I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mobile library British English (= a small library inside a vehicle )
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A mobile library visits the village once a week.
downwardly mobile
mobile home
mobile phone
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mobile phone users
upwardly mobile
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the upwardly mobile middle classes
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Charged solitons are not as mobile as their neutral counterparts.
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And the Southeast is seeing growing numbers of service jobs attracting young singles as well as mobile baby boomers.
highly
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These highly mobile skirmishers can be used to draw Goblin fanatics out of their units prior to a charge by more heavily armed troops.
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Today, with highly mobile international capital, large deficits can be sustained for much longer.
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A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit.
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The chimpanzee is highly mobile and semi-terrestrial, showing great adaptability to a wide range of woodlands.
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The usual pattern of referral and case allocation is unsuited to highly mobile families.
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They consist of highly mobile young people and families, commuters, and tourists, as well as disadvantaged groups such as refugees.
more
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People became more mobile , both physically and socially; men wished to rise in the world.
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However, the fabulous goal-kicker is now much more mobile than he was last year when a niggling groin injury affected him.
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Sao Paulo boasts more mobile telephones than Paris.
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In general, therefore, subcontract labour will tend to be more mobile than directly employed labour.
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Actually, only Black has chances to win, in view of his dark square control and more mobile pawns.
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The communiqué reaffirmed the trend to arms reductions and smaller, more mobile forces.
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After 20 sessions, 70 percent of those breathing pure oxygen tired less easily and became more mobile and co-ordinated.
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Elsewhere, the war was more mobile .
most
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I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.
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These workers are the most mobile and have the greatest incentive to evaluate carefully the relative and absolute risks.
socially
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They are socially mobile , many of them having risen from working class backgrounds to new heights in the class structure.
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Children are more likely to obtain jobs in the class bracket of their fathers than they are to be socially mobile .
upwardly
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A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.
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We had moved to an upwardly mobile suburb of Chicago.
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The Kotalawalas and the in Rayigam Korale, were both upwardly mobile Goyigama families with much local influence.
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The congregation was mostly young, unmarried, well-educated and upwardly mobile .
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The Praga became a favoured haunt for upwardly mobile apparatchiks, visiting VIPs and wedding parties.
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Conforming to the more rigid traditions such as locking up women is a privilege only the upwardly mobile can afford.
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Perhaps the upwardly mobile middle classes in 1990s Detroit are now surrounding themselves with postmodern houses and artefacts!
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He should be an achiever and upwardly mobile in his job.
■ NOUN
clinic
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The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
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We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
face
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They did not show emotions as plainly as more mobile faces did.
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He finds a woman in black lace, with piercing eyes and a mobile face .
home
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The couple moved a mobile home on to their twenty acre smallholding at Awre after they bought the land four years ago.
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My dad was a minister, and we traveled a lot on weekends in a mobile home .
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As soon as it is sold the 58-year-old widow plans to move into the mobile home in nearby Laguna Beach.
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Some 70 mobile homes were flooded.
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A 36-year-old woman died when a tornado swept through her mobile home .
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The retired Internal Revenue Service employee paid $ 15, 500 for the two-bedroom mobile home on space 72.
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At first all structures will be temporary - mobile homes and the like.
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Ruestman died from a single shot to his heart after answering a knock at the front door of his mobile home .
launcher
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The mobile launcher sat on pedestals over a 17.7 m wide flame trench.
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The combination of pad, mobile launcher and flame trench was cooled with a water deluge system.
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The crawler, mobile launchers and launch pads are all modified versions of the original components used for Apollo.
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On the mobile launcher the white room at the end of the swing arm connects with this hatch.
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In any case, you can not destroy all the mobile launchers , such as Polaris submarines.
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A Saturn V sits on its mobile launcher at complex 39A.
library
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A mobile library visits once a fortnight.
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A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library .
mouth
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I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.
phase
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Separation of the components on or in the stationary phase by a continuous flow of the mobile phase.
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Both depend on the partition of the components of the mixture between a stationary phase and a mobile phase.
