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Mobile   /mˈoʊbəl/   Listen
adjective
Mobile  adj.  
1.
Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile."
2.
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.
3.
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. "The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition."
4.
Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
5.
(Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
6.
Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force.
7.
Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.



noun
Mobile  n.  The mob; the populace. (Obs.) "The unthinking mobile."



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.






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"Mobile" Quotes from Famous Books



... protege prove a boor, he knew well he should never find a place for himself again. But Vladimir had spent many an evening at the opera with Ivan; and had studied well the expressions that Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, even Flotow, at his best, could bring out upon his companion's mobile face. And her Royal Highness was well known to reward the discoverer of any new man of ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

... Further, it is said of Wisdom, that "it is more mobile than all things active [Vulg. 'mobilior']" (Wis. 7:24). But God is wisdom itself; therefore ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... "A thin, mobile face, you see, and plenty of experience in the art of making up. It is astonishing what one can ...
— Peter Ruff and the Double Four • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... most of the true Malays. The hair of his head is more abundant and longer than that of other peoples. His figure is well proportioned, neat, and generally somewhat boyish. His expression is bright and mobile, his lips and teeth are generally distorted and discoloured by the constant chewing of betel nut. They are a vain, dressy, boastful, excitable, not to say frivolous people — cheerful, talkative, sociable, fond of fun ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall

... War Lyrics were published respectively in 1864 and 1866, was private secretary to Farragut, on whose flag-ship, the Hartford, he was present at several great naval engagements, such as the "Passage of the Forts" below New Orleans, and the action off Mobile, described in his poem, the Bay Fight. With some roughness and unevenness of execution Brownell's poetry had a fire which places him next to Whittier as the Koerner of the civil war. In him, especially, as in Whittier, is that Puritan sense ...
— Initial Studies in American Letters • Henry A. Beers


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