movement

/mˈuvmʌnt/

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Noun
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"
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the act of changing 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"
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a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
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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"
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a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic"
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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"
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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"
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a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement"
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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"
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the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
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the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"
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abduction ad blitz ad campaign adduction advance advancement advertising campaign agitation anti-war movement approach 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 of location charm campaign chase circumduction Civil Rights movement closing coast coming common front commotion consumerism conveyance crawl crustal movement cultural movement dart deflection deflexion deracination descent displacement disturbance ecumenism electioneering eurhythmics eurhythmy eurythmics eurythmy eversion everting evolutionary trend eye movement falun gong feminism feminist movement fetal movement Fighting French flicker flit flow flutter foetal movement following forward motion Free French fund-raising campaign fund-raising drive fund-raising effort gay lib gay liberation movement gesture glide gravitation haste headshake headshaking heave hurry hurrying inclination inclining insertion intermezzo introduction intromission inversion jerk jerking jitter jolt kick kicking kneel kneeling letting down locomotion lost cause lowering lunge lurch maneuver manoeuvre migration moving ridge oecumenism onward motion opening passage passing pedesis periodic motion periodic movement pitch pitching play political campaign political movement posing procession progress progression prostration pursual pursuit quiver quivering reach reaching rebound reciprocation reclining recoil reform reform movement religious movement repercussion retraction retroflection retroflexion return rise rotary motion rotation rush rushing saccade scherzo seek shift shifting shutting sitting slide slippage snap span speed speeding squat squatting squeeze squirm standing straddle stream stretch stroke sweep swing swinging tectonic movement throw toss transfer transferral translation transplant transplantation transplanting transport transportation travel traveling travelling troop movement turn turning twist undulation upending vacillation vibration war wave waver whirl wiggle wobble women''s lib women''s liberation movement wrench wriggle wring youth crusade youth movement Zionism Zionist movement
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