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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mobile \Mo"bile\ (m[=o]"b[i^]l; L. m[o^]b"[i^]*l[=e]), noun [L. mobile vulgus. See {Mobile}, adjective, and cf. 3d {Mob}.] The mob; the populace. [Obs.] ''The unthinking mobile.'' --South.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mobile \Mo"bile\, adjective [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to move: cf. F. mobile. See {Move}.]
1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. ''Fixed or else mobile.'' --Skelton.
2. 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.
3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. --Testament of Love.
The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. --Hawthorne.
4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
6. Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force. [PJC]
7. Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mobile \Mo"bile\ (m[=o]"b[=e]l'), noun 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mobile
adjective
1: moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator" [ant: {immobile}]
2: (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes" [syn: {nomadic}, {peregrine}, {roving}, {wandering}]
3: having transportation available
4: capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face"
5: affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: {fluid}]
noun
1: a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay [syn: {Mobile River}]
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 [ant: {stabile}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "mobile": able to adapt, active, adaptable, adjustable, agile, alert, all-around, alterable, alterative, ambidextrous, ambulant, ambulatory, animated, art object, brainchild, bric-a-brac, bronze, capricious, cast, changeable, changeful, checkered, classic, composition, creation, design, driving, ever-changing, expressive, facile, fickle, flexible, fluid, grotesque, impelling, impermanent, in motion, inconstant, kaleidoscopic, kitsch, liquid, malleable, many-sided, marble, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mechanical, mercurial, metamorphic, migrant, modifiable, motile, motivational, motive, motor, motorized, movable, moving, museum piece, mutable, nimble, nonuniform, nude, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, permutable, piece, piece of virtu, plastic, portable, propellant, propelling, protean, proteiform, quick, resilient, responsive, rubbery, sculpture, sensitive, stabile, statue, still life, stirring, study, supple, terra cotta, transient, transitional, transitory, transmigratory, transportable, traveling, unfixed, unsettled, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, variable, versatile, virtu, work, work of art
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Mobile, AL (city, FIPS 50000) Location: 30.67745 N, 88.08896 W Population (1990): 196278 (82817 housing units) Area: 305.7 sq km (land), 100.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 36602, 36603, 36604, 36605, 36606, 36607, 36608, 36609, 36612, 36617, 36618, 36619, 36693, 36695 Mobile, AZ Zip code(s): 85239
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Mobile, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama Population (2000): 198915 Housing Units (2000): 86187 Land area (2000): 117.903061 sq. miles (305.367514 sq. km) Water area (2000): 41.531877 sq. miles (107.567062 sq. km) Total area (2000): 159.434938 sq. miles (412.934576 sq. km) FIPS code: 50000 Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01 Location: 30.679523 N, 88.103280 W ZIP Codes (1990): 36602 36603 36604 36605 36606 36607 36608 36609 36612 36617 36618 36619 36693 36695 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Mobile, AL Mobile
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Mobile -- U.S. County in Alabama Population (2000): 399843 Housing Units (2000): 165101 Land area (2000): 1233.090896 sq. miles (3193.690623 sq. km) Water area (2000): 410.931906 sq. miles (1064.308706 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1644.022802 sq. miles (4257.999329 sq. km) Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01 Location: 30.722256 N, 88.139667 W Headwords: Mobile Mobile, AL Mobile County Mobile County, AL
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