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adjective

Mobile adj.

Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile."

Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.

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; as, mobile features.

(Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force.

Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.

noun

Mobile n. The mob; the populace. (Obs.) "The unthinking mobile."

Mobile n. A form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air.

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"Mobile" Quotes from Famous Books

... just been massacred in cold blood, and in defiance of every law of warfare and humanity; and between the Anglo-Americans and a brutal, slaughtering army there was only Houston and a few hundred desperate men. The New Orleans Greys and a company of young Southern gentlemen from Mobile had just sailed. Every man's heart was on fire for this young republic of Texas. Her shield was scarcely one month old, and yet it had been bathed in the blood of a thousand martyrs for freedom, and riddled with the bullets ...

— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr

... things that agitate a mind anxious and mobile, selfish and passionate, desirous to surrender itself, prompt in disengaging itself, liking itself most of all among the beautiful things that it finds ...

— The Red Lily, Complete • Anatole France

... includes Charleston, S.C., there are two thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine church-members, and of these one thousand six hundred-and thirty-seven, more than one half, are colored. In State Street, Mobile, there is a colored Methodist Church who pay their minister, from their own money, twelve hundred dollars a year. Not long since they took up a voluntary contribution for Home Missions, amounting to one hundred and twenty dollars. Their preacher was sent by the Conference, according to ...

— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams

... tell, till you have tried, that there is no corresponding strength?" asked Gerald, turning full upon him again. How marvellously expressive her face was, with its earnest eyes and mobile mouth! "If I were a man,—and great heavens! how I wish I were one!—I would create the strength if it were not there of itself. I would force myself upward. I would never rest till I had become something more than nature originally ...

— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield

... clearly 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

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