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mobile¹

  • /ˈməʊ.baɪl/ UK
  • /ˈmoʊ.bəl/ US
  • /ˈmoʊ.bil/ US
  • /ˈmoʊ.baɪl/ US
  • /ˈmoʊ.bil/
  • /ˈmoʊ.baɪl/ Canada
  • /ˈməʉ.bɑel/ Australia
  • [ˈmɐʉ.bɑe̯l] New Zealand

Sounds like Mobile

Where it comes from

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”). The video-gaming sense was coined by Richard Bartle to describe NPCs or creatures capable of moving "under their own power" in the 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon. Bartle retracted an earlier claim of his that it was from the kinetic sculpture sense of mobile (for the "unpredictable but limited" motion of the hanging ornaments).

adjective more mobile · most mobile

  1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels. mobile home; mobile library
  2. Able to move freely or easily. She's mobile again after her skiing accident.
  3. Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones. mobile number
  4. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom. Mercury is a mobile liquid.
  5. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
  6. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind. mobile features
  7. Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

noun mobiles

  1. A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
  2. India, Ireland, UK, abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of mobile phone.mobile phone Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run
  3. Internet, uncountable The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices. There are many business opportunities in mobile.
  4. One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel). […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles". […] We concentrated on a mobile teenager population that had good public transportation or automobile access and a[…]
  5. An object capable of moving under its own power.
  6. broadly, dated A creature or NPC that can navigate and interact with the game world (now often shortened to mob). MUD has a type of character called a mobile. These are monsters controlled by the program such as the Dragon and the Vampire. To kill these a band of adventurers need to hunt down the creature hurling a combined strength to vanquish it.

Mobile²

  • /moʊˈbiːl/ US
  • /ˈmoʊbiːl/ US
  • /məʊˈbiːl/ UK

Rhymes with -iːl

Where it comes from

From the name of (Mobile Bay, from the name of) the Mobile tribe, perhaps from the name of a Native town somewhere in what is now central Alabama, various spelled Mabila or Maubila.

proper noun

  1. A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama. Oh, Mama / Is this really the end? / To be stuck here inside of Mobile / With the Memphis blues again

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