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Defenition of the word movement

    • Defenition of the word movement

      • A large number of people united for some specific purpose.
      • A change in location; the opposite of standing still.
      • A major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata.
      • The elimination of fecal waste through the anus.
      • A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.
      • an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
      • a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement"
      • a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort"
      • the act of changing your location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"
      • a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex movements of his eyebrows revealed his surprise";
      • the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"
      • the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
      • a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic"
      • a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"
      • a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
      • the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"
      • a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"
      • a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to
      • a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
      • the act of changing location from one place to another
      • the act of changing the location of something
      • a change of position that does not entail a change of location
      • a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
      • the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
      • a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
      • a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
      • a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
      • an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
      • a euphemism for defecation

    Synonyms for the word movement

      • advance
      • apparent motion
      • apparent movement
      • association
      • bm
      • bowel movement
      • campaign
      • cause
      • change
      • crusade
      • development
      • drive
      • effort
      • faction
      • front
      • group
      • interchange
      • interest group
      • lobby group
      • motion
      • move
      • passage
      • pressure group
      • progress
      • society
      • traffic
      • transfer
      • travel

    Similar words in the movement

      • movement
      • movement's
      • movements

    Meronymys for the word movement

      • clock
      • sonata
      • ticker
      • watch

    Hyponyms for the word movement

      • abduction
      • ad blitz
      • ad campaign
      • adduction
      • advance
      • advancement
      • advertising campaign
      • agitation
      • anti-war movement
      • approach
      • approaching
      • art movement
      • artistic movement
      • ascending
      • ascension
      • ascent
      • backlash
      • bend
      • bending
      • body English
      • Boy Scouts
      • Brownian motion
      • Brownian movement
      • cam stroke
      • campaigning
      • candidacy
      • candidature
      • change of location
      • charm campaign
      • chase
      • circumduction
      • Civil Rights movement
      • closing
      • coast
      • coming
      • common front
      • commotion
      • consumerism
      • conveyance
      • crawl
      • crustal movement
      • cultural movement
      • dart
      • deflection
      • deflexion
      • deracination
      • descent
      • displacement
      • disturbance
      • ecumenical movement
      • ecumenism
      • electioneering
      • eurhythmics
      • eurhythmy
      • eurythmics
      • eurythmy
      • eversion
      • everting
      • evolutionary trend
      • eye movement
      • falun gong
      • feminism
      • feminist movement
      • fetal movement
      • Fighting French
      • flicker
      • flit
      • flow
      • flutter
      • foetal movement
      • following
      • forward motion
      • Free French
      • fund-raising campaign
      • fund-raising drive
      • fund-raising effort
      • gay lib
      • gay liberation movement
      • gesture
      • glide
      • gravitation
      • haste
      • headshake
      • headshaking
      • heave
      • hurry
      • hurrying
      • inclination
      • inclining
      • insertion
      • intermezzo
      • introduction
      • intromission
      • inversion
      • jerk
      • jerking
      • jitter
      • jolt
      • kick
      • kicking
      • kneel
      • kneeling
      • letting down
      • locomotion
      • lost cause
      • lowering
      • lunge
      • lurch
      • maneuver
      • manoeuvre
      • migration
      • moving ridge
      • nystagmus
      • oecumenism
      • onward motion
      • opening
      • passage
      • passing
      • pedesis
      • periodic motion
      • periodic movement
      • pitch
      • pitching
      • play
      • political campaign
      • political movement
      • posing
      • procession
      • progress
      • progression
      • prostration
      • pursual
      • pursuit
      • quiver
      • quivering
      • reach
      • reaching
      • rebound
      • reciprocation
      • reclining
      • recoil
      • reform
      • reform movement
      • religious movement
      • repercussion
      • retraction
      • retroflection
      • retroflexion
      • return
      • rise
      • rotary motion
      • rotation
      • rush
      • rushing
      • saccade
      • scherzo
      • seek
      • shift
      • shifting
      • shutting
      • sitting
      • slide
      • slippage
      • snap
      • span
      • speed
      • speeding
      • squat
      • squatting
      • squeeze
      • squirm
      • standing
      • straddle
      • stream
      • stretch
      • stroke
      • sweep
      • swing
      • swinging
      • tectonic movement
      • throw
      • toss
      • transfer
      • transferral
      • translation
      • transplant
      • transplantation
      • transplanting
      • transport
      • transportation
      • travel
      • traveling
      • travelling
      • troop movement
      • turn
      • turning
      • twist
      • undulation
      • upending
      • vacillation
      • vibration
      • war
      • wave
      • waver
      • whirl
      • wiggle
      • wobble
      • women's lib
      • women's liberation movement
      • wrench
      • wriggle
      • wring
      • youth crusade
      • youth movement
      • Zionism
      • Zionist movement

    Hypernyms for the word movement

      • action
      • action mechanism
      • change
      • composition
      • defecation
      • disposition
      • happening
      • inclination
      • laxation
      • musical composition
      • natural event
      • occurrence
      • occurrent
      • optical illusion
      • opus
      • piece
      • piece of music
      • shitting
      • social group
      • tendency
      • venture

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