mobile

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊbaɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊbəl/, /ˈmoʊbil/, /ˈmoʊbaɪl/
  • (sculpture always) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊbil/
    • Homophone: Mobile
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /moˈbajl/

Adjective

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

   Synonyms: movable; see also Thesaurus:in motion, Thesaurus:movable

   Antonyms: fixed, immobile, immovable, sessile, stationary

2. Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
3. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.

   Synonyms: fluxive; see also Thesaurus:runny

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

   Synonyms: excitable, fickle; see also Thesaurus:changeable
5. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
6. (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

   Synonym: motile

   Antonym: sessile

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

mobile (plural mobiles)

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

   Antonym: stabile

4. (telephony, UK, Ireland) Ellipsis of mobile phone.

   Synonym: cell phone
6. (uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.

7. One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
8. (video games) Synonym of mob (“non-player character”)

Derived terms

• mobile-first

Descendants

• → Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)
• → Kurtöp: མོ་བ་འིལ (mobail)
• → Persian: موبایل (mobâil)

Translations

Related terms

Further reading

• “mobile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mobile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “mobile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• mobile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mobile phone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mobile (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bemoil, emboil, emboli

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmobɪlɛ]

Noun

mobile

1. vocative singular of mobil

Danish

Adjective

mobile

1. definite of mobil
2. plural of mobil

Finnish

Etymology

< English mobile

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmobile/, [ˈmo̞bile̞] (nalle-type declension)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmobileˣ/, [ˈmo̞bile̞(ʔ)] (hame-type declension)
• Rhymes: -obile
• Hyphenation^(key): mo‧bi‧le

Noun

mobile

1. mobile (kinetic sculpture)

Declension

Further reading

• “mobile”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mōbilis. Doublet of meuble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.bil/

Adjective

mobile (plural mobiles)

1. mobile
2. moving
3. movable

Antonyms

• immobile

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Turkish: mobil

Noun

mobile m (plural mobiles)

1. (physics) moving body
2. mobile (decoration)
3. motive (for an action, for a crime)
4. mobile phone; Ellipsis of téléphone mobile.

   Synonyms: cell, téléphone cellulaire, cellulaire, téléphone mobile, téléphone portable, portable

Further reading

• “mobile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

mobile

1. inflection of mobil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin mōbilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.bi.le/
• Rhymes: -ɔbile
• Hyphenation: mò‧bi‧le

Adjective

mobile (plural mobili, superlative mobilissimo)

1. movable, mobile

   Antonym: immobile

2. moving

Derived terms

• mobilmente

Noun

mobile m (plural mobili)

1. (in the singular) piece of furniture (item of furniture)
2. (in the plural) furniture

   Synonyms: mobilia, mobilio, arredamento

3. (heraldry) charge
4. mobile (cellular phone)

   Synonyms: cellulare, telefonino

   Antonym: fisso

Related terms

Further reading

• mobile in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• mobile in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• mobile in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• mòbile¹ in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

• emboli

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.bi.le/, [ˈmoːbɪɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.bi.le/, [ˈmɔːbile]

Adjective

mōbile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of mōbilis

References

• "mobile", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

mobile

1. definite singular of mobil
2. plural of mobil

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

mobile

1. definite singular of mobil
2. plural of mobil

Portuguese

Verb

mobile

1. inflection of mobilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Noun

mobile

1. plural of mobilă

Swedish

Adjective

mobile

1. definite natural masculine singular of mobil