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Diurnal vs Mobile - What's the difference?

diurnal | mobile |

As adjectives the difference between diurnal and mobile

is that diurnal is happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time while mobile is capable of being moved.

As nouns the difference between diurnal and mobile

is that diurnal is a flower that opens only in the day while mobile is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().

diurnal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
  • Most birds are diurnal .
  • * Shakespeare
  • Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring / Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring.
  • (botany) Said of a flower open, or releasing its perfume during daylight hours, but not at night.
  • Having a daily cycle that is completed every 24 hours, usually referring to tasks, processes, tides, or sunrise to sunset.
  • (uncommon) Done once every day; daily, quotidian.
  • (archaic) Published daily.
  • Synonyms

    * (having a daily cycle) circadian (biology)

    Antonyms

    * (happening or active during the day) nocturnal, nightly * (active or open during the day) nocturnal

    Coordinate terms

    * (active or open during the day) crepuscular

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flower that opens only in the day.
  • (Catholicism) A book containing canonical offices performed during the day, hence not matins.
  • (archaic) A diary or journal.
  • * 1663 ,
  • He was by birth, some authors write, / A Russian, some a Muscovite, / And 'mong the Cossacks had been bred, / Of whom we in diurnals read.
  • (archaic) A daily news publication.
  • mobile

    English

    (wikipedia mobile)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being moved.
  • By agency of mobile phones.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine= citation
  • , passage=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.}}
  • Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
  • Mercury is a mobile liquid.
  • Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
  • (Testament of Love)
  • * Hawthorne
  • the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
  • Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
  • mobile features
  • (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
  • Antonyms

    * fixed * immobile * sessile

    Derived terms

    * MASH * mobile library * mobile phone * mobile station

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Anagrams

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