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immobile

adj
/ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/UK/ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/US/ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/

Etymology

From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- + mobile.

  1. derived from immōbilis
  2. derived from immobile

Definitions

  1. Fixed, not movable.

    • This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.

  2. One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).

    • […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]
    • One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The immobiles brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at immobile. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at immobile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at immobile

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA