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move > 21 senses
NOUN	1	move	The act of deciding to do something
	2	move, relocation	The act of changing your residence or place of business
	3	move, motion, movement, motility	A change of position that does not entail a change of location
	4	move, motion, movement	The act of changing location from one place to another
	5	move	(game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game
VERB	1	move, travel, go, locomote	Change location
	2	move, displace	Cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
	3	move	Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
	4	move	Change residence, affiliation, or place of employment
	5	move, go, proceed	Follow a procedure or take a course
	6	move, be active	Be in a state of action
	7	move	Go or proceed from one point to another
	8	move, act	Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
	9	move, affect, impress, strike	Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
	10	move, motivate, actuate, propel, prompt, incite	Give an incentive for action
	11	move	Arouse sympathy or compassion in
	12	move	Dispose of by selling
	13	move, go, run	Progress by being changed
	14	move	Live one's life in a specified environment
	15	move, go	Have a turn
	16	move, make a motion	Propose formally

move > pronunciation
Sounds	muw'v
Rhymes	approve, behoove, countermove, and 7 more rhymes in uwv...

move > noun 1, act
Meaning	The act of deciding to do something.
Examples	"he didn't make a move to help"; "his first move was to hire a lawyer"
Broader	decision, determination, conclusion
Narrower	demarche; maneuver, manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre
Verbs	move; move

move > noun 2, act
Meaning	The act of changing your residence or place of business.
Examples	"they say that three moves equal one fire"
Synonyms	relocation
Broader	change
Narrower	flit
Verbs	move

move > noun 3, act
Meaning	A change of position that does not entail a change of location.
Examples	"movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"
Synonyms	motion, movement, motility
Broader	change
Narrower	abduction; adduction; agitation; body English; circumduction; disturbance; fetal movement, foetal movement; flit, dart; gesture; headshake, headshaking; inclination, inclining; inversion, eversion, everting; 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; rotation, rotary motion; shutting, closing; sitting; sitting, posing; snap; squat, squatting; sweep; toss; vibration, quiver, quivering; wave; waver, flutter, flicker; standing; straddle, span; stroke; wiggle, wriggle, squirm; eurythmy, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurhythmics
Verbs	move

move > noun 4, act
Meaning	The act of changing location from one place to another.
Examples	"the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"
Synonyms	motion, movement
Broader	change
Narrower	approach, approaching, coming; progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion; locomotion, travel; lurch, lunge; travel, traveling, travelling; pursuit, chase, pursual, following; rise, ascent, ascension, ascending; descent; swing, swinging, vacillation; return; slide, glide, coast; slippage; flow, stream; crawl; speed, speeding, hurrying; translation, displacement; shift, shifting; haste, hurry, rush, rushing; maneuver, manoeuvre, play; migration
Verbs	move; move

move > noun 5, act
Meaning	(game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game.
Category	game
Broader	turn, play
Narrower	chess move
Verbs	move

move > verb 1, motion
Meaning	Change location. Move, travel, or proceed.
Pattern	Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP
Model	The cars move down the avenue
Examples	"The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"
Synonyms	travel, go, locomote
Contrary	stay in place
Similar to	move, displace
Caused by	travel, trip, jaunt
See also	move out; move on; move back
Narrower	go around, spread, circulate; carry; ease; whish; float; swap; seek; whine; fly; ride; come; ghost; betake oneself; pass over, overfly; travel; wend; do; raft; get around, get about; repair, resort; cruise; travel, journey; come, come up; round; trundle; push; travel purposefully; swing; roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond; walk, take the air; weave, wind, thread, meander, wander; forge, spurt, spirt; crawl, creep; scramble; slither, slide; wheel, roll; glide; bounce, jounce; breeze; float, drift, be adrift, blow; play; float, swim; walk; turn, move around; circle; slice into, slice through; stray, err, drift; run; step; drive, motor; automobile; ski; fly, wing; steamer, steam; tram; taxi; ferry; caravan; ride, sit; prance; swim; rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise; ascend, go up; descend, fall, go down, come down; fall; zigzag, crank; follow, travel along; advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on; withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back; retrograde; proceed, go forward, continue; back; pan; follow; precede, lead; pursue, follow; return, go back, get back, come back; derail, jump; flock; accompany; billow; circulate; circle, circulate; angle; pass, go through, go across; travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass; travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip; speed; zoom; drive; rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along; trail, shack; shuttle; hiss, whoosh; whisk; career; circuit; lance; outflank, go around; propagate; draw; transfer, change; swash; pace; step, tread; step; hurtle; retreat; whistle; island hop; plow, plough; lurch; sift; fall; drag; run; bang; precess; travel, move around; ride; snowshoe; beetle
Entailed by	steer; reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain; miss
Nouns	movement; mover; motion, movement, move

