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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mobile" is a kind of...):
sculpture (a three-dimensional work of plastic art)
Antonym:
stabile (a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("Mobile" is a part of...):
AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Mobile" is a part of...):
AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Affording change (especially in social status)
Example:
upwardly mobile
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
Example:
a highly mobile face
Classified under:
Similar:
changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
Example:
the tongue is...the most mobile articulator
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
waterborne (transported by water)
versatile (able to move freely in all directions)
transplantable (capable of being transplanted)
seaborne (conveyed by sea)
rotatable (capable of being rotated)
rangy (adapted to wandering or roaming)
raisable; raiseable (capable of being raised)
racy (designed or suitable for competing in a race)
perambulating (strolling or walking around)
movable; moveable; transferable; transferrable; transportable (capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another)
motile ((of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement)
mechanised; mechanized; motorized (using vehicles)
maneuverable; manoeuvrable (capable of maneuvering or changing position)
floating (inclined to move or be moved about)
ambulant; ambulatory (able to walk about)
airborne (moved or conveyed by or through air)
Also:
moving (in motion)
Antonym:
immobile (not capable of movement or of being moved)
Derivation:
mobility (the quality of moving freely)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Having transportation available
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
moving (in motion)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Migratory
Example:
wandering tribes
Synonyms:
mobile; nomadic; peregrine; roving; wandering
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unsettled (not settled or established)
Derivation:
mobility (the quality of moving freely)
Context examples:
Highly mobile foragers appear to favor turbulent areas because these locations contain particularly abundant food sources.
(Galapagos sea life study highlights importance of biodiversity in the face of climate change, National Science Foundation)
Study involving nearly 700 adolescents in Switzerland found that memory performance of specific brain regions exposed to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields during mobile phone use may be adversely affected.
(Cell Phone Radiation Harmful for Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A mass in the mammary gland, either mobile or immobile.
(Breast Lump, NCI Thesaurus)
Several high-tech companies are teaming up on a plan to put a mobile phone network on the moon next year.
(Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network, VOA)
A technique for the separation of complex mixtures that relys on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass.
(Chromatography, NCI Thesaurus)
Chromatographic techniques in which the mobile phase is a liquid.
(Liquid Chromatography, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Internet Mobile Technology (e.g. iphone, mobile websites, epocrates)
(Internet Mobile Technology, Food and Drug Administration)
The sequence of numbers or characters, that when dialed, connects to a particular mobile telephone.
(Mobile Telephone Number, NCI Thesaurus)
He was small, nervous, alert with intelligent light-blue eyes and mobile features.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A number of major cellphone companies, including U.S-based AT&T and German rival T-Mobile, unilaterally announced a halt to sales and exchanges of the Galaxy Note 7 on Sunday.
(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)
