Functioning and Mobile

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• A river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay.
  • synonyms: Mobile River
• A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay.
• Sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents.

adjective

• Migratory.
  • usage: "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
  • synonyms: nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering
• Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place. )
  • usage: "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is... The most mobile articulator"
• Having transportation available.
• Capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another.
  • usage: "a highly mobile face"
• Affording change (especially in social status. )
  • usage: "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile"
  • synonyms: fluid

• (a.) Capable of being moved, aroused or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
• (a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
• (a.) The mob; the populace.
• (a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.