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What (who) is mobile - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Mobiles; Mobile (disambiguation)
mobile
(mobiles)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
You use mobile to describe something large that can be moved easily from place to place.
...the four hundred seat mobile theatre.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
If you are mobile, you can move or travel easily from place to place, for example because you are not physically disabled or because you have your own transport.
I'm still very mobile.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
• mobility
Two cars gave them the freedom and mobility to go their separate ways.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
In a mobile society, people move easily from one job, home, or social class to another.
We're a very mobile society, and people move after they get divorced.
...young, mobile professionals.
ADJ
• mobility
Prior to the nineteenth century, there were almost no channels of social mobility.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
A mobile is a decoration which you hang from a ceiling. It usually consists of several small objects which move as the air around them moves.
N-COUNT
5.
N-COUNT
6.
see also upwardly mobile
mobile
['m??b??l]
¦ adjective able to move or be moved freely or easily.
?(of a shop, library, etc.) accommodated in a vehicle so as to travel around.
?able or willing to move between occupations, places of residence, or social classes.
¦ noun
1. a decorative structure suspended so as to turn freely in the air.
2. a mobile phone.
Phrases
upwardly (or downwardly) mobile moving to a higher (or lower) social class.
Derivatives
mobility noun
Origin
C15 (earlier (ME) as mobility): via Fr. from L. mobilis, from movere 'to move'.
Mobile
·adj The mob; the populace.
II. Mobile ·adj Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
III. Mobile ·adj Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
IV. Mobile ·adj Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
V. Mobile ·adj Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
VI. Mobile ·adj 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.
Examples of use of mobile
1. Under the new facility, calls from mobile–to–mobile and fixed–to–mobile has become local.
2. He writes: "Everything is mobile – water is mobile – air is mobile – time is relentless.
3. The mobile major is also accelerating mobile TV adoption.
4. Other mobile phone companies including Vodafone, O2 and T–Mobile are looking at bundling broadband and mobile services, while NTL recently bought Virgin Mobile for its quad–play of mobile, broadband, fixed–line telephony and TV.
5. Virgin Mobile BT Ericsson Motorola Nokia Siemens Mobile phone masts Mast Sanity Radiocommunications agency guide to base station sitings Links on mobile phone health concerns World Health Organisation mobile phone health site Independent expert group on mobile phones (the Stewart report) Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme