mobile
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mobile /ˈməʊbʌɪl/
▶adjective able to move or be moved freely or easily.
■ (of a shop, library, etc.) accommodated in a vehicle so as to travel around.
■ able or willing to move between occupations, places of residence, or social classes.
▶noun- 1 a decorative structure suspended so as to turn freely in the air.
- 2 a mobile phone.
– phrases
upwardly (or downwardly) mobile moving to a higher (or lower) social class.
upwardly (or downwardly) mobile moving to a higher (or lower) social class.
– derivatives
mobility noun.
mobility noun.
– origin C15 (earlier (ME) as mobility): via Fr. from L. mobilis, from movere ‘to move’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-mobile /məˈbiːl/
▶suffix forming nouns denoting vehicles of a particular type: snowmobile.
– origin from automobile.
'mobile' also found in these Oxford entries:
airtime
- ambulance
- ambulatory
- Bluetooth
- bookmobile
- camera phone
- car phone
- cell
- cellphone
- cellular
- cellular phone
- citizen journalism
- clamshell
- clone
- constructivism
- dead zone
- double-wide
- elephant shrew
- enable
- exciton
- fascia
- field
- flash mob
- GPRS
- GSM
- handy
- hole
- IMEI
- i-mode
- m-
- macrophage
- m-commerce
- MMS
- mob
- mobe
- -mobile
- mobile home
- mobile phone
- mobilize
- moblog
- motile
- oogamous
- PCS
- perpetuum mobile
- picture messaging
- primum mobile
- proboscis
- rechipping
- ringtone
