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Motion   /mˈoʊʃən/   Listen
Motion

noun
1.
The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals.  Synonym: gesture.
2.
A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something.  Synonym: movement.
3.
A change of position that does not entail a change of location.  Synonyms: motility, move, movement.  "Movement is a sign of life" , "An impatient move of his hand" , "Gastrointestinal motility"
4.
A state of change.
5.
A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote.  Synonym: question.  "She called for the question"
6.
The act of changing location from one place to another.  Synonyms: move, movement.  "The movement of people from the farms to the cities" , "His move put him directly in my path"
7.
An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object.  Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, movement.  "The succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
verb
(past & past part. motioned; pres. part. motioning)
1.
Show, express or direct through movement.  Synonyms: gesticulate, gesture.



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"Motion" Quotes from Famous Books



... all but over, my fingers were feeling their way, my prick between them, every motion she made to help herself, helped me; I held her down with force until I felt my penis was on the notch, but as it touched the slippery sides of the red orifice, the first pang of pleasure came and my sperm spat on to it. With a furious thrust I plunged ...
— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous

... precipice; but I did not see him as I peered over. "He must have gone for water," thought I, and I ran to the corner of the rock, where the precipice was much deeper, and looking over, I perceived him lying down below without motion or apparent life. I had, then, judged rightly. I sat down by the side of the pool of water quite overpowered; last night I had been planning how I should destroy him, and now he lay dead before me without my being guilty of the crime. "Vengeance ...
— The Little Savage • Captain Marryat

... of which caused her the most severe shock, was that concerning the nobility. On the morning of our first day afloat the passenger lists were distributed. Hephzibah was early on deck. Fortunately neither she nor I were in the least discomfited by the motion of the ship, then or at any time. We proved to be good sailors; Hephzibah declared ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln

... shrill screaming of the rusty iron, as the avenue-gate revolved on its hinges; again came the sound of wheels in rapid motion. ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume III. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... from suffocation, or from the stoppage of some important organ, the whole strength of his enormous frame is set in motion, for a few seconds, when his convulsions throw him into a hundred different contortions of the most violent description, by which the sea is beaten into foam, and boats are sometimes crushed ...
— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders


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