Meaning

5 senses
  1. A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.

  2. (Internet, uncountable)The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices.

    There are many business opportunities in mobile.

    The bug affects mobile, but not desktop.

  3. One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).

  4. An object capable of moving under its own power.

  5. (broadly, dated)A creature or NPC that can navigate and interact with the game world (now often shortened to mob).

More definitions
  • sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
  • a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
  • a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay

Examples

387 sentences
  1. Tom called me on my mobile.

    Том зателефонував мені на мобільний. — deniko

    ruТом позвонил мне на мобильный. — marafon

  2. I'm calling from my mobile.

    Я телефоную з мобільного. — deniko

    ruЯ звоню с мобильного. — marafon

  3. I'm looking for my mobile phone.

    ruЯ ищу свой мобильный телефон. — mrtaistoi

    deIch suche mein Mobiltelefon. — Esperantostern

  4. Tom pulled out his mobile phone.

    ruТом достал мобильный. — marafon

  5. Do mobile phones give off radiation?

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
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Origin

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), f

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”). The video-gaming sense was coined by Richard Bartle to describe NPCs or creatures capable of moving "under their own power" in the 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon. Bartle retracted an earlier claim of his that it was from the kinetic sculpture sense of mobile (for the "unpredictable but limited" motion of the hanging ornaments).

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Forms

plural: mobiles
Singularmobile

uncountable

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay:Mobile River

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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