Desktop vs Mobile - What's the difference?
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The top surface of a desk.
(computing) A desktop computer.
(computing) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.
Designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture.
(computing) Of an application, converted to be carried out on a personal computer.
Capable of being moved.
By agency of mobile phones.
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Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
* Hawthorne
Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
(biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().
A mobile phone ().
Something that can move.
As a noun desktop
is the top surface of a desk.As an adjective desktop
is designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture.As a proper noun mobile is
a city in southwest alabama.desktop
English
Noun
(en noun)- Laptops are often more expensive than desktops .
- I installed a new application and it added its icon to my desktop .
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* desktop computer * desktop environment * desktop metaphor * desktop publishing ----mobile
English
(wikipedia mobile)Adjective
(en adjective)citation
- Mercury is a mobile liquid.
- (Testament of Love)
- the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
- mobile features