Real Dictionary

-mobile in American English
motorized vehicle designed for a (specified) purpose
suffix: a combining form extracted from automobile, occurring as the final element in compounds denoting specialized types of motorized conveyances (snowmobile); it is esp. productive in coinages naming vehicles equipped to procure or deliver objects, provide ser

-mobile in British English
suffix forming nouns: indicating a vehicle designed for a particular person or purpose

Mobile in American English
moving, or capable of moving or being moved, from place to place
seaport in SW Ala., on Mobile Bay: pop. 199,000
adjective: capable of moving or being moved readily
noun: a piece of sculpture having delicately balanced units constructed of rods and sheets of metal or other material suspended in midair by wire or twine so that the individual parts can move independently, as when stirred by a breeze

mobile in British English
adjective: having freedom of movement; movable
noun: a port in SW Alabama, on Mobile Bay (an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico): the state's only port and its first permanent settlement, made by French colonists in 1711. Pop: 193 464 (2003 est)
noun: a sculpture suspended in midair with delicately balanced parts that are set in motion by air currents