English Explanatory Dictionary

mobile

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
  2. Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
  3. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
  4. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
  5. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
  6. Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
noun
  1. A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
  2. Ellipsis of mobile phone.
  3. The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices.
  4. One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
  5. An object capable of moving under its own power.
  6. A creature or NPC that can navigate and interact with the game world (now often shortened to mob).
name
  1. A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.

Pronunciation

/ˈməʊ.baɪl/ En-uk-mobile.ogg /ˈmoʊ.bəl/ /ˈmoʊ.bil/ /ˈmoʊ.baɪl/ /moˈbɑjl/ [moː.bäːɪ̯l] /mɵˈbəjl/ [mö.bɐɪ̯l] /ˈmo.bəjl/ [moː.bɐɪ̯l] mōbēlʹ mōʹbēl /moʊˈbiːl/ /ˈmoʊbiːl/ /məʊˈbiːl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Mobile.wav

Word forms

mobile more mobile most mobile mobiles

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”). The video-gaming sense was coined by Richard Bartle to describe NPCs or creatures capable of moving "under their own power" in the 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon. Bartle retracted an earlier claim of his that it was from the kinetic sculpture sense of mobile (for the "unpredictable but limited" motion of the hanging ornaments).

Synonyms

movable afoot animate astir cursory dynamic in motion mobile moving on the move on the wing under sail unstill ambulatory kinetic motile motive vagile fluxive flowy fluent fluid free-flowing liquid runny thin watery excitable fickle changeable changeful changeling everchanging inconstant labile moody shiftable up-and-down unstable variable volatile wavering cell phone mob mobile object agent non-player character

Antonyms

fixed immobile immovable sessile stationary stabile inanimate

Related words

mobility mobilization mobilize move

Derived words

airmobile cellular mobile dorsomobile ground mobile force hypermobile hypomobile madware MASH mob mobile billboard mobilecasting mobile chicane mobile crane mobile data mobile elevated work platform mobile elevating work platform mobile game Mobilegeddon mobile genetic element mobile home mobile home park mobile library mobilelike mobileness mobile number mobile phase mobile phone mobile reporting mobile scanner picking mobile service mobile speed bump mobile station mobile telephone mobilette mobile virtual network operator mobile wad mobilism mobilist mobilome mobilopathy mobisode moblog mobot Muskmobile nonmobile retromobile semimobile s-mobile socially mobile ultramobile upwardly mobile mobile entity mobile object blingmobile mobile-first mobileless moby Mobile County Mobile terrapin

Translations

Arabic: مُنْتَقِل Arabic: مُتَنَقِّل Armenian: շարժական Armenian: շարժուն Azerbaijani: səyyar Azerbaijani: mobil Bashkir: мобиль Bulgarian: подвижен Bulgarian: мобилен Catalan: mòbil Chinese Mandarin: 可动的 Czech: mobilní Czech: pohyblivý Dutch: beweeglijk Dutch: mobiel Esperanto: movebla Finnish: liikkuva French: mobile Galician: móbil Georgian: მოძრავი Georgian: გადატანადი Georgian: მობილური German: beweglich German: mobil Greek: κινητός Ancient Greek: κινητικός Hebrew: נַיָּד Hindi: गतिमान Hindi: गतिशील Hungarian: mozgatható Hungarian: mozgó Hungarian: mobil Hungarian: mobilis Hungarian: hordozható Hungarian: szállítható Hungarian: kiemelhető Interlingua: mobile Italian: mobile Jamaican Creole: muobail Japanese: 可動 Kazakh: қозғалғыш Latin: mōbilis Latvian: mobils Lithuanian: mobilus Malay: mudah alih Malay: mudalih Norwegian: bevegelig Norwegian: mobil Persian: سیار Polish: przenośny Polish: mobilny Polish: ruchomy Portuguese: móvel Portuguese: movediço Romanian: mobil Russian: моби́льный Russian: подвижной Russian: передвижно́й Sanskrit: जङ्गम Slovak: mobilný Spanish: móvil Spanish: movible Swedish: flyttbar Swedish: mobil Swedish: rörlig Tagalog: gala Chinese Mandarin: 机动 Esperanto: mobilo Finnish: mobile German: Mobile Greek: μόμπιλ Greek: κρεμαστό διακοσμητικό Japanese: モビール Korean: 모빌 Māori: kaui Norwegian: uro Spanish: móvil Swedish: mobil Turkish: dekorasyon Welsh: symudyn
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