Pumice vs Mobile - What's the difference?
pumice | mobile |
A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into the air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles. As the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock.
* 1912, , The Woman at the Store , Oxford World's Classics 2002, page 10
To abrade or roughen with pumice.
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.
As nouns the difference between pumice and mobile
is that pumice is a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into the air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles as the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock while mobile is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().As a verb pumice
is to abrade or roughen with pumice.As an adjective mobile is
capable of being moved.pumice
English
Noun
(wikipedia pumice) (-)- The wind blew close to the ground - it rooted among the tussock grass - slithered along the road, so that the white pumice dust swirled in our faces - settled and sifted over us and was like a dry-skin itching for growth on our bodies.
Verb
(pumic)See also
* pumice stone ----mobile
English
(wikipedia mobile)Adjective
(en adjective)citation
- Mercury is a mobile liquid.
- (Testament of Love)
- the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
- mobile features