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mobile

/ˈmoʊbəl/

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End with a light “bul.”

Start with the long o of go. Keep the first syllable strongest and the vowel after b unstressed, rather than using a long i ending.

2 syllables · Stress on syllable 1

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The display is designed for a mobile device.

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

What does mobile mean?

adjective

  1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
  2. Able to move freely or easily.
  3. Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
More meanings (11)

adjective

  1. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
  2. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
  3. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
  4. Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

noun

  1. A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
  2. Ellipsis of mobile phone.
  3. The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices.
  4. One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
  5. An object capable of moving under its own power.
  6. (dated) A creature or NPC that can navigate and interact with the game world (now often shortened to mob).

proper noun

  1. A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈmoʊbəl/

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈmoʊ.bil//ˈmoʊ.baɪl//moʊˈbiːl//ˈmoʊbiːl/
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In the pages of books

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In developing its work program, the Council may address other closely related issues, including emissions from on-road and non-road mobile sources.
CanadaNorth American Free Trade Agreement, 1992 Oct. 7 Tariff Phasing DescriptionsProject Gutenberg ebook #89
The exciting causes that may act on crowds being so varied, and crowds always obeying them, crowds are in consequence extremely mobile.
Gustave Le BonThe crowd : $b A study of the popular mindProject Gutenberg ebook #445
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At the tip of the belly, two small, mobile appendages form a sort of tail, a rather curious feature in a Spider.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the SpiderTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #1887
His expression is bright and mobile, his lips and teeth are generally distorted and discoloured by the constant chewing of betel nut.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
Through these the white blood corpuscles squeeze their mobile bodies and work their way through the intervening tissues toward the affected area.
Henry LindlahrNature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & CureProject Gutenberg ebook #4273