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発音

• enPR: mə-bēl, IPA: /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.
   • 2015, Peter Gould, “Mijo” (12:44 from the start), in Better Call Saul, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk):

     I thought, if I had these two run their little skateboard hustle on Mrs. Kettleman, I could, you know, rescue her. […] But, it turns out, your lovely abuelita, she drives a car that's a whole lot like the Kettle-mobile.

派生語

アナグラム

• bemoil, emboil, emboli

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈməʊ.baɪl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmoʊ.bəl/, /ˈmoʊ.bil/, /ˈmoʊ.baɪl/
  • (sculpture always) IPA: /ˈmoʊ.bil/
    • Homophone: Mobile
• (North India) IPA: /moˈbɑjl/, [moː.bäːɪ̯l]
• (South India) IPA: /mɵˈbəjl/, [mö.bɐɪ̯l]; /ˈmo.bəjl/, [moː.bɐɪ̯l]

形容詞

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

   Synonyms: movable; see also Thesaurus:in motion, Thesaurus:movable

   Antonyms: fixed, immobile, immovable, 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, 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.

   Synonyms: fluxive; see also Thesaurus:runny

   Mercury is a mobile liquid.

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

   Synonyms: excitable, fickle; see also Thesaurus:changeable

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

     the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition

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

   mobile features

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, 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.

   Synonym: motile

   Antonym: sessile

派生語

名詞

mobile (plural mobiles)

1. (sculpture) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.

   Antonym: stabile

2. (telephony, UK, Ireland, India) Ellipsis of mobile phone.

   Synonym: cell phone

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

     Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run

   • 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:

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

3. (uncountable, Internet) 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).

   Antonym: immobile

   • 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 […]

5. An object capable of moving under its own power.

   Antonym: inanimate

6. (by extension, video games, dated) A creature or NPC that can navigate and interact with the game world (now often shortened to mob).

   Synonyms: mob, mobile object, agent, non-player character

   • 1984, Simon Rockman, “Rockman Files: MUD, MUD, Glorious MUD”, in Games Computing, volume April 1984, page 89:

     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.

   • 1991, “Modems and Mazes: Life and Death Over the Phone”, in The Gamesman, volume December 1991, page 16:

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

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)
• → Kurtöp: མོ་བ་འིལ (mobail)
• → Persian: موبایل (mobâil)

関連する語

Further reading

• “mobile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mobile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “mobile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• mobile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mobile phone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mobile (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• bemoil, emboil, emboli

形容詞

mōbile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of mōbilis

参照

• "mobile", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)