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Hitherto vs Mobile - What's the difference?

hitherto | mobile |

As an adverb hitherto

is (formal|or|legal) up to this or that time .

As an 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 ().

hitherto

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (formal, or, legal) Up to this or that time.
  • * 1830 , Anna Maria Porter, The Barony (volume 3, page 460)
  • The exhaustless conjecturings of that evening's full conversation, made such of the small party, as had hitherto been strangers, well acquainted with each other's turn of mind

    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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