Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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mobile

UK /ˈməʊ.baɪl/ · US /ˈmoʊ.bəl/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms mobiles

  1. adjective Capable of being moved, especially on wheels. “mobile home; mobile library”
  2. adjective Able to move freely or easily. “She's mobile again after her skiing accident.”
  3. adjective Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones. “mobile number”
  4. adjective Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom. “Mercury is a mobile liquid.”
  5. adjective Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
  6. adjective Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind. “mobile features”
  7. adjective (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
  8. noun (sculpture) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
  9. noun (uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices. “There are many business opportunities in mobile.”
  10. noun One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
  11. noun An object capable of moving under its own power.
  12. noun (by extension, video games, dated) A creature or NPC that can navigate and interact with the game world (now often shortened to mob).
  13. proper noun A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.

Synonyms

movable afoot animate astir cursory dynamic in motion moving on the move on the wing under sail unstill ambulatory kinetic motile motive vagile fluxive flowy fluent Mobile River nomadic peregrine roving wandering fluid

Antonyms

fixed immobile immovable sessile stationary stabile inanimate

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”). The video-gaming sense was coined by Richard Bartle to describe NPCs or creatures capable of moving "under their own power" in the 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon. Bartle retracted an earlier claim of his that it was from the kinetic sculpture sense of mobile (for the "unpredictable but limited" motion of the hanging ornaments).

From the name of (Mobile Bay, from the name of) the Mobile tribe, perhaps from the name of a Native town somewhere in what is now central Alabama, various spelled Mabila or Maubila.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
  2. adjective Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; --opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
  3. noun The mob; the populace. [Obs.] "The unthinking mobile." South.

Etymology [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to move: cf. F. mobile. See Move.]

Etymology [L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf. 3d Mob.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “mobile”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details