Dictionary Definition
mobile adj
1 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]
Noun
1 a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into
Mobile Bay [syn: Mobile
River]
2 a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile
Bay
3 sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately
balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents [ant: stabile]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
mobilisDerived terms
Translations
Capable of being moved
- Arabic: (muntaqil), (mutanaqqil)
- Dutch: beweeglijk, mobiel
- French: mobile
- German: beweglich, mobil
- Greek: κινητός , ευμετακίνητος
- Interlingua: mobile
- Italian: mobile
- Japanese: 可動(かどう, kadou)
- Latin: mobilis -is
- Lithuanian: mobilus , mobili , mobilu
- Norwegian: bevegelig, mobil
- Portuguese: móvel &
- Romanian: mobil
- Russian: мобильный, подвижной, передвижной
- Spanish: móvil
- Volapük: golovik, vabovik
Pronunciation 2
Noun
- A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
- A mobile phone.
Translations
decoration
- Finnish: mobile
- French: mobile
- German: Mobile
- Norwegian: uro
mobile phone
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
mobile , (plural: mobiles)Derived terms
Noun
fr-noun m- moving body
- mobile (decoration)
- motive (for an action, for a crime)
- mobile phone
Italian
Antonyms
Noun
- (singular) item of furniture
- (plural) furniture
- mobile (cellular phone)
Synonyms
- (2) mobilia, mobilio, arredamento
- (3) cellulare, telefonino
Antonyms
- (2) fisso
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Mobile usually refers to:
- A mobile phone, a portable communications device
- A mobile (sculpture), a hanging artwork (or toy)
- Mobility (disambiguation), the ability to move or be moved
Mobile may also refer to:
Technology
- Mobile computing, a generic term describing one's ability to use technology in mobile environments
- Mobile game, a video game played on a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA or handheld computer
- Mobile Magazine, a publication on portable electronics
- Mobile radio, wireless communications systems and devices which are based on radio frequencies
- Mobile rig
- Mobile station, user equipment and software needed for communication with a wireless telephone network
- Mobile Web, the World Wide Web as accessed from mobile devices using Mobile Web Browser
- Mobile TV, TV services viewed via a mobile device.
Places
- Mobile, Alabama, a U.S. port city
- Mobile Bay, near Mobile, Alabama
- Mobile County, Alabama
- The Mobile River in Alabama
- University of Mobile, a private university located in Mobile County, Alabama
- Mobile, Arizona, a small town near Phoenix, U.S.
- Mobile, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Mobile, Columbia
Entertainment
- Mobile Entertainment Forum, the global voice of mobile entertainment companies
- Mobile (band), a group of Canadian rock musicians
- Mobile (song), a song by Avril Lavigne from her album Let Go (Avril Lavigne album)
- Mobile (TV series), a British ITV drama
- A Mob (computer gaming), a type of non-player character
- Mobile (GunBound), constructs in the turn-based Internet game
- Mobile weapons, fictional weapon systems from the Gundam'' anime metaseries
Other
- Mobile tribe, a Native American tribe
- Mobile Company of America, early maker of steam cars
See also
- Mobil, a major oil company
- Mobilivre, a travelling library
- Mobile home
- Mobile office
mobile in Danish: Mobil
mobile in German: Mobile
mobile in Spanish: Mobile
mobile in French: Mobile
mobile in Korean: 모바일
mobile in Italian: Mobile
mobile in Dutch: Mobile
mobile in Japanese: モービル
mobile in Norwegian: Mobil
mobile in Portuguese: Mobile
mobile in Chinese: 莫比尔
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
able to adapt, active, adaptable, adjustable, agile, alert, all-around, alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, ambulant, ambulatory, animated, art object, brainchild, bric-a-brac,
bronze, capricious, cast, changeable, changeful, checkered, classic, composition, creation, design, driving, ever-changing, expressive, facile, fickle, flexible, fluid, grotesque, impelling, impermanent, in motion,
inconstant, kaleidoscopic, kitsch, liquid, malleable, many-sided,
marble, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mechanical, mercurial, metamorphic, migrant, modifiable, motile, motivational, motive, motor, motorized, movable, moving, museum piece, mutable, nimble, nonuniform, nude, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, permutable, piece, piece of virtu, plastic, portable, propellant, propelling, protean, proteiform, quick, resilient, responsive, rubbery, sculpture, sensitive, stabile, statue, still life, stirring, study, supple, terra cotta, transient, transitional, transitory, transmigratory, transportable, traveling, unfixed, unsettled, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, variable, versatile, virtu, work, work of art