Dictionary Definition
movement
Noun
1 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" [syn: motion, move, motility]
2 a natural event that involves a change in the
position or location of something [syn: motion]
3 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" [syn: motion,
move]
4 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" [syn: social
movement, front]
5 a major self-contained part of a symphony or
sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic"
6 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" [syn: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort]
7 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" [syn: apparent
motion, motion,
apparent
movement]
8 a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel
movement" [syn: bowel
movement, bm]
9 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" [syn: drift, trend]
10 the driving and regulating parts of a
mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with
a diamond movement"
11 the act of changing the location of something;
"the movement of cargo onto the vessel"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Old French movement (modern mouvement), from mediaeval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere ‘move’.Noun
- Physical motion between points in space.
- I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
- I saw some movement in that grass on the hill.
- I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
- italbrac horology for a clockwork, a clock, or a watch, a device that cuts time in equal portions.
- The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
- A trend in various
fields or social categories.
- The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
- A large division of a larger composition.
- An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
- Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
- The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight
- The movement on his cutter was devastating.
- An act of emptying the bowels.
Translations
physical motion
- Arabic: (ḥarakä)
- Bulgarian: движение
- Dutch: beweging
- Greek: κίνηση (kínisi)
- Hebrew:
- Kurdish: , ,
- Portuguese: movimento
- Romanian: mişcare
- Russian: движение
- Scots: muvement
- Slovene: gibanje , premikanje , premik
- Spanish: movimiento
- Urdu: (harkat)
device that cuts time in equal portions
impression of motion
trend in various fields or social categories
division of a larger musical composition
- Czech: věta
- Slovene: stavek
aircraft taking off or landing
deviation of a pitch
an act of emptying the bowels
See also
External links
Extensive Definition
A movement is a motion,
a change in position. Movement can also refer to:
In transportation
- Locomotion, active movement or travel
- Transport, the movement of people, goods, signals and information
In biology
seealso animal locomotion- Defecation, sometimes called a bowel movement
- Nastic movements, rapid, reversible responses to non-directional stimuli
In art
- Movement (music), a large division of a larger composition or musical form
- Movement (album), New Order's debut album, released in 1981
- The Movement (album), by Inspectah Deck
- The Movement (group),a techno act from Los Angeles California
- Movements (sacred dances), collected or authored by G. I. Gurdjieff
- The Movement (literature), writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, et. al
In social studies
- Art movement, a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal
- Cultural movement, change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work
- New religious movement, a religious, ethical, or spiritual grouping of fairly recent origin
- Social movement, a type of group action
In politics
- Political movement, a social roda jc working in the area of politics
- National Resistance Movement, a political organization in kis om roda
- Democratic Labor Party, an Australian political party also known as 'The Movement'
Other
- Movement (clockwork), all the main parts of a watch
- Wh-movement, a syntactic phenomenon
See also
- Motion (disambiguation page)
- Move
- Offset
- Travel
- Displacement
- Translation (geometry)
movement in Czech: Pohyb
movement in German: Bewegung
movement in French: Mouvement
movement in Korean: 운동
movement in Hebrew: תנועה
movement in Japanese: 運動
movement in Russian: Движение
movement in Slovak: Pohyb
movement in Slovenian: Gibanje
(razločitev)
movement in Swedish: Rörelse
movement in Chinese: 运动 (消歧义)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Alexandrine, American, Art Nouveau, Ashcan
school, BM, Barbizon, Bauhaus, Bolognese, British, Cobra, Dutch, Flemish, Fontainebleau, French, Italian, Mannerist, Milanese, Modenese, Momentum, Neapolitan, New York,
