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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mobile
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mobile libraryBritish English (= a small library inside a vehicle)
▪ A mobile library visits the village once a week.
downwardly mobile
mobile home
mobile phone
▪ mobile phone users
upwardly mobile
▪ the upwardly mobile middle classes
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Charged solitons are not as mobile as their neutral counterparts.
▪ And the Southeast is seeing growing numbers of service jobs attracting young singles as well as mobile baby boomers.
highly
▪ These highly mobile skirmishers can be used to draw Goblin fanatics out of their units prior to a charge by more heavily armed troops.
▪ Today, with highly mobile international capital, large deficits can be sustained for much longer.
▪ A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit.
▪ The chimpanzee is highly mobile and semi-terrestrial, showing great adaptability to a wide range of woodlands.
▪ The usual pattern of referral and case allocation is unsuited to highly mobile families.
▪ They consist of highly mobile young people and families, commuters, and tourists, as well as disadvantaged groups such as refugees.
more
▪ People became more mobile, both physically and socially; men wished to rise in the world.
▪ However, the fabulous goal-kicker is now much more mobile than he was last year when a niggling groin injury affected him.
▪ Sao Paulo boasts more mobile telephones than Paris.
▪ In general, therefore, subcontract labour will tend to be more mobile than directly employed labour.
▪ Actually, only Black has chances to win, in view of his dark square control and more mobile pawns.
▪ The communiqué reaffirmed the trend to arms reductions and smaller, more mobile forces.
▪ After 20 sessions, 70 percent of those breathing pure oxygen tired less easily and became more mobile and co-ordinated.
▪ Elsewhere, the war was more mobile.
most
▪ I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.
▪ These workers are the most mobile and have the greatest incentive to evaluate carefully the relative and absolute risks.
socially
▪ They are socially mobile, many of them having risen from working class backgrounds to new heights in the class structure.
▪ Children are more likely to obtain jobs in the class bracket of their fathers than they are to be socially mobile.
upwardly
▪ A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.
▪ We had moved to an upwardly mobile suburb of Chicago.
▪ The Kotalawalas and the in Rayigam Korale, were both upwardly mobile Goyigama families with much local influence.
▪ The congregation was mostly young, unmarried, well-educated and upwardly mobile.
▪ The Praga became a favoured haunt for upwardly mobile apparatchiks, visiting VIPs and wedding parties.
▪ Conforming to the more rigid traditions such as locking up women is a privilege only the upwardly mobile can afford.
▪ Perhaps the upwardly mobile middle classes in 1990s Detroit are now surrounding themselves with postmodern houses and artefacts!
▪ He should be an achiever and upwardly mobile in his job.
■ NOUN
clinic
▪ The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
▪ We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
face
▪ They did not show emotions as plainly as more mobile faces did.
▪ He finds a woman in black lace, with piercing eyes and a mobile face.
home
▪ The couple moved a mobile home on to their twenty acre smallholding at Awre after they bought the land four years ago.
▪ My dad was a minister, and we traveled a lot on weekends in a mobile home.
▪ As soon as it is sold the 58-year-old widow plans to move into the mobile home in nearby Laguna Beach.
▪ Some 70 mobile homes were flooded.
▪ A 36-year-old woman died when a tornado swept through her mobile home.
▪ The retired Internal Revenue Service employee paid $ 15, 500 for the two-bedroom mobile home on space 72.
▪ At first all structures will be temporary - mobile homes and the like.
▪ Ruestman died from a single shot to his heart after answering a knock at the front door of his mobile home.
launcher
▪ The mobile launcher sat on pedestals over a 17.7 m wide flame trench.
▪ The combination of pad, mobile launcher and flame trench was cooled with a water deluge system.
▪ The crawler, mobile launchers and launch pads are all modified versions of the original components used for Apollo.
▪ On the mobile launcher the white room at the end of the swing arm connects with this hatch.
▪ In any case, you can not destroy all the mobile launchers, such as Polaris submarines.
▪ A Saturn V sits on its mobile launcher at complex 39A.
library
▪ A mobile library visits once a fortnight.
▪ A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library.
mouth
▪ I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.
phase
▪ Separation of the components on or in the stationary phase by a continuous flow of the mobile phase.
▪ Both depend on the partition of the components of the mixture between a stationary phase and a mobile phase.
▪ The sections on column and mobile phase selection, and on instrumental parameters, make interesting reading.
