What's the difference between feckless and mobile?

Feckless


Definition:

  • (a.) Spiritless; weak; worthless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
  • (2) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
  • (3) Feckless Tom Bertram is a haunter of seaside resorts.
  • (4) The right is very flexible on industrial action: in the 80s striking miners were characterised as violent and feckless, despite being unarmed against mounted police and arguably the opposite of feckless – battling to keep backbreaking jobs.
  • (5) Feckless in all other respects, Richard feels protective towards Walter, which is why he won't sleep with Patty.
  • (6) The targets of Karzai's often intemperate outbursts were equally frustrated, dubbing the president "feckless" and "unreliable", briefing that he was "paranoid" and possibly abusing prescription drugs.
  • (7) Rayner later said of her parents that "they were very young and very feckless".
  • (8) The problem, however, of grand multipara who are feckless, ignorant and of low social class, still remains.
  • (9) That the EU is seeking greater powers to steal the money of rich nations to deal with the feckless Spanish and Greeks.
  • (10) It’s not as easy for them as cutting benefits, which could simply be depicted as taking candy from obese babies and their feckless mothers.
  • (11) And on tax and capitalism in general, public opinion is, if anything, moving leftwards, as tax cheats and feckless bankers solidify into popular demons.
  • (12) Jesse James, a cold-blooded killer, lived a simple life: he murdered people, he robbed banks, he got shot in the back by feckless confederates, he died.
  • (13) The BBC has upheld complaints against Top Gear over Richard Hammond's comments that Mexicans are "lazy, feckless [and] flatulent".
  • (14) The bromance sub-genre suggests a perpendicular solution to similar issues: friendship replaces sex, and in the sharp Role Models , bromantically involved Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott also form surrogate parental bonds with feckless males-in-training Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Bobb'e J Thompson .
  • (15) Their analysis – that the problem is worklessness – is wrong; their assumptions – that the poor are feckless – are wrong.
  • (16) He said: "It is utterly shocking and I hope that the ministers will take note of this and get hold of some of these feckless fathers, drag them off, put them in chains if necessary, make them work and make them pay back society for the cost of bringing up the children they chose to bring into this world."
  • (17) It was a stern lecture, naturally, but nothing like the old days when a performance that feckless would have seen a wedding set's worth of­ ­crockery smashed against the dressing-room walls.
  • (18) Clarkson previously maligning Mexicans as "lazy, feckless and flatulent", or making jokes about "black Muslim lesbians", or Sterling twice being fined by the department of justice for being a racist slumlord, didn't quite cut it.
  • (19) When Scotsman Harry Stanley was killed by police in the same year after leaving a London pub carrying a table leg and being mistaken for an Irishman with a sawn-off shotgun he was demonised as a feckless drunk.
  • (20) Coalitions involve compromises, but it is a shameful moment to see Britain's most pro-European party, and pro-European Tories such as Kenneth Clarke, trooping into the lobbies tonight in support of such a foolish, feckless and futile bill.

Mobile


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
  • (2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
  • (3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
  • (4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
  • (5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
  • (6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
  • (7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
  • (8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
  • (9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
  • (10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
  • (11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
  • (12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
  • (13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
  • (14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
  • (15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
  • (17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
  • (18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
  • (19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
  • (20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.