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Movement

Movement Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Movement? [n] the act of changing your location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" [n] the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel" [n] a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" [n] a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort" [n] the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement" [n] a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right" [n] a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic" [n] a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something [n] a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front" [n] an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement" [n] a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Movement: apparent motion \| apparent movement \| bm \| bowel movement \| campaign \| cause \| crusade \| drift \| drive \| effort \| front \| motility \| motion \| motion \| motion \| move \| social movement \| trend Related Terms \| Find terms related to Movement: accent \| accentuation \| act \| action \| activeness \| activism \| activity \| actuation \| advance \| age group \| Alexandrine \| American \| amotion \| amphibious operations \| amphibrach \| amphimacer \| anacrusis \| anagnorisis \| anapest \| angle \| antispast \| architectonics \| architecture \| argument \| arsis \| Art Nouveau \| art schools \| Ashcan school \| atmosphere \| bacchius \| background \| band \| Barbizon \| bass passage \| bat \| battalion \| Bauhaus \| bearing \| beat \| beck \| beckon \| bevy \| bloody flux \| BM \| body \| body language \| Bolognese \| bourdon \| bowel movement \| bridge \| brigade \| British \| buffalo chips \| bunch \| burden \| business \| cabal \| ca-ca \| cadence \| caesura \| campaign \| carriage \| cast \| catalexis \| catastrophe \| catharsis \| cause \| change \| characterization \| charade \| chironomy \| chloriamb \| chloriambus \| chorus \| clique \| clockworks \| coalition \| Cobra \| coda \| cohort \| colon \| color \| combined operations \| commitment \| communist front \| commutation \| company \| complement \| complication \| contingent \| continuity \| contrivance \| coprolite \| coprolith \| corps \| coterie \| counterpoint \| course \| covey \| cow chips \| cow flops \| cow pats \| crap \| cretic \| crew \| crossing \| crowd \| crusade \| current \| dactyl \| dactylic hexameter \| dactylology \| deaf-and-dumb alphabet \| decline \| decrease \| deed \| defecation \| dejection \| delocalization \| denouement \| design \| detachment \| detail \| development \| device \| diaeresis \| diarrhea \| dimeter \| dingleberry \| dipody \| direction \| displacement \| division \| dochmiac \| doings \| drift \| drive \| drive train \| droppings \| dry run \| dumb show \| dung \| Dutch \| dynamics \| dynamism \| dysentery \| eclectic \| elegiac \| elegiac couplet \| elegiac pentameter \| emphasis \| episode \| epitrite \| evacuation \| exposition \| fable \| faction \| faith \| falling action \| feces \| feculence \| feminine caesura \| figure \| fleet \| Flemish \| flicker \| flow \| fluid operations \| flux \| folderol \| Fontainebleau \| foot \| French \| front \| gang \| gear \| gears \| genre \| gesticulation \| gesture \| gesture language \| gimmick \| glacial movement \| globe-trotting \| going \| goings-on \| grass-roots movement \| great cause \| ground swell \| group \| grouping \| groupment \| groups \| guano \| hand signal \| harmonic close \| heptameter \| heptapody \| heroic couplet \| hexameter \| hexapody \| iamb \| iambic \| iambic pentameter \| ictus \| incident \| increase \| in-group \| innards \| interest \| interlude \| intermezzo \| introductory phrase \| ionic \| issue \| Italian \| jakes \| jingle \| journeying \| junta \| kinematics \| kinesics \| kinesipathy \| kinesis \| kinesitherapy \| kinetics \| lientery \| lifework \| lilt \| line \| lines \| local color \| locomotion \| logistics \| loose bowels \| machinery \| main current \| mainstream \| maneuver \| maneuvers \| Mannerist \| manure \| masculine caesura \| mass movement \| measure \| mechanism \| meter \| metrical accent \| metrical foot \| metrical group \| metrical unit \| metrics \| metron \| migration \| Milanese \| militancy \| military operations \| minor operations \| mission \| mob \| mobilization \| Modenese \| molossus \| Momentum \| mood \| mora \| motif \| motion \| motivation \| move \| movements \| moving \| musical phrase \| musical sentence \| mythos \| Neapolitan \| New York \| night soil \| number \| numbers \| operation \| operations \| ordure \| ornament \| outfit \| out-group \| overseas operations \| pack \| Paduan \| paeon \| pantomime \| Parisian \| part \| party \| passage \| peer group \| pencil \| pentameter \| pentapody \| period \| peripeteia \| phalanx \| Phases \| phrase \| plan \| platoon \| plein-air \| plot \| poise \| political activism \| political front \| popular front \| pose \| posse \| posture \| power train \| Pre-Raphaelite \| principle \| proceedings \| proceleusmatic \| progress \| prosody \| purgation \| purge \| pyrrhic \| quantity \| Raphaelite \| reason for being \| recognition \| Reflex \| refrain \| regiment \| relocation \| remotion \| removal \| removement \| resolution \| response \| Restany \| restlessness \| rhythm \| rhythmic pattern \| rising action \| ritornello \| Roman \| run \| running \| runs \| salon \| scheme \| school \| Scottish \| secondary plot \| section \| servomechanism \| set \| sewage \| sewerage \| shift \| shit \| shits \| shrug \| Sienese \| sign \| sign language \| signal \| slant \| spondee \| sprung rhythm \| Spur \| squad \| stable \| staff work \| stance \| stanza \| statement \| stir \| stirring \| stool \| story \| strain \| stream \| stress \| string \| structure \| style \| subject \| subplot \| Suprematism \| swing \| switch \| syzygy \| tailpiece \| team \| tendency \| tenor \| tetrameter \| tetrapody \| tetraseme \| the general tendency \| the grand style \| the main course \| The Ten \| thematic development \| theme \| thesis \| time spirit \| tone \| topic \| tourism \| touristry \| traject \| trajet \| transfer \| transit \| travel \| traveling \| trend \| tribe \| tribrach \| trimeter \| tripody \| triseme \| trochee \| troop \| trots \| troupe \| turd \| turistas \| Tuscan \| tutti \| tutti