▪ The components are partitioned between the liquid and the mobile phase.
▪ In both types of chromatography, portions of each component remain dissolved in the mobile phase.
▪ The mobile phase flows continuously over the stationary phase and as it does so separates the components on the stationary phase.
phone
▪ It is all made possible by smart phones, the next generation mobile phones equipped with a Psion-designed operating system.
▪ He whined on the air for three weeks before one of his sponsors relented and gave him a free mobile phone.
▪ Tarquin is in the corridor calling on his mobile phone.
▪ There wasn't a dry eye on the terrace-until somebody's mobile phone went off, anachronistically.
▪ The researchers used a radio with similar frequency and power to a typical mobile phone to demonstrate the effect in their lab.
▪ It used to be only the City yuppie, but now most people can afford a mobile phone.
▪ Consumers are thought to be waiting to see if new mobile phone services and email via television meet their needs.
▪ There is still no mobile phone system, no credit cards and no convertible currency.
radio
▪ In November another dispute arose involving Chalerm when he criticized the Army's seizure of a mobile radio unit.
▪ The 1990s have been characterized by record-breaking growth in most wireless segments, including cellular, paging, and specialized mobile radio.
▪ A cellular phone is really a mobile radio system that sends a signal out over public airwaves.
service
▪ Director Malcolm Ashman said mobile services could be a vital contact.
▪ It's the first exclusively online mobile service, available to customers who access its services.
▪ Hutchison plans to roll out its mobile service nationally, either late next year or early in 1994.
shop
▪ In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves.
▪ A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop.
telephone
▪ Meanwhile, the company hopes to go ahead later this month with the launch of its Creditphone mobile telephone service.
▪ It said he had spoken with her by mobile telephone several times that night.
▪ It competes with three other mobile telephone companies.
▪ He used a scanner to listen, at random, to mobile telephone conversations.
▪ As a result, prior to the cellular authorization, only some fifty-four channels were allocated for mobile telephone service nationwide.
▪ It included radio and television stations, paging devices, mobile telephones, Orion Pictures and the Harlem Globetrotters.
▪ Shares of telecommunications companies like Newbridge fell after mobile telephone maker Motorola Inc. yesterday reported lower-than-expected earnings.
unit
▪ A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit.
▪ More air mobile units were on the way.
▪ For example, two new mobile units are now taking chiropody and dentistry to the villages.
▪ There were lines of people selling blood at mobile units, people who seemed hollow-bodied, so small, in such collapse.
▪ There's certainly one mobile unit on the market at the moment, though not many people realize it.
▪ Seniors can make appointments to visit the mobile unit by calling their local senior center.
▪ Air Quality work has gathered pace, after the disastrous loss of our mobile unit at the beginning of the year.
▪ We were recording in a mobile unit in this street, because I'd broken my leg.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Alligators are really mobile animals, used to moving from one body of water to another.
▪ Ethel needed help on the stairs, but was otherwise mobile.
▪ He won't be mobile for some time. It's a bad knee sprain.
▪ It's important to keep the patient mobile during recovery.
▪ Neuman revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour.
▪ Remote areas are served by a number of weekly mobile clinics.
▪ She has an extraordinarily mobile face and an infectiously comic manner.
▪ The community currently receives service from a rural mobile library.
▪ The population of the U.S. has become more geographically and socially mobile.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As soon as it is sold the 58-year-old widow plans to move into the mobile home in nearby Laguna Beach.
▪ Eleven mobile eye screening units are now in operation throughout the United Kingdom.
▪ The mobile phase flows continuously over the stationary phase and as it does so separates the components on the stationary phase.
▪ The 1990s have been characterized by record-breaking growth in most wireless segments, including cellular, paging, and specialized mobile radio.
▪ They agreed to leave the hill and their mobile homes behind, and to remove the mobile homes on Sunday.
▪ Using souped-up scanners and antennas, thieves station themselves near mobile phone callers.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A patrol is already searching, and other mobiles are on stand-by.
▪ Around two thirds of the mobile increased their social class while around one third moved downward.
▪ Digital mobiles witter noisily at high frequencies.
▪ Members sat beneath handmade mobiles hung with colorful Origami birds.
▪ So mobiles are the new car radios.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mobile

