movement
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(noun) the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel" |
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Related Words: change, conveyance, insertion, introduction, intromission, letting down, lowering, transfer, transferral, transplant, transplanting, transportation |
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(noun) 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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Related Words: action |
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(noun) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic" |
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Related Words: composition, intermezzo, largo, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music, scherzo |
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(noun) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
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Synonyms: motion |
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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) 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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Synonyms: front |
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Related Words: art movement, artistic movement, common front, cultural movement, political movement, reform movement, religious movement, social group |
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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: motion, move |
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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: motion, move |
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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 euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement" |
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Synonyms: bm, bowel movement |
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Related Words: defecation, shitting |
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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, motion |
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Related Words: optical illusion |
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort |
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Related Words: ad blitz, ad campaign, advertising campaign, campaigning, candidacy, candidature, ecumenical movement, electioneering, feminism, feminist movement, fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort, gay lib, gay liberation movement, political campaign, reform, venture, war, women's lib, women's liberation movement, youth crusade, youth movement |
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