movement
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a change of position that does not entail a change of location
the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise
Types & categories
- change
- abduction
- adduction
- agitation
- body English
- circumduction
- disturbance
- fetal movement
- flit
- gesture
- headshake
- inclining
- everting
- upending
- jerking
- kicking
- kneel
- pitching
- eye movement
- opening
- prostration
- reaching
- reciprocation
- reclining
- retraction
- retroflection
- rotation
- closing
- sitting
- sitting
- snap
- squatting
- sweep
- toss
- vibration
- wave
- flutter
- standing
- straddle
- stroke
- wiggle
- eurythmy
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Sense 2 noun
the act of changing location from one place to another
police controlled the motion of the crowd
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Sense 3 noun
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
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Sense 4 noun
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
he was a charter member of the movement
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Sense 5 noun
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
the second movement is slow and melodic
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Parts & wholes
Sense 6 noun
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
he supported populist campaigns
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Sense 7 noun
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
the cinema relies on apparent motion
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Sense 8 noun
a euphemism for defecation
he had a bowel movement
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Sense 9 noun
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
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Sense 10 noun
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement
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Parts & wholes
Sense 11 noun
the act of changing the location of something
the movement of cargo onto the vessel
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | move |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | abduction |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | adduction |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | agitation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | body English |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | circumduction |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | disturbance |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | fetal movement |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | flit |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | gesture |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | headshake |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | inclining |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | everting |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | upending |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | jerking |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | kicking |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | kneel |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pitching |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | eye movement |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | opening |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | prostration |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reaching |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reciprocation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reclining |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | retraction |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | retroflection |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | rotation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | closing |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sitting |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sitting |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | snap |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | squatting |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sweep |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | toss |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | vibration |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | wave |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | flutter |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | standing |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | straddle |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stroke |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | wiggle |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | eurythmy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | move |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | move |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | move |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | motional |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | coming |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | forward motion |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | locomotion |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | lunge |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | travel |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | pursuit |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ascending |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | descent |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | swinging |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | return |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | glide |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | slippage |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | flow |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | crawl |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | speeding |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | displacement |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | shifting |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | rush |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | maneuver |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | migration |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | move |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | happening |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | crustal movement |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | approaching |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | passing |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | deflexion |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bending |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | change of location |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | wave |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | jitter |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | periodic motion |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | heave |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | rebound |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | recoil |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | seek |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | wring |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | cam stroke |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | turning |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | wrench |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | undulation |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | wave |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | wobble |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | whirl |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Brownian movement |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | social group |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Free French |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | artistic movement |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Boy Scouts |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Civil Rights movement |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | common front |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | cultural movement |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | ecumenism |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | falun gong |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | political movement |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | reform movement |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | religious movement |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Zionist movement |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | sonata |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | musical composition |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | intermezzo |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | scherzo |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | aim |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | push back |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | ram |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | drive |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | labor |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | crusade |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | venture |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | advertising campaign |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | anti-war movement |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | charm campaign |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | consumerism |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | campaigning |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | fund-raising campaign |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | feminist movement |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | gay liberation movement |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | lost cause |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | reform |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | war |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | youth movement |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | optical illusion |
| 8 | domain usage | Related & opposite | euphemism |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | laxation |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | drift |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | aim |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | inclination |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | evolutionary trend |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | gravitation |
| 10 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | clock |
| 10 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | watch |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | action mechanism |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | move |
| 11 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | deracination |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | transfer |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | intromission |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | letting down |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | transplanting |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | troop movement |