Mobile \Mo"bile\ (m[=o]"b[i^]l; L. m[o^]b"[i^]*l[=e]), n. [L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf. 3d Mob.] The mob; the populace. [Obs.] ``The unthinking mobile.''
--South.

Mobile

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.

  6. Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force.

  7. Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.

Mobile

Mobile \Mo"bile\ (m[=o]"b[=e]l`), n. a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Mobile

city in Alabama, U.S., attested c.1540 in Spanish as Mauvila, referring to an Indian group and perhaps from Choctaw (Muskogean) moeli "to paddle." Related: Mobilian.

mobile

late 15c., from Middle French mobile (14c.), from Latin mobilis "movable, easy to move; loose, not firm," figuratively, "pliable, flexible, susceptible, nimble, quick; changeable, inconstant, fickle," contraction of *movibilis, from movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Sociology sense from 1927. Mobile home first recorded 1940.

mobile

early 15c. in astronomy, "outer sphere of the universe," from mobile (adj.); the artistic sense is first recorded 1949 as a shortening of mobile sculpture (1936). Now-obsolete sense of "the common people, the rabble" (1670s) led to mob (n.).

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Wiktionary
mobile

a. 1 Capable of being moved. 2 By agency of mobile phones. n. 1 A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20(sculpture)). 2 A mobile phone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20phone). 3 Something that can move.

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WordNet
mobile

  1. adj. 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]

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Gazetteer
Mobile, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 198915
Housing Units (2000): 86187
Land area (2000): 117.903061 sq. miles (305.367514 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 41.531877 sq. miles (107.567062 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 159.434938 sq. miles (412.934576 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50000
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 30.679523 N, 88.103280 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36602 36603 36604 36605 36606 36607
36608 36609 36612 36617 36618 36619
36693 36695
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mobile, AL
Mobile
Mobile -- U.S. County in Alabama
Population (2000): 399843
Housing Units (2000): 165101
Land area (2000): 1233.090896 sq. miles (3193.690623 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 410.931906 sq. miles (1064.308706 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1644.022802 sq. miles (4257.999329 sq. km)
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 30.722256 N, 88.139667 W
Headwords:
Mobile
Mobile, AL
Mobile County
Mobile County, AL
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Wikipedia
Mobile

Mobile often refers to:

  • Mobile phone, a portable communications device
  • Mobile (sculpture), a hanging artwork or toy

Mobile may also refer to:

Mobile (band)

Mobile were a Canadian alternative rock band from Montreal initially composed of Mathieu Joly (vocals), Christian Brais (guitar), Pierre-Marc Hamelin (drums), Dominic Viola (bass) and Frank Williamson (guitar). Their debut album, Tomorrow Starts Today, was released in 2006. The band was nominated for two Juno Awards in 2007 and went on to win the award for "New Group of the Year". Hamelin left the band and was replaced by Martin Lavallée.

Mobile (TV series)

Mobile is a 3-part British television drama series with an interweaving plot involving a fictional mobile phone operator and the adverse-effect of mobile phone radiation to health. The series was screened by ITV in the United Kingdom, during March 2007. The cast includes Jamie Draven, Neil Fitzmaurice, Keith Allen, Sunetra Sarker, Samantha Bond, Brittany Ashworth and Julie Graham. It was written by John Fay.

Mobile (album)

Mobile is the last album from Beaver, and one of the last released on Man's Ruin Records. Thus, it is out of print.

Mobile (sculpture)

A mobile ( or ) is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of equilibrium. It consists of a number of rods, from which weighted objects or further rods hang. The objects hanging from the rods balance each other, so that the rods remain more or less horizontal. Each rod hangs from only one string, which gives it freedom to rotate about the string. An ensemble of these balanced parts hang freely in space, by design without coming into contact with each other.

Mobiles are popular in the nursery, where they hang over cribs to give infants entertainment and visual stimulation. Mobiles have inspired many composers, including Morton Feldman and Earle Brown who were inspired by Alexander Calder's mobiles to create mobile-like indeterminate pieces. Frank Zappa also claimed that his compositions were modelled on Calder mobiles.

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Usage examples of "mobile".

His upper lip was furry and mobile, making his face more expressive than those of earlier adapid species.

January nineteenth, 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, I believe an Iraqi aircraft penetrated our defenses and sprayed aflatoxin over Seabees and the Twenty-fourth Naval Mobile Construction Battalion near the port of Al Jubayl in Saudi Arabia.

Pleistocene Age, when the world warmed up and people became much more mobile, and that the cultivation of wild species, before agriculture proper, encouraged the birth of more children.

Few of the men in the valley would have aspired to match her combination of strength, mobile athleticism and sheer brutality in unarmed combat.

Next, was the growing need for mobile access to information, and the availability of so much data in the digital domain.

The bravos fixed their mobile eyes on Pandaras as he stared out and asked Azoth many questions about the places they passed.

Two of his mobile phones are bickering moronically, disputing ownership of his grid bandwidth.

The inhabitatants-as they were called-were fast asleep, from the tiniest songbird to Project Director Bulla in his mobile home a quarter mile away.

And the tall fair-skinned senior boy who was valedictorian as- cended rapidly to the stage and crossed to the podium in his cap and gown, his posture, manner, stride suggesting an upright and very mobile pair oi scissors.

It was a mobile bar, combining the worst features of a Coney Island ride with uninspired cocktails, and Gallegher hesitated on the threshold.

Inside, Judy Cuttle had done what she could to turn a mobile home into an Edwardian farmhouse, complete with antimacassars and rusty photos in bamboo frames of geezers in waistcoats and glum women in cameoes.

Charles Geisler, who earlier spoke to us from the Ugly Duckling on his mobile phone.

In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone.

The Equinox EMH made his statement casually while eying the mobile emitter with understandable curiosity.

Iraq also built 8 indigenous mobile erector launchers and 28 fixed erector-launchers to supplement the Soviet TELs.