Difference between dappled and mobile

dappled

Definitions

adjective

  1. having spots or patches of color

Examples

Many dictionaries of Neapolitan dialect from the late eighteenth century onward tell us that pizza, at its simplest, was merely a generic word for all kinds of pies, and for what would be called focaccia or schiacciata elsewhere in Italy, that is, a flat piece of dough dappled with fat or oil and cooked quickly in a hot oven.

The woodland floor is dappled with sunlight, which makes it difficult to tell what is a mushroom and what is just a dead leaf.

Can you see high hills dappled in snow from your apartment or damp basement flat?

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mobile

Definitions

adjective

  1. affording change (especially in social status)
  2. migratory
  3. moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
  4. capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
  5. having transportation available

noun

  1. sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

Examples

A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.

You can do a lot of that from our facility, but eventually a mobile system to inspect parts on wing is where we are going to be positioned.

Use of a University-owned mobile telephone and mobile telephone airtime service is intended for official University business.

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