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Hickey vs Mobile - What's the difference?

hickey | mobile |

As nouns the difference between hickey and mobile

is that hickey is (us|slang) a bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking while mobile is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().

As an adjective mobile is

capable of being moved.

hickey

English

(wikipedia hickey)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
  • (informal, slang) an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
  • (printing) A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo.
  • Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
  • A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.
  • (US, slang, business, finance) An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action, often preceded by the words "taking a ..." or "took a ... ".

    • Synonyms

    * (bruise-like mark) love bite, lovebite, knot * (tool) conduit bender * See also

    Derived terms

    * doohickey, dohickey

    See also

    * Web page on printing hickeys English placeholder terms

    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.

    • Related terms

    * mobility * mobilize * mobilization * move

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