Paduan, Parisian, Phases, Pre-Raphaelite, Raphaelite, Reflex, Restany, Roman, Scottish, Sienese, Spur, Suprematism, The Ten,
Tuscan, Umbrian, Venetian, Washington, Zeitgeist, accent, accentuation, act, action, activeness, activism, activity, actuation, advance, age group, amotion, amphibious operations,
amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anagnorisis, anapest, angle, antispast, architectonics, architecture, argument, arsis, art schools, atmosphere, bacchius, background, band, bass passage, bat, battalion, bearing, beat, beck, beckon, bevy, bloody flux, body, body language, bourdon, bowel movement,
bridge, brigade, buffalo chips, bunch, burden, business, ca-ca, cabal, cadence, caesura, campaign, carriage, cast, catalexis, catastrophe, catharsis, cause, change, characterization,
charade, chironomy, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorus, clique, clockworks, coalition, coda, cohort, colon, color, combined operations,
commitment, communist
front, commutation,
company, complement, complication, contingent, continuity, contrivance, coprolite, coprolith, corps, coterie, counterpoint, course, covey, cow chips, cow flops, cow
pats, crap, cretic, crew, crossing, crowd, crusade, current, dactyl, dactylic hexameter,
dactylology,
deaf-and-dumb alphabet, decline, decrease, deed, defecation, dejection, delocalization, denouement, design, detachment, detail, development, device, diaeresis, diarrhea, dimeter, dingleberry, dipody, direction, displacement, division, dochmiac, doings, drift, drive, drive train, droppings, dry run, dumb show,
dung, dynamics, dynamism, dysentery, eclectic, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
elegiac pentameter, emphasis, episode, epitrite, evacuation, exposition, fable, faction, faith, falling action, feces, feculence, feminine caesura,
figure, fleet, flicker, flow, fluid operations, flux, folderol, foot, front, gang, gear, gears, genre, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language,
gimmick, glacial
movement, globe-trotting, going, goings-on, grass-roots
movement, great cause, ground swell, group, grouping, groupment, groups, guano, hand signal, harmonic
close, heptameter,
heptapody, heroic
couplet, hexameter,
hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter,
ictus, in-group, incident, increase, innards, interest, interlude, intermezzo, introductory
phrase, ionic, issue, jakes, jingle, journeying, junta, kinematics, kinesics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lientery, lifework, lilt, line, lines, local color, locomotion, logistics, loose bowels,
machinery, main
current, mainstream,
maneuver, maneuvers, manure, masculine caesura, mass
movement, measure,
mechanism, meter, metrical accent, metrical
foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, migration, militancy, military
operations, minor operations, mission, mob, mobilization, molossus, mood, mora, motif, motion, motivation, move, movements, moving, musical phrase, musical
sentence, mythos, night
soil, number, numbers, operation, operations, ordure, ornament, out-group, outfit, overseas operations,
pack, paeon, pantomime, part, party, passage, peer group, pencil, pentameter, pentapody, period, peripeteia, phalanx, phrase, plan, platoon, plein-air, plot, poise, political activism,
political front, popular front, pose, posse, posture, power train, principle, proceedings, proceleusmatic, progress, prosody, purgation, purge, pyrrhic, quantity, reason for being,
recognition,
refrain, regiment, relocation, remotion, removal, removement, resolution, response, restlessness, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rising
action, ritornello,
run, running, runs, salon, scheme, school, secondary plot, section, servomechanism, set, sewage, sewerage, shift, shit, shits, shrug, sign, sign language, signal, slant, spondee, sprung rhythm, squad, stable, staff work, stance, stanza, statement, stir, stirring, stool, story, strain, stream, stress, string, structure, style, subject, subplot, swing, switch, syzygy, tailpiece, team, tendency, tenor, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, the general
tendency, the grand style, the main course, thematic development,
theme, thesis, time spirit, tone, topic, tourism, touristry, traject, trajet, transfer, transit, travel, traveling, trend, tribe, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, troop, trots, troupe, turd, turistas, tutti, tutti passage, twist, unrest, variation, velocity, verse, voidance, war game, war plans,
watchworks, wheels, wheels within wheels,
wing, workings, works