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mobile
1[ moh-buhl, -beelor, especially British, -bahyl ]
adjective
- capable of moving or being moved readily.
- Digital Technology. pertaining to or noting a cell phone, usually one with computing ability, or a portable, wireless computing device used while held in the hand, as in mobile tablet mobile PDA mobile app
- utilizing motor vehicles for ready movement:
a mobile library.
- Military. permanently 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 relating to a mobile.
noun
- a 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. Compare stabile ( def 3 ).
- Informal. a mobile home.
- Citizens Band Radio Slang. a vehicle.
Mobile
2[ moh-beel, moh-beel ]
noun
- a seaport in SW Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River.
- a river in SW Alabama, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. 38 miles (61 km) long.
-mobile
3- a combining form extracted from automobile, occurring as the final element in compounds denoting specialized types of motorized conveyances: snowmobile; especially productive in coinages naming vehicles equipped to procure or deliver objects, provide services, etc., to people without regular access to these: bloodmobile; bookmobile; clubmobile; jazzmobile.
mobile
1/ ˈməʊbaɪl /
adjective
- having freedom of movement; movable
- changing quickly in expression
a mobile face
- sociol (of individuals or social groups) moving within and between classes, occupations, and localities
upwardly mobile
- (of military forces) able to move freely and quickly to any given area
- informal.postpositive having transport available
are you mobile tonight?
noun
- a sculpture suspended in midair with delicately balanced parts that are set in motion by air currents
- ( as modifier ) Compare stabile
mobile sculpture
- short for mobile phone
Mobile
2/ ˈməʊbiːl; məʊˈbiːl /
noun
- 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)
-mobile
3/ məʊˌbiːl /
suffix forming nouns
- indicating a vehicle designed for a particular person or purpose
Popemobile
mobile
- A sculpture made up of suspended shapes that move.
Notes
Other Words From
- non·mobile adjective
- semi·mobile adjective
- un·mobile adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of mobile1
Example Sentences
Some campaigners argue the OSA does not go far enough, and will need to be toughened or supplemented with other restrictions, for example on mobile phone use by young people.
Ghana's digital ecosystem has seen "significant growth" especially in areas such as mobile phone connectivity, Charles Abani, head of the United Nations team in Ghana, remarked last month.
I get the argument for Kane but he is getting older and isn't as mobile as he once was.
Additionally, the games will air on broadcast TV in the competing teams’ cities and be available on U.S. mobile devices with NFL+, the streamer said, to keep with tradition.
Late at night in October 2022, my mobile lit up with a withheld number.
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