Tramp vs Mobile - What's the difference?
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(pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
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(pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
* 1888 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :
* 1919 , Charles Fort, :
* 1924 , George Sutherland, :
* 1960 , (Lobsang Rampa), :
(Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
* 1968 , John W. Allen, It Happened in Southern Illinois ,
* 2005 , Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring , Lonely Planet,
* 2006 , Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Australia from $60 a Day ,
, especially a very small one.
To walk with heavy footsteps.
To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
To hitchhike
To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
To travel or wander through.
(Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
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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.
As nouns the difference between tramp and mobile
is that tramp is (pejorative) a homeless person, a vagabond while mobile is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().As a verb tramp
is to walk with heavy footsteps.As an adjective mobile is
capable of being moved.tramp
English
Noun
(en noun)- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp .
- "I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp ."
- "Claudia is such a tramp ; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend."
- I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp -ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea.
- Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.
- Some of these are regular ocean liners; others are casual tramp ships.
- “Hrrumph,” said the Mate. “Get into uniform right away, we must have discipline here.” With that he stalked off as if he were First Mate on one of the Queens instead of just on a dirty, rusty old tramp ship.
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- The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.
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- Speaking of knockout panoramas, if you?re fit then consider doing the taxing, winding, 8km tramp' up ' Mt Roy (1578m; five to six hours return), start 6km from Wanaka on Mt Aspiring Rd.
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- The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.
Synonyms
* (homeless person) bum, hobo, vagabond ** See also * (disreputable woman) See also * (type of ship) see * (long walk) bushwalk, hike, ramble, trekDerived terms
* tramp ant * tramp stampVerb
(en verb)- We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.
- to tramp the country
- (Jamieson)
Derived terms
* trample * trompReferences
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
