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Movement   /mˈuvmənt/   Listen
Movement

noun
1.
A change of position that does not entail a change of location.  Synonyms: motility, motion, move.  "Movement is a sign of life" , "An impatient move of his hand" , "Gastrointestinal motility"
2.
The act of changing location from one place to another.  Synonyms: motion, move.  "The movement of people from the farms to the cities" , "His move put him directly in my path"
3.
A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something.  Synonym: motion.
4.
A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.  Synonyms: front, social movement.  "Politicians have to respect a mass movement" , "He led the national liberation front"
5.
A major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata.
6.
A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.  Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort.  "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"
7.
An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object.  Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, motion.  "The succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
8.
A euphemism for defecation.  Synonyms: bm, bowel movement.
9.
A general tendency to change (as of opinion).  Synonyms: drift, trend.  "A broad movement of the electorate to the right"
10.
The driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock).
11.
The act of changing the location of something.



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"Movement" Quotes from Famous Books



... after the schooner entered the inlet before she was got over the bulkhead into the open sound. And still ten days more were destined to slip by before any general movement against the enemy was attempted by the fleet. In the mean while the troops confined on shipboard resorted to a thousand devices for passing away the time. There was dancing, there was card-playing, there was singing; and many new games were invented for the occasion. Frank learned ...
— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge
... am interested in both events. You may say, like Burke, you were not 'coaxed and dandled into eminence' but have fought your way gallantly, shown your passport at every barrier, and been always a step in advance, without a single retrograde movement. Every one wishes to advance rapidly, but when the desired position is gained, it is far more easily maintained by him whose ascent has been gradual, and whose favour is founded not on the unreasonable expectations ...
— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various
... however, the Duke casually and in the most good-humoured way happened to say to me that I, of course, no doubt realised that if people assented to my motion, he would have to resign as President of our Association. I was, horror-struck, for to have lost him would have meant utter destruction for our movement,—the movement, that is, to prevent the Tariff Reformers running away with the Unionist Party. I said at once that I would most gladly withdraw my proposal, and expressed my complete confidence ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey
... and remarking in these beings a spontaneous movement like his own, he supposed this movement directed by a will,—an intelligence of the nature of his own; and hence, by induction, he formed a new reasoning. Having experienced that certain practices towards his fellow creatures had the effect to modify their affections and direct their ...
— The Ruins • C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney
... another has had three ribs broken by a sheet in her bed having been crumpled; a third has held her head on one side for six weeks owing to one half of her head having three more hairs on it than the other; a fourth has broken a blood-vessel by a slight movement, and the rupture cannot be healed without ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton


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