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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"
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.



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"Mobile" Quotes from Famous Books



... was already started on the shortest route to the Tugela. I went on, and for about a mile no sign whatever of the enemy, and I thought of the theory more than once put forward that we were all the time being besieged by a ridiculously small but extremely mobile force. It was not until I was well in between Bulwana and Lombard's Kop that I caught sight between the trees of a laager of miscellaneous tents on the lower slope of the latter. Dismounting and going cautiously, ...
— Impressions of a War Correspondent • George Lynch
... in whose face geniality and humor seemed the salient characteristics. It was a mobile face, quick-changing to inward mood and thought. Thinking was in him a visible process. Ideas chased across his face like wind-flaws across the surface of a lake. His hair, sparse and unkempt of growth, was as indeterminate and ...
— Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories - Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews • Jack London
... blood beating softly under the golden brown of her cheeks, one of the thick braids of her heavy, blue-black hair falling across the breast that rose and fell a little fast, she was no less than a challenge of Nature to him. He looked into a mobile face as daring and as passionate as his own, warm with the life of innocent youth, and the dark blood mantled ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine
... see that the mistake is to judge boys by the standard of grown-ups, to forget that a child is quick and mobile like a running stream; and that, in the case of such, any touch of imperfection need cause no great alarm, for the speed of the flow is itself the best corrective. When stagnation sets in then comes ...
— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore
... right moment, the fog lifted. The gun was quickly laid on the wagon train and fired, the first shot beheading a mule. The second shell hit the best sort of target imaginable—a mobile farrier's forge. There was a deadly shower of horseshoes, hand-tools and assorted ironmongery, inflicting casualties and causing a local panic. The third shell landed among some cavalry who were galloping up, scattering them, and, on the signal, ...
— Rebel Raider • H. Beam Piper


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