Alembic vs Mobile - What's the difference?
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An early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation
*1818 , Thomas Love Peacock,
*1836 , Emerson, Nature ,
*:Thus is Art, a nature passed through the alembic of man.
*1886 , Joseph Rémi Léopold Delboeuf,
*:The great physiologist Schwann, for instance, who died in 1882, maintained that there was an insurmountable barrier between us and those whom Michelet calls our inferior brethren. To him animals were alembics and electric batteries ; mechanics, physics, and chemistry could account for all their manifestations.
*1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow :
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 nouns the difference between alembic and mobile
is that alembic is an early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation 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.alembic
English
(wikipedia alembic)Alternative forms
* alembick (obsolete) * limbeckNoun
(en noun)- Ideal beauty is not the mind’s creation: it is real beauty, refined and purified in the mind’s alembic , from the alloy which always more or less accompanies it in our mixed and imperfect nature.
- We of all magical precipitates out of Europe’s groaning, clouded alembic , we are the thinnest, the most dangerous, the handiest to secular uses —
Anagrams
*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