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UK
/mˈuːvmənt/
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[ US /ˈmuvmənt/ ]
[ US /ˈmuvmənt/ ]
NOUN
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a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
contributed to the war effort
the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant
he supported populist campaigns
they worked in the cause of world peace
the movement to end slavery - a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
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the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement -
a euphemism for defecation
he had a bowel movement -
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 -
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
he led the national liberation front
politicians have to respect a mass movement
he was a charter member of the movement -
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
the second movement is slow and melodic -
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 general tendency to change (as of opinion)
a broad movement of the electorate to the right
not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book -
the act of changing the location of something
the movement of cargo onto the vessel -
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
How To Use movement In A Sentence
- Rose of Sharon braced her body against the movements of the car in an effort to protect her fetus.
- Their movements have a likable jazzy syncopation, a bit of relaxed jive.
- I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
- 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.
- Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.
- The supplementary motor area has shown increased activity during learning of new movements.
- There's as much boogie-woogie in its movements as conga and tango.
- Other ocular signs include involuntary rhythmic movement of the eyeball.
- The feeling of movement - discussed as kinaesthesia - is married to a musical sequence, by which the shapes seem to converse in a kind of inner-skull environment.
- But physical discomforts during the third trimester, such as heartburn, leg cramps, fetal movement, shortness of breath and sinus congestion, can again interfere with sleep.
