movement
Nouns
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(n) 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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(n) 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
- (n) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something motion,
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(n) 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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(n) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
- the second movement is slow and melodic
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(n) 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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(n) 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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(n) a euphemism for defecation
- he had a bowel movement
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(n) 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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(n) 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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(n) the act of changing the location of something
- the movement of cargo onto the vessel