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all | mobile |

As nouns the difference between all and mobile

is that all is (with a possessive pronoun) everything possible while mobile is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().

As an adverb all

is (degree) (intensifier).

As a determiner all

is every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).

As a conjunction all

is (obsolete) although.

As an adjective mobile is

capable of being moved.

all

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (degree) (intensifier).
  • You’ve got it all wrong.
    She was all , “Whatever.”
  • Apiece; each.
  • The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
  • * 1878 , Gerard Manley Hopkins,
  • His locks like all a ravel-rope’s-end,
    With hempen strands in spray
  • (degree) So much.
  • Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
  • (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
  • The butter is all .
  • (obsolete, poetic) even; just
  • * Spenser
  • All as his straying flock he fed.
  • * Gay
  • A damsel lay deploring / All on a rock reclined.

    Synonyms

    * completely

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
  • :
  • *
  • *:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
  • *, chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
  • Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
  • : (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
  • : (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
  • Everyone.
  • :
  • Everything.
  • :
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
  • (lb) Any.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:without all remedy
  • Only; alone; nothing but.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
  • Noun

  • (with a possessive pronoun) Everything possible.
  • She gave her all , and collapsed at the finish line.
  • (countable) The totality of one's possessions.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, pp. 37-8:
  • she therefore ordered Jenny to pack up her alls and begone, for that she was determined she should not sleep that night within her walls.

    Derived terms

    * a bit of all right * after all * all about * all along * all-American * all and sundry * all-around * all around * all at once * All Blacks * all but * all clear * all-comers * all-day * all-embracing * all-encompassing * all fingers and thumbs * all-fire * All Fools' Day * all for * All Hallows * All Hallows' Day * all hands on deck * allheal * all-important * all in * all-in * all in all * all-in wrestling * all-inclusive * all-knowing * all-night * all-nighter * all of a sudden * all one * all one's life's worth * all or nothing * all-out * all over * all-over * all-overish * all over the place * all over with * all-party * all-powerful * all-purpose * all right * all-round * all-rounder * All Saints' Day * allseed * all-seeing * * allsorts * All Souls' Day * allspice * all square * all-star * all systems go * all that * all the best * all the more * all the same * all the way * all-time * all together * all told * all-too-familiar * all-up * all-up service * all up with * all very well * all-weather * and all * and all that * at all * be all ears * be-all and end-all * best of all * bugger all * catchall * coveralls * cure-all * for all * for good and all * fuck all * give one's all * go all the way * in all * know-it-all * most of all * naff all * not all there * not at all * on all fours * once and for all * overalls * sod all * when all is said and done

    See also

    * any * each * every * everyone * everything * none * some *

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (obsolete) although
  • * (rfdate) Spenser
  • All they were wondrous loth.

    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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