MOBILE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Mobile mean?
• MOBILE (noun)
The noun MOBILE has 3 senses:
1. a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
2. a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
3. sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
Familiarity information: MOBILE used as a noun is uncommon.
• MOBILE (adjective)
The adjective MOBILE has 5 senses:
1. moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
2. (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently
3. having transportation available
4. capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
5. affording change (especially in social status)
Familiarity information: MOBILE used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• MOBILE (noun)
Meaning:
A river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Mobile; Mobile River
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Mobile" is a part of...):
AL; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Meaning:
A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("Mobile" is a part of...):
AL; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie (a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Meaning:
Sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mobile" is a kind of...):
sculpture (a three-dimensional work of plastic art)
Antonym:
stabile (a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support)
• MOBILE (adjective)
Meaning:
Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
Context examples:
a mobile missile system / the tongue is...the most mobile articulator
Similar:
raisable; raiseable (capable of being raised)
rangy (adapted to wandering or roaming)
rotatable (capable of being rotated)
seaborne (conveyed by sea)
transplantable (capable of being transplanted)
versatile (able to move freely in all directions)
waterborne (transported by water)
racy (designed or suitable for competing in a race)
perambulating (strolling or walking around)
movable; moveable; transferable; transferrable; transportable (capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another)
airborne (moved or conveyed by or through air)
ambulant; ambulatory (able to walk about)
floating (inclined to move or be moved about)
flying (designed for swift movement or action)
maneuverable; manoeuvrable (capable of maneuvering or changing position)
mechanised; mechanized; motorized (using vehicles)
motile ((of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement)
Also:
moving (in motion)
Antonym:
immobile (not capable of movement or of being moved)
Meaning:
(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently
Synonyms:
nomadic; peregrine; roving; wandering; mobile
Context examples:
a restless mobile society / the nomadic habits of the Bedouins / believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future / wandering tribes
Similar:
unsettled (not settled or established)
Meaning:
Having transportation available
Similar:
moving (in motion)
Meaning:
Capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
Context example:
a highly mobile face
Similar:
changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)
Meaning:
Affording change (especially in social status)
Synonyms:
fluid; mobile
Context examples:
Britain is not a truly fluid society / upwardly mobile
Similar:
changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)
