What's the difference between itinerant and mobile?

Itinerant


Definition:

  • (a.) Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.
  • (a.) One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Active surveillance components included an itinerant chest clinic and survey chest roentgenography program, epidemiologic case investigations, and skin testing.
  • (2) After an itinerant childhood, overshadowed by abandonment and infidelity, Yates claimed to have experimented with sex and heroin at an early age.
  • (3) Porters, rickshaw drivers, nurses, patients, students, bureaucrats, doctors and itinerant holy men all stand to eat their heavily subsidised meals, priced at no more than 5 rupees (5p) and eaten at ferocious speed with fingers from tin plates.
  • (4) You itinerate based on those failures - or as they say in technology "fail early and often", to develop a model that works.
  • (5) Hearing the story, I realise that present contentment – enjoying the gym, pool, doctor, bar and other conveniences – masks itinerant pasts, full of adventure.
  • (6) The most significant factors associated with partial immunisation were found to be the socioeconomic and educational status of the children's fathers and itinerancy.
  • (7) People were crushed when their new concrete homes collapsed, a risk they would not have faced in their itinerant life on the grasslands.
  • (8) Ivermectin's ability to inhibit worm migration through the tissues is discussed, with respect to the role of itinerant males in the reproductive cycle of Onchocerca volvulus.
  • (9) An interview with Cameron Crowe done over the course of that year for Rolling Stone gives a flavour of the time, Bowie living an itinerant lifestyle around spooky, decadent LA, culminating in a megalomaniacal rant: “I believe that rock’n’roll is dangerous.
  • (10) Such a reasoning strongly denounces the psychosocial problems of women, but tends to forget the vulnerability of men which is nonetheless clearly evident in official statistics on suicide, dependence on alcohol and other drugs, violence and itinerancy.
  • (11) Wasn’t reform exactly what was offered to the masses of the Hijaz by Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, the mid-18th century itinerant preacher who allied with the House of Saud?
  • (12) She left Michigan when her daughter was 16 and became itinerant, sleeping in her truck, because unlike plastic or drywall, metal emitted no chemical fumes and was safe.
  • (13) Tadini, an Italian by birth, was an itinerant ophthalmologist living in the second half of the eighteenth century.
  • (14) Sharma, the itinerant vendor, laughed at the idea of a refrigerated barrow, or an air-conditioned home.
  • (15) Born Jeane Jordan, in Oklahoma, she was the daughter of an itinerant and unsuccessful oil prospector.
  • (16) There were no books in Darwish's own home and his first exposure to poetry was through listening to an itinerant singer on the run from the Israeli army.
  • (17) This surgery was frequently performed by itinerant mendicants, charlatans, and also by the more legitimate members of the surgical community living in the 13 states at the time of the Revolution.
  • (18) The main activities involve itinerant screening in the communities and group screening at the workplaces.
  • (19) Some Malians have sympathy with the Tuareg, who are dispersed across Saharan Africa , and whose culture and itinerant lifestyle are disappearing.
  • (20) Poor motivation, itinerancy and alcohol abuse were the most common factors causing difficulty.

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.