mobile : Idioms & Phrases

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mobile bay

  • noun a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River
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mobile canteen

  • noun a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen
    canteen.
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mobile home

  • noun a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing
    manufactured home.
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mobile phone

  • noun a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
    cell; cellular phone; cellular telephone; cellphone.
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mobile river

  • noun a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
    Mobile.
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primum mobile

  • noun an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause
    prime mover; first cause.
    • God is the first cause
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Pri"mum mob"i*le
Etymology
L., first cause of motion.
Definitions
  1. (Astron.) In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline.
    The motions of the greatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile. Bacon.
Webster 1913