Mobile vs Electric - 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.
Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
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Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
* (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Drawing electricity from an external source; not battery-operated; corded.
(informal) .
(rare) An electric car.
(archaic) A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.
Mobile is a related term of electric.
As a proper noun mobile
is a city in southwest alabama.As an adjective electric is
electric.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
(en noun)External links
* * *Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----electric
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Alternative forms
* electrick (chiefly archaic)Adjective
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Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
- Electric Pindar.
Derived terms
* electrical * electrical outlet * electrical engineer * electric chair * electric darts * electric eye * electric fence * electric grid (power grid) * electric shockNoun
(en-noun)References
* * *Dictionary.com definitions of electric* Niels H. de V. Heathcote (December 1967). "
The early meaning of electricity'': Some ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'' - I". ''Annals of Science 23 (4): pp. 261-275. 1000 English basic words ----