Difference between music and mobile
Definitions
noun
- (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)
- punishment for one's actions
- an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
- any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds
- musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)
Examples
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
Definitions
adjective
- affording change (especially in social status)
- migratory
- moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
- capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
- having transportation available
noun
- 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.
The report said mobile phone networks worldwide were likely to have 1.6 billion subscribers by the end of this year.
With automobile insurance, for example, an insurance company accepts part of the risk that you will be involved in a car accident.
