Mobile
['məʊbaɪl] or ['mobaɪl]
Definition
(noun.) sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents.
(noun.) a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay.
(noun.) a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay.
(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.) 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' .
Checked by Bernadette--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Movable, sensitive, fickle, inconstant, variable, ductile
ANT:Immovable, inexorable, unfeeling, unvarying
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Definition
adj. that can be moved or excited.—n. Mobilisā′tion.—v.t. Mō′bilise to put in readiness for service in war: to call into active service as troops.—n. Mobil′ity quality of being mobile: (slang) the mob.—Cré–it mobilier the system in banking of advancing money to the owners of movable property—as opposed to Credit foncier on the security of real or immovable property.
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Examples
- Canby appeared before Mobile on the 27th of March. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But the spring campaign against Mobile was not made. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They were more mobile than his troops, but they missed their quarry in the darkness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Troops had been sent north by Halleck along the line of the Mobile and Ohio railroad to put it in repair as far as Columbus. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This will give us the same control of the harbor of Wilmington that we now have of the harbor of Mobile. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Canby is preparing a movement from Mobile Bay against Mobile and the interior of Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If successful he will secure the line from Chattanooga to Mobile with the aid of Banks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There were purpose and feeling, banter and scoff, playing, mingled, on her mobile lineaments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Crassus found himself against the Scythian again; against mobile tribes of horsemen led by a monarch in Median costume. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With this force he is to commence operations against Mobile as soon as he can. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was small, nervous, alert with intelligent light-blue eyes and mobile features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- With these forces my idea would have been to divide them, sending one half to Mobile and the other half to Savannah. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mobile was important to the enemy, and in the absence of a threatening force was guarded by little else than artillery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I also had great hopes of having a campaign made against Mobile from the Gulf. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As I have said, until this unexpected state of affairs happened, Mobile had been looked upon as the objective point of Sherman's army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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