Associations to the word «Motile»

Wiktionary

MOTILE, adjective. (biology) Having the power to move spontaneously.
MOTILE, adjective. Producing motion.
MOTILE, adjective. (psychology) Of or relating to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position.
MOTILE, noun. (psychology) A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc.

Dictionary definition

MOTILE, noun. One whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action.
MOTILE, adjective. (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne