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Adjective: mobile  mowb(I)l
  1. Migratory
    "a restless mobile society"
    - nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering
     
  2. Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
    "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"
     
  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)
    "upwardly mobile"
    - fluid
Noun: mobile  mowb(I)l
  1. Sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
Noun: Mobile  mow'beel
  1. A river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
    - Mobile River
     
  2. A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay

Derived forms: mobiles

See also: airborne, ambulant, ambulatory, changeable, changeful, floating, maneuverable [US], manoeuvrable [Brit, Cdn], mechanised [Brit], mechanized, mobility, motile, motorised [Brit], motorized, movable, moveable, moving, perambulating, racy, raisable, raiseable, rangy, rotatable, seaborne, transferable, transferrable, transplantable, transportable, unsettled, versatile, waterborne

Type of: city, metropolis, port, river, sculpture, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Antonym: immobile, stabile

Part of: AL, Alabama, Camellia State, Heart of Dixie

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