mobile

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: mo=bile

CIDE DICTIONARY

mobile, a. [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to move: cf. F. mobile. See Move.].

•  Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.  Skelton.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.  Testament of Love.  [1913 Webster]

  "The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition."  [1913 Webster]
•  Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.  [1913 Webster]
•  Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.  [1913 Webster]
•  Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force.  [PJC]
•  Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.  [PJC]

mobile, n. [L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf. 3d Mob.].

 The mob; the populace.  South.  [1913 Webster]

mobile, 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mobile, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 movable; not fixed; free or able to move or flow easily.
2 (of the face etc.) readily changing its expression.
3 (of a shop, library, etc.) accommodated in a vehicle so as to serve various places.
4 (of a person) able to change his or her social status.
--n. a decorative structure that may be hung so as to turn freely.

Idiom

mobile home a large caravan permanently parked and used as a residence. mobile sculpture a sculpture having moving parts.

Derivative

mobility n.

Etymology

ME f. F f. L mobilis f. movere move

THESAURUS

mobile

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

ROGET THESAURUS

mobile

Changeableness

N changeableness, mutability, inconstancy, versatility, mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium, vacillation, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, restlessness, fidgets, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers, wheel of Fortune, transientness, changeable, changeful, changing, mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing, protean, proteiform, versatile, unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled, fluctuating, restless, agitated, erratic, fickle, irresolute, capricious, touch and go, inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, alterable, plastic, mobile, transient, wavering, seesaw, off and on, a rolling stone gathers no moss, pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina.

Sensibility

N sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, moral sensibility, impressibility, affectibility, susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity, mobility, vivacity, vivaciousness, tenderness, softness, sentimental, sentimentality, sentimentalism, excitability, fastidiousness, physical sensibility, sore point, sore place, where the shoe pinches, sensible, sensitive, impressible, impressionable, susceptive, susceptible, alive to, impassionable, gushing, warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, sentimental, romantic, enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive, excitable, oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned, fastidious, sensibly, to the quick, to the inmost core, mens aequa in arduis, pour salt in the wound.

Motion

N motion, movement, move, going, unrest, stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir, evolution, kinematics, telekinesis, step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity, clip, progress, locomotion, journey, voyage, transit, restlessness, mobility, movableness, motive power, laws of motion, mobilization, moving, in motion, transitional, motory, motive, shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet, restless, nomadic, erratic, under way, on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march, eppur si muove, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.