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Definitions for: Mobile
[n] sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
[n] a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
[n] a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
[adj] affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile"
[adj] capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face"
[adj] moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"
[adj] having transportation available
[adj] (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
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.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited;
capable of spontaneous movement.
Mo"bile, n. [L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and
cf. 3d Mob.]
The mob; the populace. [Obs.] ``The unthinking mobile.''
--South.
Synonyms: airborne, ambulant, ambulatory, changeable, changeful, floating, fluid, flying, maneuverable, manoeuvrable, mechanised, mechanized, Mobile River, motile, motorized, movable, moveable, nomadic, perambulating, peregrine, raisable, raiseable, rangy, rotatable, roving, seaborne, transferable, transferrable, transplantable, transportable, unsettled, versatile, wandering, waterborne
Antonyms: immobile, stabile
See Also: AL, AL, Alabama, Alabama, Camellia State, Camellia State, city, Heart of Dixie, Heart of Dixie, metropolis, moving, port, river, sculpture, urban center
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