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Originally Posted by NSFL
Motile. It's a biology word that has the exact same meaning as mobile, but only biology dorks use it. Why can't they just use mobile? Do they really need their own word?
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I used to wonder about this one too, and it pissed me off, so after you mentioned it, i checked out dictionary.com:
motile - moving or capable of moving spontaneously
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/motile
moblie - capable of moving or being moved readily
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mobile
I guess they could be different because of the "spontaneous" in there. Mobile seems to also apply to things that can be moved by external forces, whereas motile is for objects that move by internal forces. So, I guess motile is a more specific word for some things that are mobile.
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid, for example... sounds impressive, right? But have you ever seen what happens if you put something in acid? It dissolves! If we had all this acid in our cells, we'd all dissolve! So much for the Theory of Evolution, Check MATE!
