Mobile vs. Tablet — What's the Difference?

Able to move or be moved freely or easily

A slab or plaque, as of stone or ivory, with a surface that is intended for or bears an inscription.

Relating to mobile phones, handheld computers, and similar technology

A thin sheet or leaf, used as a writing surface.

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

A set of such leaves fastened together, as in a book.

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

A pad of writing paper glued together along one edge.

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

A lightweight, portable computer having a touchscreen as the method by which data is input.

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

A small flat pellet of medication to be taken orally.

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

A small flat cake of a prepared substance, such as soap.

Fluid; unstable

To inscribe on a tablet.

Marked by the easy intermixing of different social groups

To form into a tablet.

Moving relatively easily from one social class or level to another

A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.

Tending to travel and relocate frequently

(religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.

Flowing freely; fluid

A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.

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

A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.

A mobile phone.

(computing) A graphics tablet.

Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

(computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.

Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

(Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.

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

(rail) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.

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

(transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

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

A small table or flat surface.

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

A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

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

Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

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A kind of pocket memorandum book.

The internet accessed via mobile devices.

A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

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

A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; - called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

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

A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription

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 number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

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

A small flat compressed cake of some substance;

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

A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

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

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

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

The mob; the populace.

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.

A river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay

A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay

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

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

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

Having transportation available

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

Affording change (especially in social status);