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Mobile   /mˈoʊbəl/   Listen
Mobile

adjective
1.
Migratory.  Synonyms: nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering.  "The nomadic habits of the Bedouins" , "Believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future" , "Wandering tribes"
2.
Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place).  "The tongue is...the most mobile articulator"  Antonym: immobile.
3.
Having transportation available.
4.
Capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another.
5.
Affording change (especially in social status).  Synonym: fluid.  "Upwardly mobile"
noun
1.
A river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay.  Synonym: 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.  Antonym: stabile.



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"Mobile" Quotes from Famous Books



... the troops in motor trucks from stations where the supplies are delivered by rail and soups and sturdy meals are prepared which were lacking in the campaigns through which the soldiers of the Civil War passed. The pioneer mobile military field kitchen which has been the subject of widespread comment was developed by the ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller
... Mobile, alone remain of all the rebel ports, but it is with the first we have to do—where it is, how it ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various
... one that painters coveted deep down in their artistic souls. It never knew a dull instant; there was expression in every lineament, in every look; life, genuine life, dwelt in the mobile countenance that turned the head of every man and woman who looked upon it. Her hair was dark-brown and abundant; her eyes were a deep gray and looked eagerly from between long lashes of black; her lips were red and ever willing to smile or turn plaintive as occasion required; her brow ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... reflections lightened de Spain's burden of discontent. One thought alone possessed him—Nan; her comely body, which he worshipped to the tips of her graceful fingers; her alert mind, which he saw reflected in the simplest thought she expressed; her mobile lips, which he followed to the least sound they gave forth! The longer he pictured her, figured as she had appeared to him like a phantom on Music Mountain, the more he longed to be back at the foot of it, wounded again and famished. ...
— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman
... a little pointed; he stood with his shoulders well thrown back and with a lateral curve of his person when he talked about art, which would alone have carried conviction even if he had not had a thick, dark bang coming almost to the brows of his mobile gray eyes, and had not spoken English with quick, staccato impulses, so as to give it the effect of epigrammatic and sententious French. One of the ladies said that you always thought of him as having spoken French after it was over, and accused herself of wrong in not being ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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