Main entry: motion, move, movement
Definition: the act of changing location from one place to another
Usage: 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
Main entry: movement
Definition: the act of changing the location of something
Usage: the movement of cargo onto the vessel
Main entry: motility, motion, move, movement
Definition: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
Usage: the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise; movement is a sign of life; an impatient move of his hand; gastrointestinal motility
Main entry: movement, campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort
Definition: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
Usage: 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
Main entry: movement
Definition: the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
Usage: it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement
Main entry: trend, movement, drift
Definition: a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
Usage: not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book; a broad movement of the electorate to the right
Main entry: movement
Definition: a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
Usage: the second movement is slow and melodic
Definition: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
Main entry: social movement, movement, front
Definition: a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
Usage: he was a charter member of the movement; politicians have to respect a mass movement; he led the national liberation front
Main entry: apparent motion, apparent movement, motion, movement
Definition: an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
Usage: the cinema relies on apparent motion; the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement
Main entry: bm, bowel movement, movement
Definition: a euphemism for defecation
Usage: he had a bowel movement