Mobile vs Shifting - 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.
A shift or change; a shifting movement.
* (Charles Lamb)
* 1978 , Jack Vance, The View from Chickweed's Window
As a proper noun mobile
is a city in southwest alabama.As a verb shifting is
.As a noun shifting is
a shift or change; a shifting movement.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
Antonyms
* fixed * immobile * sessileDerived terms
* MASH * mobile library * mobile phone * mobile stationNoun
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* English heteronyms ----shifting
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass.
- Then everyone moved at the same time — slight shiftings of the hands and feet, furtive easings of position.