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Dilemma vs Mobile - What's the difference?

dilemma | mobile |

As nouns the difference between dilemma and mobile

is that dilemma is a circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable 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.

dilemma

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • A strong dilemma in a desperate case! / To act with infamy, or quit the place.
  • A difficult circumstance or problem.
  • (logic) A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
  • (rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.

    • Usage notes

    * The sense of a difficult circumstance or problem is considered non-standard[by whom?]. * Occasionally spelled/misspelled as dilemna'', perhaps originally via false analogy with words such as ''condemn'', ''solemn'', and ''hymn . This spelling has been reportedly taught in many regions of Great Britain and the United States as well as around the world; and can be found in the works of many well-known authors (e.g. Watts, Defroe & Goldsmith). World Wide Words: Dilemma

    Synonyms

    * (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives) * (any difficult circumstance) bind, fix, pickle, problem, quandary * (logic) * (rhetoric) * See also

    Derived terms

    * on the horns of a dilemma

    Related terms

    * lemma * trilemma * tetralemma * pentalemma

    See also

    * * between a rock and a hard place * between the devil and the deep blue sea * between Scylla and Charybdis * Buridan's ass

    References

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    Anagrams

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    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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