DICTOMETER

MOVEMENT

(movement, movimiento, bevegelse, sig)

1. Synonyms:
   • Motion
   • Movement
   • Move
   • Motility
   Definitions:
   • a change of position that does not entail a change of location
   Examples:
   • The reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise
   • Movement is a sign of life
   • An impatient move of his hand
   • Gastrointestinal motility
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Motion
   • Movement
   • Move
   Definitions:
   • the act of changing location from one place to another
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Movement
   • Motion
   Definitions:
   • a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Movement
   • Social movement
   • Front
   Definitions:
   • a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
   Examples:
   • He was a charter member of the movement
   • Politicians have to respect a mass movement
   • He led the national liberation front
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Movement
   Definitions:
   • a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
   Examples:
   • The second movement is slow and melodic
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Campaign
   • Cause
   • Crusade
   • Drive
   • Movement
   • Effort
   Definitions:
   • a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
   Examples:
   • 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. Synonyms:
   • Apparent motion
   • Motion
   • Apparent movement
   • Movement
   Definitions:
   • an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
   Examples:
   • The cinema relies on apparent motion
   • The succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Bowel movement
   • Movement
   • Bm
   Definitions:
   • a euphemism for defecation
   Examples:
   • He had a bowel movement
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Drift
   • Trend
   • Movement
   Definitions:
   • a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
   Examples:
   • Not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
   • A broad movement of the electorate to the right
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Movement
    Definitions:
    • the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
    Examples:
    • It was an expensive watch with a diamond movement
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Movement
    Definitions:
    • the act of changing the location of something
    Examples:
    • The movement of cargo onto the vessel