passage \| twist \| Umbrian \| unrest \| variation \| velocity \| Venetian \| verse \| voidance \| war game \| war plans \| Washington \| watchworks \| wheels \| wheels within wheels \| wing \| workings \| works \| Zeitgeist See Also \| abduction \| action \| action mechanism \| ad blitz \| ad campaign \| adduction \| advance \| advancement \| advertising campaign \| agitation \| anti-war movement \| approach \| approach \| approaching \| approaching \| art movement \| artistic movement \| ascending \| ascension \| ascent \| backlash \| bend \| bending \| body English \| Boy Scouts \| Brownian motion \| Brownian movement \| cam stroke \| campaigning \| candidacy \| candidature \| change \| change of location \| chase \| circumduction \| Civil Rights movement \| clock \| closing \| coming \| common front \| commotion \| composition \| consumerism \| conveyance \| crawl \| cultural movement \| dart \| defecation \| deflection \| deflexion \| deracination \| descent \| displacement \| disposition \| disturbance \| ecumenical movement \| electioneering \| eurhythmics \| eurhythmy \| eurythmics \| eurythmy \| eversion \| everting \| feminism \| feminist movement \| fetal movement \| flicker \| flit \| flow \| flutter \| foetal movement \| following \| forward motion \| fund-raising campaign \| fund-raising drive \| fund-raising effort \| gay lib \| gay liberation movement \| gesture \| glide \| gravitation \| happening \| harmonic motion \| haste \| headshake \| headshaking \| heave \| hurry \| hurrying \| inclination \| inclination \| inclining \| insertion \| intermezzo \| introduction \| intromission \| inversion \| jerk \| jerking \| jolt \| kick \| kick \| kicking \| kneel \| kneeling \| laxation \| letting down \| locomotion \| lost cause \| lowering \| lunge \| lurch \| maneuver \| manoeuvre \| migration \| moving ridge \| musical composition \| natural event \| nystagmus \| occurrence \| onward motion \| opening \| optical illusion \| opus \| passage \| passing \| pedesis \| piece \| piece of music \| pitch \| pitching \| play \| political campaign \| political movement \| posing \| progress \| progression \| prostration \| pursuit \| quiver \| quivering \| reach \| reaching \| rebound \| reciprocation \| reclining \| recoil \| reform \| reform movement \| religious movement \| repercussion \| retraction \| retroflection \| retroflexion \| return \| rise \| rotation \| rush \| rushing \| scherzo \| seek \| shift \| shifting \| shitting \| shutting \| sitting \| slide \| slippage \| social group \| sonata \| span \| speed \| speeding \| squat \| squatting \| squeeze \| squirm \| standing \| straddle \| stream \| stretch \| stroke \| stroke \| sweep \| swing \| swinging \| tendency \| throw \| ticker \| transfer \| transferral \| translation \| transplant \| transplantation \| transplanting \| transportation \| travel \| travel \| traveling \| travelling \| troop movement \| turn \| turning \| twist \| undulation \| upending \| vacillation \| venture \| vibration \| war \| watch \| wave \| wave \| waver \| whirl \| wiggle \| wobble \| women's lib \| women's liberation movement \| wrench \| wriggle \| wring \| youth crusade \| youth movement \| Zionism \| Zionist movement Movement In Webster's Dictionary \Move"ment\, n. [F. mouvement. See {Move}, and cf. {Moment}.] 1. The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement. 2. Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion. 3. Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement. 4. (Mus.) (a) The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece. ``Any change of time is a change of movement.'' --Busby. (b) One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony. 5. (Mech.) A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. {Febrille movement} (Med.), an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. {Movement cure}. (Med.) See {Kinesiatrics}. {Movement of the bowels}, an evacuation or stool; a passage or discharge. Syn: Motion. Usage: {Movement}, {Motion}. Motion expresses a general idea of not being at rest; movement is oftener used to express a definite, regulated motion, esp. a progress.

Movement Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Movement?

[n] the act of changing your location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"
[n] the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"
[n] a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"
[n] a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort"
[n] the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
[n] a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
[n] a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic"
[n] a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
[n] a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"
[n] an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
[n] a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement"

Movement In Webster's Dictionary

\Move"ment\, n. [F. mouvement. See {Move}, and cf.
{Moment}.]
1. The act of moving; change of place or posture;
   transference, by any means, from one situation to another;
   natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as,
   the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the
   movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement.

2. Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

3. Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or
   sudden, movement.

4. (Mus.)
   (a) The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a
       piece. ``Any change of time is a change of movement.''
       --Busby.
   (b) One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in
       itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a
       larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a
       symphony.

5. (Mech.) A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a
   definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the
   wheelwork of a watch.

{Febrille movement} (Med.), an elevation of the body
   temperature; a fever.

{Movement cure}. (Med.) See {Kinesiatrics}.

{Movement of the bowels}, an evacuation or stool; a passage
   or discharge.

Syn: Motion.

Usage: {Movement}, {Motion}. Motion expresses a general idea
       of not being at rest; movement is oftener used to
       express a definite, regulated motion, esp. a progress.

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