mobileとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊbaɪl/, /ˈməʊbʌɪl/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊbəl/, /ˈmoʊbil/, /ˈmoʊbaɪl/, sculpture always IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊbil/
  Adjective

  • (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊ.baɪl/
  • 韻: -əʊbaɪl
  • (米国発音) enPR: mōʹbəl, IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊbəl/
  • 韻: -əʊbəl
  Noun

  • (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊ.baɪl/
  • 韻: -əʊbaɪl
  • (米国発音, phone) enPR: mōʹbəl, IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊbəl/
  • 韻: -əʊbəl
  • (米国発音, sculpture) enPR: mōʹbēl, IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊbil/
  • 韻: -əʊbiːl
  • Homophone: Mobile

形容詞

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

   Antonyms: fixed, immobile, sessile, stationary

   a mobile home

2. Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

   mobile number

   mobile internet

   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

     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.

   Synonyms: excitable, fickle

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:

     the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition

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

   mobile features

   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 176:

     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. (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

派生語

名詞

mobile (複数形 mobiles)

Mobile

Mobile hanging over a baby's crib

2. (art) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
4. (telephony, UK) Ellipsis of mobile phone

   Synonym: cell phone

   • 2000, “Idioteque”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead:

     Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run

6. (uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.

   there are many business opportunities in mobile

7. One who or moves, or who can move (e.g. to travel to a different place).
   • 1963, Highway Research Record:

     […] 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 […]

   • 1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson; Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:

     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.

   • 2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:

     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 […]

派生した語

• → Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)
• → Persian: موبایل‎ (mobâil)

関連する語

Further reading

• “mobile” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “mobile” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• mobile at OneLook Dictionary Search
• mobile on Wikipedia.
• mobile phone on Wikipedia.
• mobile (sculpture) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• bemoil, emboil, emboli

発音

• enPR: mə-bēl, IPA^(key): /məbiːl/ (the accent falls somewhere in the word to which this suffix is attached)

接尾辞

-mobile

1. Used to form nouns meaning a particular type of vehicle, particularly one to transport the person or thing described by the word to which the suffix is attached.

派生語