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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈməʊbaɪl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmoʊbəl/, /ˈmoʊbil/, /ˈmoʊbaɪl/, sculpture always IPA(key): /ˈmoʊbil/
Adjective
Noun
Adjective
[edit]mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)
- Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
- Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
- mobile number
- mobile internet
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist[1], volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
- Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
- Mercury is a mobile liquid.
- Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
- the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
- Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
- mobile features
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 176:
- His finely cut features were capable of every variety of expression; they were, to use a French epithet, expressive as their epithets for all social qualities usually are, mobile in the extreme.
- (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
Derived terms
[edit]- cellular mobile
- ground mobile force
- MASH
- mobile chicane
- mobile crane
- mobile data
- mobile elevating work platform
- mobile game
- mobile genetic element
- mobile home
- mobile home park
- mobile library
- mobile number
- mobile phase
- mobile phone
- mobile reporting
- mobile speed bump
- mobile station
- mobile telephone
- mobile translation
- mobile virtual network operator
- mobile wad
- Muskmobile
- nonmobile
- s-mobile
- socially mobile
- upwardly mobile
Translations
[edit]capable of being moved
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pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones
characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity
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changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind
biology: capable of spontaneous movement
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Noun
[edit]mobile (plural mobiles)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Colourful_mobile.jpg/220px-Colourful_mobile.jpg)
- (art) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
- (telephony, UK, Ireland) Ellipsis of mobile phone.
- Synonym: cell phone
- 2000, “Idioteque”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead:
- Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run
- (uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.
- there are many business opportunities in mobile
- One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
- 1963, Highway Research Record:
- […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles". […] We concentrated on a mobile teenager population that had good public transportation or automobile access and a […]
- 1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:
- Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.
- 2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:
- One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The 'immobiles' brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used […]
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]decoration
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mobile phone — see mobile phone
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mobile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “mobile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “mobile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
mobile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
mobile phone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
mobile (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mobile
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmobile/, [ˈmo̞bile̞] (nalle-type declension)
- IPA(key): /ˈmobileˣ/, [ˈmo̞bile̞(ʔ)] (hame-type declension)
- Rhymes: -obile
- Syllabification(key): mo‧bi‧le
Noun
[edit]mobile
- mobile (kinetic sculpture)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of mobile (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | mobile | mobilet | |
genitive | mobilen | mobilejen | |
partitive | mobilea | mobileja | |
illative | mobileen | mobileihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mobile | mobilet | |
accusative | nom. | mobile | mobilet |
gen. | mobilen | ||
genitive | mobilen | mobilejen mobilein rare | |
partitive | mobilea | mobileja | |
inessive | mobilessa | mobileissa | |
elative | mobilesta | mobileista | |
illative | mobileen | mobileihin | |
adessive | mobilella | mobileilla | |
ablative | mobilelta | mobileilta | |
allative | mobilelle | mobileille | |
essive | mobilena | mobileina | |
translative | mobileksi | mobileiksi | |
abessive | mobiletta | mobileitta | |
instructive | — | mobilein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Inflection of mobile (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | mobile | mobileet | |
genitive | mobileen | mobileiden mobileitten | |
partitive | mobiletta | mobileita | |
illative | mobileeseen | mobileisiin mobileihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mobile | mobileet | |
accusative | nom. | mobile | mobileet |
gen. | mobileen | ||
genitive | mobileen | mobileiden mobileitten | |
partitive | mobiletta | mobileita | |
inessive | mobileessa | mobileissa | |
elative | mobileesta | mobileista | |
illative | mobileeseen | mobileisiin mobileihin | |
adessive | mobileella | mobileilla | |
ablative | mobileelta | mobileilta | |
allative | mobileelle | mobileille | |
essive | mobileena | mobileina | |
translative | mobileeksi | mobileiksi | |
abessive | mobileetta | mobileitta | |
instructive | — | mobilein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading
[edit]- “mobile”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin mōbilis. Doublet of meuble.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mobile (plural mobiles)
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Turkish: mobil
Noun
[edit]mobile m (plural mobiles)
- (physics) moving body
- mobile (decoration)
- motive (for an action, for a crime)
- mobile phone; Ellipsis of téléphone mobile.
- Synonyms: cell, téléphone cellulaire, cellulaire, téléphone mobile, téléphone portable, portable
Further reading
[edit]- “mobile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
[edit]mobile
- inflection of mobil:
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably borrowed from Latin mōbilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mobile (plural mobili, superlative mobilissimo)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]mobile m (plural mobili)
- (in the singular) piece of furniture (item of furniture)
- (in the plural) furniture
- Synonyms: mobilia, mobilio, arredamento
- (heraldry) charge
- mobile (cellular phone)
- Synonyms: cellulare, telefonino
- Antonym: fisso
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- mobile in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- mobile in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- mobile in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- mòbile1 in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmoː.bi.le/, [ˈmoːbɪɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.bi.le/, [ˈmɔːbile]
Adjective
[edit]mōbile
References
[edit]- mobile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mobile
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mobile
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]mobile
- inflection of mobilar:
Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]mobile
Swedish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mobile
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