Mortal vs Motile - What's the difference?
mortal | motile |
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :
Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.11:
Fatally vulnerable; vital.
* Milton
Of or relating to the time of death.
* Alexander Pope
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
* Dryden
* mortal enemy
Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
* Milton
Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
(UK, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
A human; someone susceptible to death.
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*1596 , (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
*:Lord what fools these mortals be!
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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
(biology) having the power to move spontaneously
* {{quote-book
, date = 1993-05-06
, title = A Dead Man in Deptford
, first = Anthony
, last = Burgess
, authorlink = Anthony Burgess
, location = London
, publisher = Hutchinson
, isbn = 9780091779771
, ol = 1047075M
, passage = It seemed to him that, if there were a Holy Trinity as the churches taught, this must be unified through a manner of capillary action, Father merging into Son and both into Holy Ghost. So God is motile as the blood is.
}}
* {{quote-video
, date = 2010-01-21
, episode = The Proof in the Pudding
, title =
, season = 5
, number = 12
, at = 1:27
, people = (Emily Deschanel)
, role =
, passage = And even if they use condoms, Wendell is young. His sperm is likely to be extremely motile .
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(psychology) of or relating to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position
As adjectives the difference between mortal and motile
is that mortal is susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal while motile is (biology) having the power to move spontaneously.As a noun mortal
is a human; someone susceptible to death.mortal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.
- Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist / A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […].
- Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
- Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, / Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
- The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.
- mortal''' wit or knowledge; '''mortal power
- The voice of God / To mortal ear is dreadful.
- a sermon lasting two mortal hours
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- Let's go out and get mortal !
