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| Shopping | The largest selection of MOVEMENT products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | muw'vmahnt |
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| Rhymes | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, and 658 more rhymes in ahnt... |
| Meaning | A change of position that does not entail a change of location. |
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| Examples | "movement is a sign of life" |
| Synonyms | motion, move, 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 |
| Meaning | A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. |
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| Synonyms | motion |
| Broader | happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event |
| Narrower | crustal movement, tectonic movement; approach, approaching; passing, passage; deflection, deflexion; bending, bend; change of location, travel; wave, undulation; jitter; periodic motion, periodic movement; heave; recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash; recoil, kick; seek; squeeze, wring; throw, stroke, cam stroke; turning, turn; twist, wrench; undulation; wave, moving ridge; wobble; whirl, commotion; Brownian movement, Brownian motion, pedesis |
| Verbs | move |
| Meaning | The act of changing location from one place to another. |
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| Examples | "the movement of people from the farms to the cities" |
| Synonyms | motion, move |
| 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 |
| Meaning | A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals. |
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| Examples | "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement" |
| Synonyms | social movement, front |
| Broader | social group |
| Narrower | Free French, Fighting French; artistic movement, art movement; Boy Scouts; Civil Rights movement; common front; cultural movement; ecumenism, oecumenism; falun gong; political movement; reform movement; religious movement; Zionism, Zionist movement |
| Meaning | A major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata. |
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| Examples | "the second movement is slow and melodic" |
| Part of | sonata |
| Broader | musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music |
| Narrower | intermezzo; scherzo |
| Meaning | A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end. |
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| Examples | "the movement to end slavery" |
| Synonyms | campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort |
| Broader | venture |
| Narrower | advertising campaign, ad campaign, ad blitz; anti-war movement; charm campaign; consumerism; campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign; fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort; feminist movement, feminism, women's liberation movement, women's lib; gay liberation movement, gay lib; lost cause; reform; war; youth movement, youth crusade |
| Meaning | An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object. |
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| Examples | "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement" |
| Synonyms | apparent motion, motion, apparent movement |
| Broader | optical illusion |
| Meaning | A euphemism for defecation. |
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| Examples | "he had a bowel movement" |
| Synonyms | bowel movement, bm |
| Broader | defecation, laxation, shitting |
| Meaning | A general tendency to change (as of opinion). |
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| Examples | "a broad movement of the electorate to the right" |
| Synonyms | drift, trend |
| Broader | inclination, disposition, tendency |
| Narrower | evolutionary trend; gravitation |
| Meaning | The driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock). |
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| Examples | "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement" |
| Part of | clock; watch, ticker |
| Broader | action, action mechanism |
| Meaning | The act of changing the location of something. |
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| Examples | "the movement of cargo onto the vessel" |
| Broader | change |
| Narrower | displacement, deracination; transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance; insertion, introduction, intromission; lowering, letting down; transplant, transplantation, transplanting; troop movement |
| Verbs | move |
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