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The sections on column and mobile phase selection, and on instrumental parameters, make interesting reading.
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The components are partitioned between the liquid and the mobile phase .
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In both types of chromatography, portions of each component remain dissolved in the mobile phase .
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The mobile phase flows continuously over the stationary phase and as it does so separates the components on the stationary phase.
phone
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It is all made possible by smart phones , the next generation mobile phones equipped with a Psion-designed operating system.
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He whined on the air for three weeks before one of his sponsors relented and gave him a free mobile phone .
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Tarquin is in the corridor calling on his mobile phone .
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There wasn't a dry eye on the terrace-until somebody's mobile phone went off, anachronistically.
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The researchers used a radio with similar frequency and power to a typical mobile phone to demonstrate the effect in their lab.
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It used to be only the City yuppie, but now most people can afford a mobile phone .
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Consumers are thought to be waiting to see if new mobile phone services and email via television meet their needs.
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There is still no mobile phone system, no credit cards and no convertible currency.
radio
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In November another dispute arose involving Chalerm when he criticized the Army's seizure of a mobile radio unit.
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The 1990s have been characterized by record-breaking growth in most wireless segments, including cellular, paging, and specialized mobile radio .
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A cellular phone is really a mobile radio system that sends a signal out over public airwaves.
service
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Director Malcolm Ashman said mobile services could be a vital contact.
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It's the first exclusively online mobile service , available to customers who access its services.
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Hutchison plans to roll out its mobile service nationally, either late next year or early in 1994.
shop
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In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves.
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A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop .
telephone
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Meanwhile, the company hopes to go ahead later this month with the launch of its Creditphone mobile telephone service.
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It said he had spoken with her by mobile telephone several times that night.
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It competes with three other mobile telephone companies.
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He used a scanner to listen, at random, to mobile telephone conversations.
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As a result, prior to the cellular authorization, only some fifty-four channels were allocated for mobile telephone service nationwide.
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It included radio and television stations, paging devices, mobile telephones , Orion Pictures and the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Shares of telecommunications companies like Newbridge fell after mobile telephone maker Motorola Inc. yesterday reported lower-than-expected earnings.
unit
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A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit .
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More air mobile units were on the way.
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For example, two new mobile units are now taking chiropody and dentistry to the villages.
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There were lines of people selling blood at mobile units , people who seemed hollow-bodied, so small, in such collapse.
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There's certainly one mobile unit on the market at the moment, though not many people realize it.
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Seniors can make appointments to visit the mobile unit by calling their local senior center.
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Air Quality work has gathered pace, after the disastrous loss of our mobile unit at the beginning of the year.
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We were recording in a mobile unit in this street, because I'd broken my leg.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alligators are really mobile animals, used to moving from one body of water to another.
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Ethel needed help on the stairs, but was otherwise mobile .
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He won't be mobile for some time. It's a bad knee sprain.
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It's important to keep the patient mobile during recovery.
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Neuman revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour.
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Remote areas are served by a number of weekly mobile clinics.
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She has an extraordinarily mobile face and an infectiously comic manner.
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The community currently receives service from a rural mobile library.
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The population of the U.S. has become more geographically and socially mobile .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As soon as it is sold the 58-year-old widow plans to move into the mobile home in nearby Laguna Beach.
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Eleven mobile eye screening units are now in operation throughout the United Kingdom.
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The mobile phase flows continuously over the stationary phase and as it does so separates the components on the stationary phase.
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The 1990s have been characterized by record-breaking growth in most wireless segments, including cellular, paging, and specialized mobile radio.
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They agreed to leave the hill and their mobile homes behind, and to remove the mobile homes on Sunday.
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Using souped-up scanners and antennas, thieves station themselves near mobile phone callers.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A patrol is already searching, and other mobiles are on stand-by.
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Around two thirds of the mobile increased their social class while around one third moved downward.
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Digital mobiles witter noisily at high frequencies.
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Members sat beneath handmade mobiles hung with colorful Origami birds.
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So mobiles are the new car radios.