MOBILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mobile mean? 

• MOBILE (noun)
  The noun MOBILE has 3 senses:

1. a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay

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

  Familiarity information: MOBILE used as a noun is uncommon.

• MOBILE (adjective)
  The adjective MOBILE has 5 senses:

1. migratory

2. moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)

3. having transportation available

4. capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another

5. affording change (especially in social status)

  Familiarity information: MOBILE used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOBILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mobile; Mobile River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Mobile" is a part of...):

AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Mobile" is a part of...):

AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mobile" is a kind of...):

sculpture (a three-dimensional work of plastic art)

Antonym:

stabile (a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support)

• MOBILE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Migratory

Synonyms:

mobile; nomadic; peregrine; roving; wandering

Context example:

wandering tribes

Similar:

unsettled (not settled or established)

Derivation:

mobility (the quality of moving freely)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)

Context example:

the tongue is...the most mobile articulator

Similar:

motile ((of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement)

waterborne (transported by water)

versatile (able to move freely in all directions)

transplantable (capable of being transplanted)

seaborne (conveyed by sea)

rotatable (capable of being rotated)

rangy (adapted to wandering or roaming)

raisable; raiseable (capable of being raised)

racy (designed or suitable for competing in a race)

perambulating (strolling or walking around)

movable; moveable; transferable; transferrable; transportable (capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another)

mechanised; mechanized; motorized (using vehicles)

maneuverable; manoeuvrable (capable of maneuvering or changing position)

floating (inclined to move or be moved about)

ambulant; ambulatory (able to walk about)

airborne (moved or conveyed by or through air)

Also:

moving (in motion)

Antonym:

immobile (not capable of movement or of being moved)

Derivation:

mobility (the quality of moving freely)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having transportation available

Similar:

moving (in motion)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another

Context example:

a highly mobile face

Similar:

changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Affording change (especially in social status)

Synonyms:

fluid; mobile

Context example:

upwardly mobile

Similar:

changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)

 Context examples 

Cycles of transcription and reverse transcription make the elements mobile and mutagenic.

(Endogenous Retrovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

There are 3 mobile phone operators and one radio antenna, an FM radio, so modulated frequencies.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

It involves stationary and mobile phases.

(Column Chromatography, NCI Thesaurus)

It presents as a painless, solitary, slow growing, firm, and mobile mass.

(Fibroadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

For two weeks, a special mobile phone app, called Paco, randomly prompted the participants eight times a day to answer questions about their current activity and states of mind.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They adapted to extreme environments very quickly, and were highly mobile.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

In the quest to bring technologies closer to the end-user, one particular tool that is increasingly being used for wider purposes than those originally conceived is the mobile phone.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

Mobile communications system that uses a combination of radio wave transmission and conventional telephone switching to permit telephone communication to and from mobile users within a specified area.

(Mobile Telephone, NCI Thesaurus)

The dark mobile face of the artist shone with pleasure at the unaffected delight of the two young Englishmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

(Cellular Telephone, NCI Thesaurus)