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Definition of mobile
1 : capable of moving or being moved : movable a mobile missile launcher a mobile laboratory
2a : changeable in appearance, mood, or purpose mobile faceb : adaptable, versatile an organization mobile enough to be able to cope with any emergency
3 : migratory a mobile society of nomadic herders
4a : characterized by the mixing of social groups the general confusion in moral standards which characterizes mobile societies — E. R. Mowrerb : having the opportunity for or undergoing a shift in status within the levels of a society socially mobile workers
5 : marked by the use of vehicles for transportation mobile warfare
6 : of or relating to a mobile A mobile art work hung from the ceiling.
7 : cellular 3 a mobile phone
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Examples of mobile in a Sentence
Their armies are now fully mobile.
a mobile kitchen that helps bring food to homeless people
Recent Examples of mobile from the Web
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To give people the opportunity to do something other than be on a mobile device and have great interactions.
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The state will issue permits for the sale of fireworks from a modular trailer or mobile building but the structure has to be 8 feet or more in height and 32 feet or more feet in length.
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As the internet has migrated to mobile phones, Google has compensated for the smaller screen space by filling it with so many ads that users can have a hard time finding a result that hasn’t been paid for.
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If a proposal by the Aviation Department introduced Wednesday is approved by the City Council, mobile food vendors will pay $200 a year to operate at the airports.
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Small self-driving cars will act as mobile surveillance units for the Dubai police by the end of the year.
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In fact, AOL already struck a deal with Telefonica’s O2 in the U.K. earlier this year, giving Oath access to 16 million opted-in mobile subscribers.
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The home was destroyed, and two nearby mobile homes sustained heat damage, with total damage estimated at $150,000.
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Starling offers checking accounts via mobile phones and enables rival lenders and financial technology companies to market services to its clients.
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Origin and Etymology of mobile
Middle English mobyll, from Anglo-French moble, from Latin mobilis, from movēre to move
Definition of mobile
1 : a construction or sculpture frequently of wire and sheet metal shapes with parts that can be set in motion by air currents; also : a similar structure (as of paper or plastic) suspended so that it moves in a current of air
2 British : cell phone, mobile phone
Examples of mobile in a Sentence
They hung a mobile over the baby's bed.
Even if I'm out of the office you can reach me on my mobile.
Recent Examples of mobile from the Web
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But the mobile ordering is perhaps the most critical update.
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Our fully responsive site offers timely content, keeping Chicagoans in the know across all devices, which are accessible via web, mobile, and tablet.
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The mobile classrooms needed to meet the uptick in student enrollment at Windsor Elementary School in Arlington Heights will soon be replaced by a $9.8 million building expansion.
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Internet and mobile services were suspended in the region and a curfew was imposed as buses and trucks were set ablaze, and toll booths along roads were looted.
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Yahoo has poured billions into acquisitions that have helped Yahoo make some leeway in mobile — but not enough.
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In many ways, the Netflix revolution in TV has created the perfect conditions for Facebook and Google’s extraordinary growth in mobile.
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Mobile lost 2,207 people or 1.13 percent of its population, since the 2010 Census.
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Origin and Etymology of mobile
see 1mobile
Mobile
playDefinition of Mobile
1 river 38 miles (61 kilometers) long in southwestern Alabama formed by the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers and flowing south into Mobile Bay (an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico)
2 city and port at the point where the Mobile River enters Mobile Bay in southwestern Alabama population 195,111
-mobile
Definition of -mobile
1 : motorized vehicle snowmobile
2 : automotive vehicle bringing services to the public bloodmobile bookmobile
Origin and Etymology of -mobile
automobile
MOBILE Defined for English Language Learners
mobile
playDefinition of mobile for English Language Learners
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: able to move from one place to another
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: able to move with the use of vehicles (such as trucks and airplanes)
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: able to be moved
mobile
playDefinition of mobile for English Language Learners
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: a work of art or a decoration that is hung from above and that has attached shapes or figures that move easily in the air
Mobile
playDefinition of Mobile for English Language Learners
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: U.S. city, Alabama
MOBILE Defined for Kids
Definition of mobile for Students
: an artistic structure whose parts can be moved especially by air currents
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of mobile
1: capable of moving or being moved about readily globular proteins that are mobile and rod-shaped proteins that form solid structures the tongue…is clearly the most mobile articulator—G. A. Miller
2: characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity ether and mercury are mobile liquids
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