Mobile vs Allude - What's the difference?
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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.
To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.
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As a adjective mobile
is capable of being moved.As a noun mobile
is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().As a verb allude is
to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.mobile
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(wikipedia mobile)Adjective
(en adjective)citation
- Mercury is a mobile liquid.
- (Testament of Love)
- the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
- mobile features
Antonyms
* fixed * immobile * sessileDerived terms
* MASH * mobile library * mobile phone * mobile stationNoun
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* English heteronyms ----allude
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Verb
(allud)Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:
- These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
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- It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude .
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