIVE (5)

1. migratory;
- Example: "a restless mobile society"
- Example: "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"
- Example: "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"
- Example: "wandering tribes"
[syn: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering]

2. moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place);
- Example: "a mobile missile system"
- Example: "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"

3. having transportation available;

4. capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another;
- Example: "a highly mobile face"

5. affording change (especially in social status);
- Example: "Britain is not a truly fluid society"
- Example: "upwardly mobile"
[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.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   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]