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English

Alternative forms

• ix-nay

Etymology

Pig Latin version of nix; possibly the only Pig Latin phrase to enter common American English besides amscray. Ixnay and amscray were used widely in The Three Stooges shorts, possibly the main source of popularity for the words.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ks?ne?/

Interjection

ixnay

1. No.

Noun

ixnay (uncountable)

1. (slang, intransitive) Nothing; nix; often in the phrase "ixnay on ...", indicating something that must not be mentioned, often in Pig Latin

   Ixnay on the “W-A-L-K” while the dogs can hear you.

Verb

ixnay (third-person singular simple present ixnays, present participle ixnaying, simple past and past participle ixnayed)

1. (slang, transitive) To reject something.
   • 2009, Kathleen Kaska, Murder at the Arlington, Salvo Press ?ISBN

     If I wasn't so bored out of my mind, I would have ixnayed that idea.

   • 2013, Gervich Chad, How to Manage Your Agent: A Writer’s Guide to Hollywood Representation, CRC Press ?ISBN, page 295

     Personally, I'd rather feel momentarily bummed when my agent ixnays a two-paragraph idea than totally crushed when she ixnays a 110-page screenplay it took six months to perfect.

   • 2015, Angelina Mirabella, The Sweetheart: A Novel, Simon and Schuster ?ISBN, page 158

     You didn't want to ask for a handout—you have a vague memory of him ixnaying advances when you signed your contract—but you don't have much choice.

Related terms

• nix

See also

• XNAY
• Pig Latin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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)

1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

   Antonyms: fixed, immobile, sessile, stationary

2. Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
3. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.

4. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

   Synonyms: excitable, fickle

5. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.

6. (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

mobile (plural mobiles)

2. (art) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
4. (telephony, Britain) Ellipsis of mobile phone

   Synonym: cell phone
5. (uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.

6. 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

1. definite of mobil
2. 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

1. mobile (kinetic sculpture)

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?bilis. Doublet of meuble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.bil/

Adjective

mobile (plural mobiles)

1. mobile
2. moving
3. movable

Derived terms

Noun

mobile m (plural mobiles)

1. (physics) moving body
2. mobile (decoration)
3. motive (for an action, for a crime)
4. 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

1. inflection of mobil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. 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)

1. movable, mobile

   Antonym: immobile

2. moving

Noun

mobile m (plural mobili)

1. (in the singular) piece of furniture (item of furniture)
2. (in the plural) furniture

   Synonyms: mobilia, mobilio, arredamento

3. (heraldry) charge
4. mobile (cellular phone)

   Synonyms: cellulare, telefonino

   Antonym: fisso

Related terms

Anagrams

• emboli

Latin

Adjective

m?bile

1. 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

1. definite singular of mobil
2. plural of mobil

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

mobile

1. definite singular of mobil
2. plural of mobil

Swedish

Adjective

mobile

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of mobil.