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adjective

Moving adj.

Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power.

Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal. "I sang an old moving story."

Moving force (Mech.), a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body.

Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans); so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion.

noun

Moving n. The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of changing one's dwelling place or place of business.

Moving day, a day when one moves; esp., a day when a large number of tenants change their dwelling place.

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Etymology of 'Moving'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moving" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the day after. But then— it was Friday, the 2d of August—he saw advancing towards him his friend Desfontaines, who made a sign for him to come to him. Being in a sitting posture and under the influence of his swoon, he made another sign to the apparition, moving on his seat to make place ...

— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier

... likewise remarkable that the British have almost dropped out of the running in recent times, as far as origination is concerned. Is this fact also typical, a small symptom of Jeshurun's general fatness? Does it reflect a lesser degree of nimbleness in moving with the spirit of ...

— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark

... and doleful air; I sang an old and moving story— An old rude song, that suited well That ruin ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various

... the old rebel's story,—to kneel by the triple stone that says how the three Worthylakes, father, mother, and young daughter, died on the same day and lie buried there; a mystery; the subject of a moving ballad, by the late BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, as may be seen in his autobiography, which will explain the secret of the triple gravestone; though the old philosopher has made a mistake, unless the stone ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

... blackness; but after we had groped for a few steps down the familiar garden path, our eyes became accustomed to the subdued light of the soft summer night. Although heavy banks of cloud,—the general precursors of wind,—were moving slowly between us and the heavens, the stars shone down through their rifts, and on the western horizon a faint yellowish tinge told us that daylight was in no hurry to leave our quiet valley. The mountain streams ...

— Station Amusements • Lady Barker

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