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convention
English
Etymology
Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventi? (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveni? (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veni? (“come”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?v?n.??n/, /?k?n?v?n.??n/
Noun
convention (plural conventions)
- A meeting or gathering.
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- The convening of a formal meeting.
- A formal agreement, contract or pact.
- (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP ? V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be
optional.)
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conventi?, conventi?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.v??.sj??/
Noun
convention f (plural conventions)
- convention, agreement
- convention (formal meeting)
- convention (conventionally standardised choice)
Derived terms
- convention collective
Related terms
- conventionalisme m
- conventionnel
- conventionner
- convenir
Further reading
- “convention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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mobile
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin m?bilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from move? (“move”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m??ba?l/, /?m??b??l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mo?b?l/, /?mo?bil/, /?mo?ba?l/, sculpture always IPA(key): /?mo?bil/
Adjective
mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)
- Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
- Antonyms: fixed, immobile, sessile, stationary
- Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
- Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
- Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
- Synonyms: excitable, fickle
- Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
- (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
mobile (plural mobiles)
- (art) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
- (telephony, Britain) Ellipsis of mobile phone
- Synonym: cell phone
- (uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.
- Something that can move.
Translations
Related terms
Further reading
- mobile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- mobile in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- mobile at OneLook Dictionary Search
- mobile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- mobile phone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- mobile (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- bemoil, emboil, emboli
Danish
Adjective
mobile
- definite of mobil
- plural of mobil
Finnish
Etymology
< English mobile
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mobile/, [?mo?bile?] (nalle-type declension)
- IPA(key): /?mobile?/, [?mo?bile?(?)] (hame-type declension)
- Rhymes: -obile
- Syllabification: mo?bi?le
Noun
mobile
- mobile (kinetic sculpture)
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin m?bilis. Doublet of meuble.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?.bil/
Adjective
mobile (plural mobiles)
- mobile
- moving
- movable
Derived terms
Noun
mobile m (plural mobiles)
- (physics) moving body
- mobile (decoration)
- motive (for an action, for a crime)
- mobile phone; Ellipsis of téléphone mobile
- Synonyms: cell, téléphone cellulaire, cellulaire, téléphone mobile, téléphone portable, portable
Further reading
- “mobile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
mobile
- inflection of mobil:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Latin m?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?.bi.le/
- Rhymes: -?bile
Adjective
mobile (plural mobili)
- movable, mobile
- Antonym: immobile
- moving
Noun
mobile m (plural mobili)
- (in the singular) piece of furniture (item of furniture)
- (in the plural) furniture
- Synonyms: mobilia, mobilio, arredamento
- (heraldry) charge
- mobile (cellular phone)
- Synonyms: cellulare, telefonino
- Antonym: fisso
Related terms
Anagrams
- emboli
Latin
Adjective
m?bile
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of m?bilis
References
- mobile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
mobile
- definite singular of mobil
- plural of mobil
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
mobile
- definite singular of mobil
- plural of mobil
Swedish
Adjective
mobile
- absolute definite natural masculine form of mobil.
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