Custom vs. Mobile — What's the Difference?

A traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time

Able to move or be moved freely or easily

Regular dealings with a shop or business by customers

Relating to mobile phones, handheld computers, and similar technology

Made or done to order; custom-made

Able or willing to move easily or freely between occupations, places of residence, or social classes

A traditional practice or usual way of doing something followed by a social group or people.

An industrial city and port on the coast of southern Alabama; population 191,022 (est. 2008).

The tradition or body of such practices

Capable of moving or of being moved readily from place to place

A habitual practice of a person

Of or relating to wireless communication devices, such as cellphones.

Habitual manner or practice

Capable of moving or changing quickly from one state or condition to another

(Law) A common tradition or usage so long established that it has the force or validity of law.

Fluid; unstable

Habitual patronage, as of a store

Marked by the easy intermixing of different social groups

Duties or taxes imposed on imported and, less commonly, exported goods.

Moving relatively easily from one social class or level to another

(used with a sing. verb) The governmental agency authorized to collect these duties.

Tending to travel and relocate frequently

(used with a sing. verb) The place where goods and baggage entering a country are inspected by this agency

Flowing freely; fluid

Tribute, service, or rent paid by a feudal tenant to a lord.

(mōbēl′) A type of sculpture consisting of carefully equilibrated parts that move, especially in response to air currents.

Made to order

A mobile phone.

Specializing in the making or selling of made-to-order goods

Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.

Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor.

Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.

(collectively) The habitual patrons (i.e. customers) of a business; business support.

Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

(legal) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent. Compare prescription.

Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.

Traditional beliefs or rituals.

(biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

A custom (made-to-order) piece of art, pornography, etc.

(arts) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.

(obsolete) Familiar acquaintance; familiarity.

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Toll, tax, or tribute.

The internet accessed via mobile devices.

Created under particular specifications, specially to fit one's needs: specialized, unique, custom-made.

One who or moves, or who can move (e.g. to travel to a different place).

Own, personal, not standard or premade.

Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.

(archaic) Accustomed; usual.

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.

To make familiar; to accustom.

Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

To supply with customers.

Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.

To pay the customs of.

Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

To have a custom.

Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force.

Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.

Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.

Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.

The mob; the populace.

Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.

A form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air.

Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.

A river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay

The customary toll, tax, or tribute.

A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay

Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.

Sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

To make familiar; to accustom.

Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place);

To supply with customers.

(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently;

To have a custom.

Having transportation available

To pay the customs of.

Capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another;

Accepted or habitual practice

Affording change (especially in social status);

A specific practice of long standing

Money collected under a tariff

Habitual patronage;

Made according to the specifications of an individual