mobile
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/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (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)
- (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): /ˈmobileˣ/, [ˈmo̞bile̞(ʔ)] (nalle-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 mobileinrare | ||
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] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), 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) 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
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Portuguese edit
Verb edit
mobile
- inflection of mobilar:
Romanian edit
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mobile
Swedish edit
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