Etymology : Middle English mobyll, from Middle French mobile, from Latin mobilis, from movEre to move
Pronunciation : mO-b&l, -"bIl
also Function : adjective
Date : 15th century
1. decorative structure made with delicate objects that are strung in balance on rods and are sensitive to the breeze or light touch; decorative structure made of plastic toys that is hung over a crib as an amusement for babies; cellular phone. moveable, portable, flowing freely; changing quickly, changeable; of services provided from a vehicle. mobile\mo"bile\ , n. [l. mobile vulgus. see:
mobile, a., and cf. 3d mob.] the mob; the populace. [obs.] "the unthinking mobile."mobile \mo"bile\ , a. [l. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to move: cf. f. mobile. see:
move.].
2. capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "fixed or else mobile.".
3. 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.
4. easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition.
5. changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
6. (physiol.) capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.mobile adj.
7. moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator" [ant: immobile].
8. (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" [syn: nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering].
9. having transportation available.
10. capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face".
11. affording change (especially in social status); "britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: fluid] n 1: a river in southwestern alabama; flows into mobile bay [syn: mobile, mobile river] 2: a port in southwestern alabama on mobile bay [syn: mobile] 3: sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents [ant: stabile].
12. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
13. 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.
14. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
15. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
16. Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
17. The mob; the populace. sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face" moving or capable of moving readily ; "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator" having transportation available 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".
18. 1. You use mobile to describe something large that can be moved easily from place to place. the four hundred seat mobile theatre.
19. If you are mobile, you can move or travel easily from place to place, for example because you are not physically disabled or because you have your own transport. I'm still very mobile. + mobility mo·bil·ity Two cars gave them the freedom and mobility to go their separate ways.
20. In a mobile society, people move easily from one job, home, or social class to another. We're a very mobile society, and people move after they get divorced. young, mobile professionals. + mobility mo·bil·ity Prior to the nineteenth century, there were almost no channels of social mobility.
21. A mobile is a decoration which you hang from a ceiling. It usually consists of several small objects which move as the air around them moves.
22. A mobile is the same as a mobile phone. see also:
upwardly mobile. a city which is Alabama's only port and one of the busiest ports in the US. City (pop., 2000: 198,915), southwestern Alabama, U.S., situated on Mobile Bay at the mouth of the Mobile River. The site was explored by Spaniards in 1519. French colonists built a fort near the river's mouth in 1702. It served as the capital of French Louisiana until 1720. It was ceded to the British in 1763 and captured by the Spanish during the American Revolution. Incorporated as a town in 1814 as part of West Florida, it passed to the U.S. with the purchase of Florida from Spain in 1819. During the American Civil War it was an important Confederate port, but Federal forces won the Battle of Mobile Bay and captured the city. The state's only seaport, it is a major industrial and manufacturing centre and the site of several institutions of higher education. Abstract sculpture that has moving parts, driven either by motors or by the natural force of air currents. Its revolving parts create a new visual experience of constantly changing volumes and forms. The term was initially suggested by Marcel Duchamp for a 1932 Paris exhibition of such works by Alexander Calder, who became the mobile's greatest exponent.
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