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mobile

adjective

  1. movable
L1379 on Wikidata ↗

noun

  1. kinetic sculpture
L37461 on Wikidata ↗

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).

  1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

    a mobile home

  2. Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

    mobile number

    mobile internet

  3. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.

    Mercury is a mobile liquid.

  4. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

    the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  1. 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).

  1. A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. An object capable of moving under its own power.
  6. 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); […]