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RELATED WORDS : anti-war movement apparent movement art movement artistic movement black september movement bowel movement brownian movement charismatic movement civil rights movement crustal movement cultural movement east turkestan islamic movement east turkistan islamic movement ecumenical movement eye movement feeling of movement feminist movement fetal movement foetal movement gay liberation movement islamic resistance movement labor movement lautaro youth movement lubavitch movement movement for revenge movement of holy warriors nonrapid eye movement nonrapid eye movement sleep oxford movement periodic movement political movement rapid eye movement rapid eye movement sleep reform movement religious movement romantic movement salafi movement sense of movement social movement tectonic movement trade union movement troop movement tupac amaru revolutionary movement women's liberation movement world tamil movement youth movement zionist movement

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun movement has 11 senses

• movement(n = noun.act) motility, motion, move - 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"
is a kind of change
has particulars: abduction, adduction, agitation, body english, circumduction, disturbance, fetal movement, foetal movement, dart, flit, gesture, headshake, headshaking, inclination, inclining, eversion, everting, inversion, inversion, upending, jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade, kick, kicking, kneel, kneeling, lurch, pitch, pitching, eye movement, opening, prostration, reach, reaching, stretch, reciprocation, reclining, retraction, retroflection, retroflexion, rotary motion, rotation, closing, shutting, sitting, posing, sitting, snap, squat, squatting, sweep, toss, quiver, quivering, vibration, wave, flicker, flutter, waver, standing, span, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy
Derived form verb move₃

• movement(n = noun.act) motion, move - 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"
is a kind of change
has particulars: approach, approaching, coming, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression, locomotion, travel, lunge, lurch, travel, traveling, travelling, chase, following, pursual, pursuit, ascending, ascension, ascent, rise, descent, swing, swinging, vacillation, return, coast, glide, slide, slippage, flow, stream, crawl, hurrying, speed, speeding, displacement, translation, shift, shifting, haste, hurry, rush, rushing, maneuver, manoeuvre, play, migration
Derived forms verb move₁, verb move₂, verb move₄

• movement(n = noun.event) motion - a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something; Array
is a kind of happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent
has particulars: crustal movement, tectonic movement, approach, approaching, passage, passing, deflection, deflexion, bend, bending, change of location, travel, undulation, wave, jitter, periodic motion, periodic movement, heave, backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion, kick, recoil, seek, squeeze, wring, cam stroke, stroke, throw, turn, turning, twist, wrench, undulation, moving ridge, wave, wobble, commotion, whirl, brownian motion, brownian movement, pedesis
Derived form verb move₁

• movement(n = noun.group) front, social movement - 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"
is a kind of social group
has particulars: fighting french, free french, art movement, artistic movement, boy scouts, civil rights movement, common front, cultural movement, ecumenism, oecumenism, falun gong, political movement, reform movement, religious movement, zionism, zionist movement

• movement(n = noun.communication) Array - a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic"
is a kind of composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music
has particulars: intermezzo, scherzo
is a part of sonata

• movement(n = noun.act) campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort - 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"
is a kind of venture
has particulars: ad blitz, ad campaign, advertising campaign, anti-war movement, charm campaign, consumerism, campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign, fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort, feminism, feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement, gay lib, gay liberation movement, lost cause, reform, war, youth crusade, youth movement

• movement(n = noun.phenomenon) apparent motion, apparent movement, motion - 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"
is a kind of optical illusion

• movement(n = noun.process) bm, bowel movement - a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement"
is a kind of defecation, laxation, shitting

• movement(n = noun.cognition) drift, trend - 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"
is a kind of disposition, inclination, tendency
has particulars: evolutionary trend, gravitation

• movement(n = noun.artifact) Array - the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
is a kind of action, action mechanism
is a part of clock, ticker, watch

• movement(n = noun.act) Array - the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"
is a kind of change
has particulars: deracination, displacement, conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation, insertion, introduction, intromission, letting down, lowering, transplant, transplantation, transplanting, troop movement
Derived form verb move₂

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THESAURUS

movement

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

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Action

N action, performance, doing perpetration, exercise, excitation, movement, operation, evolution, work, labor, praxis, execution, procedure, handicraft, business, agency, deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, tour de force, feat, exploit, achievement, handiwork, workmanship, manufacture, stroke of policy, actor, doing, acting, in action, in harness, on duty, in operation, in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of, red-handed, in flagrante delicto, while one's hand is in, action is eloquence, actions speak louder than words, actum aiunt ne agas, awake, arise, or be forever fall'n, dii pia facta vident, faire sans dire, fare fac, fronte capillata post est occasio calva, our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts, the great end of life is not knowledge but action, thought is the soul of act, vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir, we live in deeds not years.

