mobile
pronunciation
How to pronounce mobile in British English:
UK [ˈməʊbaɪl]
How to pronounce mobile in American English:
US [ˈmoʊbl]
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- Noun:
- sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
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- Adjective:
- moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
- (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently
- having transportation available
- capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
- affording change (especially in social status)
Word Origin
- mobile (adj.)
- late 15c., from Middle French mobile (14c.), from Latin mobilis "movable, easy to move; loose, not firm," figuratively, "pliable, flexible, susceptible, nimble, quick; changeable, inconstant, fickle," contraction of *movibilis, from movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Sociology sense from 1927. Mobile home first recorded 1940.
- Mobile
- city in Alabama, U.S., attested c. 1540 in Spanish as Mauvila, referring to an Indian group and perhaps from Choctaw (Muskogean) moeli "to paddle." Related: Mobilian.
- mobile (n.)
- early 15c. in astronomy, "outer sphere of the universe," from mobile (adj.); the artistic sense is first recorded 1949 as a shortening of mobile sculpture (1936). Now-obsolete sense of "the common people, the rabble" (1670s) led to mob (n.).
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Example
- 1. Yes , people use mobile devices to window shop .
- 2. Verizon jetpack mobile hotspot , $ 270
- 3. Google 's mobile future is now [ techcrunch ]
- 4. • 2010 Quattro ( mobile advertising ) .
- 5. Mobile retail is also a growing focus .