[
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
- He was going back to the place where there was no feeling, because emotion and love were not allowed.
- The woman sitting next to me had counseled children facing severe emotional and physical abuse for 20 years.
- 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.
- The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
- Mostly, however, she seems to be held in some kind of incommunicado status until they need a sound bite, and then they throw the power switch, download the text and out she spits it, with all the emotion of an automaton. Condi a Waste of Time
- High-frequency waves broadcast by the radar bounce off a person, scanning the in-and-out movement of the chest and more subtle, but also detectable, motion of the heartbeat against the chest wall.
- Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
- As they negotiated the park gates and turned into the crowded thoroughfare, Patience sat, stiffly erect; inside, her emotions churned. A RAKE'S VOW
- The 22-year-old arrived without huge fanfare or any of the media lobbying that normally accompanies the promotion of a fresh face.
- The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.