MOTILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motile mean? 

• MOTILE (noun)
  The noun MOTILE has 1 sense:

1. one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action

  Familiarity information: MOTILE used as a noun is very rare.

• MOTILE (adjective)
  The adjective MOTILE has 1 sense:

1. (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement

  Familiarity information: MOTILE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)

Derivation:

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

• MOTILE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement

Similar:

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

Domain category:

micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)

Derivation:

motile (one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action)

motility (ability to move spontaneously and independently)

 Context examples 

This bacteria is non-motile, tyrosine arylamidase positive and arginine dihydrolase negative.

(Atopobium parvulum, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, spore forming, catalase positive, oxidase positive, does not reduce nitrate, indole positive, and hydrolyzes casein, esculin, gelatin, and starch.

(Bacillus alvei, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is oxidase positive, catalase variable, motile by one or more polar flagella, non spore forming and reduces nitrate.

(Arcobacter butzleri, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is non-motile, non spore forming, catalase negative, does not hydrolyze esculin or urea and ferments glycogen, erythritol and ribose.

(Arcanobacterium bernardiae, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is motile by flagella and mediates the horizontal gene transfer of its Ti plasmid to infect plants.

(Agrobacterium tumefaciens, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, spore forming, catalase positive, urease positive, indole negative, produces hydrogen sulfide, reduces nitrate, and hydrolyzes starch and esculin but not casein or gelatin.

(Bacillus lentus, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, spore forming, catalase positive, reduces nitrate, and hydrolyzes casein, gelatin, starch and esculin.

(Bacillus licheniformis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is non-motile, spore forming, oxidase, urease and catalase negative, indole positive and hydrolyzes esculin.

(Bacteroides faecis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is non-motile, oxidase, catalase, indole, and urease negative and is nonhemolytic.

(Bartonella henselae, NCI Thesaurus)

This specis is non-spore forming, non-motile, does not hydrolyze esculin, is indole negative and nitrate is not reduced.

(Bacteroides dorei, NCI Thesaurus)