MOBILE

• (noun) sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

  Lucy hung the bird mobile in the balcony so it could move with the wind. -added by naila_inlas

• (noun) a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay

  Mobile is the third most populous city in Alabama. -added by naila_inlas

• (noun) a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay

  synonyms : mobile river

  The Mobile river was essential for trade with the Native Americans and the French. -added by naila_inlas

• (adj.) moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)

  "a mobile missile system", "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"

  India has a well developed mobile missile system. -added by naila_inlas

• (adj.) affording change (especially in social status)

  "Britain is not a truly fluid society", "upwardly mobile"

  synonyms : fluid

• (adj.) capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another

  "a highly mobile face"

  The actor had a highly mobile face. -added by naila_inlas

• (adj.) having transportation available

  I hired a taxi so I could be mobile during my visit to the city. -added by naila_inlas

• (adj.) migratory

  "a restless mobile society", "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins", "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future", "wandering tribes"

  synonyms : nomadic , peregrine , roving , wandering

  The Bedouin tribes of the Sahara and Sinai deserts lead a nomadic lifestyle. -added by naila_inlas

  The Bedouin are a mobile tribe that travel along with their herd of sheep and goat. -added by naila_inlas

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