move > verb 2, motion
Meaning	Cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
Model	They move the car down the avenue
Examples	"Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
Synonyms	displace
Similar to	travel, go, move, locomote
Cause to	move
Narrower	mobilize, mobilise, circulate; relocate; dislocate, luxate, splay, slip; translate; station, post, base, send, place; agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up; transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise; funnel; brandish, flourish, wave; pull, draw, force; transport, carry; tug; disarrange; expel, eject, chuck out, exclude, throw out, kick out, turf out, boot out, turn out; put, set, place, pose, position, lay; engage, mesh, lock, operate; propel, impel; launch, set in motion; wind, wrap, roll, twine; unwind, wind off, unroll; wedge, squeeze, force; work; spill, shed, disgorge; spill, slop, splatter; unseat; separate, disunite, divide, part; uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out; press down, depress; lift; flick, ruffle, riffle; work; take back; center, centre; pump; scan; jar, shake up, bump around; dandle; roll, revolve; push, force; rock, sway; fluctuate; pulse; shift, dislodge, reposition; glide; stir; play; overturn, tip over, turn over, upset, knock over, bowl over, tump over; transport, send, ship; send, direct; transport; saltate; lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down; lift, raise; raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up; drop; sink; advance, bring forward; chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off; transfer, shift; displace, force out; herd, crowd; circulate; circulate, pass around, pass on, distribute; rout out, drive out, force out, rouse; drive; race, rush; woosh, whoosh; pour; exteriorize, bring outside; upstage; swing; turn, turn over; turn; turn; slide; run; whistle; beat, flap; singsong; hustle; wash; rake; blow; drag; pull, draw; lateralize; translate; hit, strike; change hands, change owners; transfer; expel, throw out, kick out
Entailed by	kick; bear; transfer
Adjectives	movable, moveable; movable; movable, moveable; movable
Nouns	mover; movement, move; movement; mover

move > verb 3, motion
Meaning	Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
Examples	"He moved his hand slightly to the right"
Contrary	stand still
Caused by	mobilize, mobilise, circulate; move, displace; take out, move out, remove
See also	move over
Narrower	move involuntarily, move reflexively; quicken; stretch, stretch out; snap, click, flick; flex, bend; spread, propagate; reach, reach out; putter, potter, potter around, putter around; dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe; drop back; hit the dirt, hit the deck; gravitate; fly; move over, give way, give, ease up, yield; cut to; lurch, pitch, shift; jolt, jar; duck; bob; wallow, welter; writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist; wobble, coggle; sidle, sashay; sidle; sweep, sail; brush, sweep; wamble, waggle; chop; reciprocate; move back and forth; nod; pulsate, beat, quiver; beat, pound, thump; teeter, seesaw, totter; buck, jerk, hitch; cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch; careen, wobble, shift, tilt; churn, boil, moil, roil; steal, slip; shake, agitate; vibrate; jerk, twitch; flip, twitch; snap, click; stir, shift, budge, agitate; arouse, stir; dance; stumble, trip; falter, waver; roll, undulate, flap, wave; mill, mill about, mill around; turn; startle, jump, start; mope, mope around; hop on, mount, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on, bestride; climb; strike out; jump, leap, bound, spring; bolt; get down; assume, take, strike, take up; seesaw; displace; exit, go out, get out, leave; separate, part, split; diverge; list, lean; whirl, tumble, whirl around; close, come together; bustle, bustle about, hustle; fidget; linger, dawdle; flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail; lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust; swoop; flow, flux; run, flow, feed, course; flurry; streak; heave; crash; thunder; snap; beat, flap; fling; hop; turn; dodge; dodge; throw; make way; dance; grab; cut; close; jump, leap, jump off
Entailed by	exercise, work out; bear; transplant, graft; push, force
Nouns	motion, movement, move

