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Meaning of Movement in English
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Movement
see synonyms of movementNoun
1. motility, motion, move, movement
a change of position that does not entail a change of location
Example Sentences:'the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise''movement is a sign of life''an impatient move of his hand''gastrointestinal motility'
the act of changing location from one place to another
Example Sentences:'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'
4. front, movement, social movement
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
Example Sentences:'he was a charter member of the movement''politicians have to respect a mass movement''he led the national liberation front'
5. movement
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
Example Sentences:'the second movement is slow and melodic'
6. campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort, movement
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
Example Sentences:'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'
7. apparent motion, apparent movement, motion, movement
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
Example Sentences:'the cinema relies on apparent motion''the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement'
8. bm, bowel movement, movement
a euphemism for defecation
Example Sentences:'he had a bowel movement'
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
Example Sentences:'not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book''a broad movement of the electorate to the right'
10. movement
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
Example Sentences:'it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement'
11. movement
the act of changing the location of something
Example Sentences:'the movement of cargo onto the vessel'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Movement
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Movement
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Movement
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