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(noun) the act of changing your 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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Synonyms: move, movement |
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Related Words: abduction, adduction, advance, advancement, approach, approaching, ascending, ascension, ascent, change, chase, coming, crawl, descent, displacement, flow, following, forward motion, glide, haste, hastening, hurry, hurrying, locomotion, lunge, lurch, maneuver, manoeuvre, onward motion, play, progress, progression, pursuit, return, rise, rush, rushing, shift, shifting, slide, speed, speeding, stream, swing, swinging, translation, travel, traveling, travelling |
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(noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex movements of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; |
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Synonyms: move, movement |
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Related Words: agitation, body English, change, circumduction, closing, disturbance, eversion, everting, flicker, flutter, gesture, headshake, headshaking, inclination, inclining, inversion, jerk, jerking, jolt, kick, kicking, kneel, kneeling, lurch, opening, pitch, pitching, posing, prostration, quiver, quivering, reach, reaching, reciprocation, reclining, retroflection, retroflexion, rotation, shutting, sitting, span, squat, squatting, squirm, standing, straddle, stretch, stroke, sweep, turn, twist, upending, vibration, wave, waver, wiggle, wriggle |
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(noun) a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question" |
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Synonyms: question |
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Related Words: proposal |
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(noun) a state of change; "they were in a state of steady motion" |
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Related Words: flow, palpitation, precession, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, state, stream, trembling, tremor, vibration |
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Antonyms: motionlessness |
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(noun) the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals |
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Synonyms: gesticulation, gesture |
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Related Words: V sign, beck, bow, bowing, facial expression, facial gesture, flourish, nod, obeisance, previous question, shrug, sign, sign of the cross, visual communication, wafture, wave, waving |
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(noun) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
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Synonyms: movement |
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Related Words: Brownian motion, Brownian movement, approach, approaching, backlash, bend, bending, cam stroke, change of location, commotion, deflection, deflexion, happening, harmonic motion, heave, kick, moving ridge, natural event, occurrence, passage, passing, pedesis, rebound, recoil, repercussion, seek, squeeze, stroke, throw, travel, turn, turning, twist, wave, whirl, wobble, wrench, wring |
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, movement |
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Related Words: optical illusion |
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(verb) show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his desire to leave" |
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Synonyms: gesticulate, gesture |
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Related Words: acclaim, applaud, beckon, bless, bow, bow down, clap, communicate, cross oneself, extend, hold out, intercommunicate, nod, put out, shrug, sign, spat, stretch forth, stretch out, wave, wink |
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