move > verb 4, motion
Meaning	Change residence, affiliation, or place of employment.
Pattern	Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
Model	Sam and Sue move
Examples	"We moved from Idaho to Nebraska"; "The basketball player moved from one team to another"
Contrary	stay, stick, stick around, stay put
Caused by	evacuate
Narrower	relocate; move in; move out; evacuate; migrate, transmigrate; migrate
Entailed by	settle, locate
Nouns	move; mover; movement

move > verb 5, social
Meaning	Follow a procedure or take a course.
Pattern	Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s PP
Synonyms	go, proceed
Broader	act, move
Narrower	work; venture, embark; steamroller, steamroll

move > verb 6, body
Meaning	Be in a state of action.
Pattern	Somebody ----s
Synonyms	be active
Contrary	rest
Narrower	bestir, rouse
Nouns	motion; mover; move

move > verb 7, change
Meaning	Go or proceed from one point to another.
Pattern	Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP
Examples	"the debate moved from family values to the economy"
Broader	change, alter, vary
Narrower	step; scroll; sink, pass, lapse

move > verb 8, social
Meaning	Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).
Pattern	Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
Examples	"We must move quickly"
Synonyms	act
Contrary	refrain, forbear
Caused by	incite, instigate, set off, stir up; direct; coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force; compel, oblige, obligate
Narrower	alternate, take turns; finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish; rush, hasten, hurry, look sharp, festinate; interrupt, disturb; react, respond; go ahead, plow ahead; attack, aggress; force; create; come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore, come out; reward, repay, pay back; satisfice, staisfise; maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre; dispatch; evade; race; use; play it by ear; play; deal; partner; exert; egotrip; reciprocate; go, proceed, move; come close; perform; make bold, dare, presume; prosecute, engage, pursue; act on; interact; react, oppose; take time by the forelock; coact; volunteer, offer; get around to; dally, toy, play, flirt; set about, go about, approach; participate, take part; misbehave, misconduct, misdemean; condescend, stoop, lower oneself; behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry; behave, comport; try, seek, attempt, essay, assay; woo, court, romance, solicit; court; dare; effect; antagonize, antagonise, counteract; anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter; prosecute; perpetrate, commit, pull; rampage; cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage; condescend, deign, descend; condescend; take care; lord it over, queen it over, put on airs, act superior; stampede; make a point, make sure; repeat, take over; surprise; sneak; play; take; guard; begin, start; go off half-cocked, go off at half-cock; wait, hold off, hold back; continue, go on, proceed, go along, keep; do well, had best; continue; continue, persist in
Nouns	move

move > verb 9, emotion
Meaning	Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.
Pattern	Something ----s somebody
Model	The bad news will move him; The good news will move her; The performance is likely to move Sue
Synonyms	affect, impress, strike
Similar to	motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite; hit, strike, come to
Cause to	feel, experience
Narrower	infect; surprise; impress, ingrain, instill; awaken; engrave; strike dumb; zap; jar; hit home, strike home, strike a chord, strike a note; smite; cloud; pierce; impress; sweep away, sweep off; disturb, upset, trouble; touch, stir; move; sadden; alienate

move > verb 10, creation
Meaning	Give an incentive for action.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Model	They move him to write the letter
Examples	"This moved me to sacrifice my career"
Synonyms	motivate, actuate, propel, prompt, incite
Similar to	affect, impress, move, strike; move
Broader	cause, do, make

move > verb 11, emotion
Meaning	Arouse sympathy or compassion in.
Pattern	Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody
Examples	"Her fate moved us all"
Similar to	motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite
Broader	affect, impress, move, strike

move > verb 12, possession
Meaning	Dispose of by selling.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Examples	"The chairman of the company told the salesmen to move the computers"
Broader	sell

move > verb 13, change
Meaning	Progress by being changed.
Pattern	Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP
Synonyms	go, run
Broader	change

move > verb 14, social
Meaning	Live one's life in a specified environment.
Pattern	Somebody ----s PP
Examples	"she moves in certain circles only"
Broader	live

move > verb 15, competition
Meaning	Have a turn. Make one's move in a game.
Pattern	Somebody ----s
Model	Sam and Sue move
Synonyms	go
Similar to	move, make a motion
Narrower	bluff, bluff out; stalemate; castle; serve; open; draw, cast; trump, ruff; manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate; check
Entails	play
Entailed by	check
Nouns	move

move > verb 16, communication
Meaning	Propose formally. In a debate or parliamentary meeting.
Pattern	Somebody ----s on something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Synonyms	make a motion
Similar to	move, go
Broader	propose, suggest, advise
Nouns	mover

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