mobile
adjective
- movable
noun
- kinetic sculpture
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊ.baɪl/ / /ˈmoʊ.bəl/ / /ˈmoʊ.bil/ / /moʊˈbiːl/ / /ˈmoʊbiːl/ / /məʊˈbiːl/
adj
Etymology: 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).
- Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
“a mobile home”
- Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
“mobile number”
“mobile internet”
- Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
“Mercury is a mobile liquid.”
- Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
“the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition”
- Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
“mobile features”
“His finely cut features were capable of every variety of expression; they were, to use a French epithet, expressive as their epithets for all social qualities usually are, mobile in the extreme.”
- Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
name
Etymology: From the name of (Mobile Bay, from the name of) the Mobile tribe, perhaps from the name of a Native town somewhere in what is now central Alabama, various spelled Mabila or Maubila.
- A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.
“Oh, Mama / Is this really the end? / To be stuck here inside of Mobile / With the Memphis blues again”
noun
Etymology: 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).
- A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
- Ellipsis of mobile phone.
“Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run”
“Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet.”
- 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.”
- One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
“[…] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles". […] We concentrated on a mobile teenager population that had good public transportation or automobile access and a[…]”
“Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.”
- An object capable of moving under its own power.
- A creature or NPC that can navigate and interact with the game world (now often shortened to mob).
“MUD has a type of character called a mobile. These are monsters controlled by the program such as the Dragon and the Vampire. To kill these a band of adventurers need to hunt down the creature hurling a combined strength to vanquish it.”
“Even mundane mobiles are very advanced. They incorporate other expert systems that enable them to fight (often better than the players); […]”