Activity

N activity, briskness, liveliness, animation, life, vivacity, spirit, dash, energy, snap, vim, nimbleness, agility, smartness, quickness, velocity, alacrity, promptitude, despatch, dispatch, expedition, haste, punctuality, eagerness, zeal, ardor, perfervidum aingenium, empressement, earnestness, intentness, abandon, vigor, devotion, exertion, industry, assiduity, assiduousness, sedulity, laboriousness, drudgery, painstaking, diligence, perseverance, indefatigation, habits of business, vigilance, wakefulness, sleeplessness, restlessness, insomnia, pervigilium, insomnium, racketing, movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget, fidgetiness, flurry, officiousness, dabbling, meddling, interference, interposition, intermeddling, tampering with, intrigue, press of business, no sinecure, plenty to do, many irons in the fire, great doings, busy hum of men, battle of life, thick of the action, housewife, busy bee, new brooms, sharp fellow, sharp blade, devotee, enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody, pickthank, hummer, hustler, live man, rustler, active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee, lively, animated, vivacious, alive, alive and kicking, frisky, spirited, stirring, nimble, nimble as a squirrel, agile, light-footed, nimble-footed, featly, tripping, quick, prompt, yare, instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart, fast, quick as a lamplighter, expeditious, awake, broad awake, go-ahead, live wide-awake, forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest, resolute, industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking, intent, indefatigable, unwearied, unsleeping, never tired, plodding, hard-working, businesslike, workaday, bustling, restless, restless as a hyena, fussy, fidgety, pottering, busy, busy as hen with one chicken, working, at work, on duty, in harness, up in arms, on one's legs, at call, up and doing, up and stirring, busy, occupied, hard at work, hard at it, up to one's ears in, full of business, busy as a bee, busy as a one-armed paperhanger, meddling, meddlesome, pushing, officious, overofficious, intrigant, astir, stirring, agoing, afoot, on foot, in full swing, eventful, on the alert, actively, with life and spirit, with might and main &c, with haste, with wings, full tilt, in mediis rebus, Int, be alive, look alive, look sharp!, move on, push on!, keep moving!, go ahead!, stir your stumps!, age quod agis!, jaldi!, karo!, step lively!, carpe diem, seize the day, nulla dies sine linea, nec mora nec requies, the plot thickens, No sooner said than done, veni vidi vici, catch a weasel asleep, abends wird der Faule fleissig, dictum ac factum, schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Al, hard work in youth means soft rest in age, the busy hum of men.

Motion

N motion, movement, move, going, unrest, stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir, evolution, kinematics, telekinesis, step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity, clip, progress, locomotion, journey, voyage, transit, restlessness, mobility, movableness, motive power, laws of motion, mobilization, moving, in motion, transitional, motory, motive, shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet, restless, nomadic, erratic, under way, on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march, eppur si muove, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.

Music

N music, concert, strain, tune, air, melody, aria, arietta, piece of music, work, number, opus, sonata, rondo, rondeau, pastorale, cavatina, roulade, fantasia, concerto, overture, symphony, variations, cadenza, cadence, fugue, canon, quodlibet, serenade, notturno, dithyramb, opera, operetta, oratorio, composition, movement, stave, passamezzo, toccata, Vorspiel, instrumental music, full score, minstrelsy, tweedledum and tweedledee, band, orchestra, concerted piece, potpourri, capriccio, vocal music, vocalism, chaunt, chant, psalm, psalmody, hymn, song, canticle, canzonet, cantata, bravura, lay, ballad, ditty, carol, pastoral, recitative, recitativo, solfeggio, Lydian measures, slow music, slow movement, adagio, minuet, siren strains, soft music, lullaby, dump, dirge, pibroch, martial music, march, dance music, waltz, solo, duet, duo, trio, quartet, quartett, septett, part song, descant, glee, madrigal, catch, round, chorus, chorale, antiphon, antiphony, accompaniment, second, bass, score, bourdon, drone, morceau, terzetto, composer, musician, musical, instrumental, vocal, choral, lyric, operatic, harmonious, Wagnerian, adagio, largo, larghetto, andante, andantino, alla capella, maestoso, moderato, allegro, allegretto, spiritoso, vivace, veloce, presto, prestissimo, con brio, capriccioso, scherzo, scherzando, legato, staccato, crescendo, diminuendo, rallentando, affettuoso, obbligato, pizzicato, desto, in notes by distance made more sweet, like the faint exquisite music of a dream, music arose with its voluptuous swell, music is the universal language of mankind, music's golden tongue, the speech of angels, will sing the savageness out of a bear, music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.

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