Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mobile"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mobile \Mo"bile\, n. [L. mobile vulgus. See {Mobile}, a., and
cf. 3d {Mob}.]
The mob; the populace. [Obs.] ``The unthinking mobile.''
--South.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mobile
adj 1: moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place
to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue
is...the most mobile articulator" [ant: {immobile}]
2: (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}]
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}]
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}]
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