[
US
/ˈmoʊʃən/
]
[ UK /mˈəʊʃən/ ]
[ UK /mˈəʊʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
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the act of changing location from one place to another
his move put him directly in my path
the movement of people from the farms to the cities
police controlled the motion of the crowd - the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
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a change of position that does not entail a change of location
gastrointestinal motility
an impatient move of his hand
the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise
movement is a sign of life -
a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
he made a motion to adjourn
she called for the question -
a state of change
they were in a state of steady motion -
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement
the cinema relies on apparent motion
VERB
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show, express or direct through movement
He gestured his desire to leave
How To Use motion In A Sentence
- Katherine spoke softly, sometimes hesitantly and sometimes in a rush, with a great deal more emotional inflection than the voice she uses when acting the cool professional.
- He was going back to the place where there was no feeling, because emotion and love were not allowed.
- We require a quorum of 100 students to proceed - and the motion lapses if it isn't obtained.
- The woman sitting next to me had counseled children facing severe emotional and physical abuse for 20 years.
- Having worked himself into this ridiculous kind of phrensy, which lasted, perhaps, from twenty to thirty seconds, he suddenly discontinued it, and suffered his features to relax into their natural form; but the motion of his head seemed to have so stupified him, as indeed it well might, that there remained an unusual vacancy and a drowsy stare upon his countenance for some time afterward. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
- There are few food topics that arouse as much emotion as fish and chips. Times, Sunday Times
- The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
- The SF - 36 dimension representing role limitations due to emotional problems was dichotomised for analysis, since the original scale contains only four values.
- The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast
- The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
