mobile

adj

1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

   “a mobile home”

2. Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

   “mobile number”

   “mobile internet”

   “A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.”

3. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.

   “Mercury is a mobile liquid.”

4. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

   “the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition”

5. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.

   “mobile features”

   “His finely cut features were capable of every variety of expression; they were, to use a French epithet, expressive as their epithets for all social qualities usually are, mobile in the extreme.”

6. Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

noun

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, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of mobile phone.

   “Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run”

   “Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet.”

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.”

   “The bug affects mobile, but not desktop.”

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[…]”

   “Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.”

   “One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The 'immobiles' brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used[…]”

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.”

   “Even mundane mobiles are very advanced. They incorporate other expert systems that enable them to fight (often better than the players); […]”

name

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”