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Conn vs Mobile - What's the difference?

conn | mobile |

As nouns the difference between conn and mobile

is that conn is the duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have'' or '' to take and accompanied by the article "the" while mobile is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().

As a verb conn

is to direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.

As an adjective mobile is

capable of being moved.

conn

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have'' or '' to take and accompanied by the article "the."
    • The officer of the deck has the conn of the vessel; the captain took the conn when he reached the bridge.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.
    • The pilot conned the ship safely into the harbor.
  • *1724 , Daniel Defoe,
  • *:“Ay,” says I, “you’ll allow me to steer, that is, hold the helm, but you’ll conn the ship, as they call it; that is, as at sea, a boy serves to stand at the helm, but he that gives him the orders is pilot.”

    • 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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