mobile phone
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- noun
- /ˈmoʊbəl foʊn/
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teléfono móvil
- I have their mobile-phone number.
- mobile phone service
- mobile phone operator
- mobile phone users
So, you know, our mobile phones are material objects.
- So, you know, our mobile phones are material objects.
- You know, she's there on a little mobile phone using one of those dodgy apps.
- And this has been used in the past for mobile phone encryption.
- And I had a mobile phone, so I gave him my phone number.
- I have here in my pocket a mobile phone.
- To start with, I'm going to talk about why these things that we call mobile phones aren't really mobile.
- Now it, do you remember the brick mobile phones?
- Chinese automakers like BYD started out manufacturing mobile phone batteries.
- Globally also one in five people will buy a mobile phone this year.
- It's more hygienic to lick a toilet seat than it is to lick a mobile phone screen.
- Lost my mobile phone is what it is.
Examples
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Calls made from these types of mobile phones are difficult to trace (Anonymous, 2005).
Academic text (2008) -
And I had a mobile phone, so I gave him my phone number.
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And really, when you get down to it, the mobile phone market is growing.
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And now there are more mobile phones than there are people in the world.
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Well, I'm on a mobile phone getting angry all the time.
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There is controversy related to mobile phone use in the classroom.
Academic text (2014) -
Students could use their mobile phones for learning while exploring their communities.
Academic text (2012) -
Then the telephone van driver let me use his mobile phone to call my wife, Barb, at home.
Fiction book (2000) -
Before he could respond, his mobile phone pinged, and he checked the ID and took the call.
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Are there differences in the frequency of mobile phone use between American and Chinese college students?
Synonyms
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A device for talking to people far away
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A mobile phone used to call and text people
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1.8
A small computer you carry with a touchscreen that makes calls and runs apps
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1.0
A pair of small speakers you wear on or in your ears to listen to sound
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1.0
A small phone you carry to call people, send messages, and use apps
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2.3
A portable phone people carry to call or send messages
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3.0
A small phone you carry to make calls and send messages from many places
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3.3
A phone that uses radio signals so you can move while talking
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8.4
A telephone that sends voice or data by radio waves instead of wires
A phone that sends and receives voice using radio waves
How Portable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a portable telephone' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'mobile' (able to move/portable) with 'phone' (telephone/device for calls). This adjective+noun compositional pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Mobile phone comes from the idea of a phone you can carry with you. mobile means able to move and phone means 'telephone'. So, mobile phone today means a 'portable' telephone you can use 'on the move'.