Movement

Noun

 * 1) Physical motion between points in space.
 * I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
 * 1)  For a clockwork, a clock, or a watch, a device that cuts time in equal portions.
 * 2) The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
 * 3) A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
 * The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
 * 1)  A large division of a larger composition.
 * 2)  An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
 * Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
 * 1)  The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
 * The movement on his cutter was devastating.
 * 1) An act of emptying the bowels.

Synonyms

 * motion

Antonyms

 * stasis

Derived terms

 * art movement
 * cultural movement
 * human movement
 * literary movement
 * new religious movement
 * social movement

Related terms

 * move

Verbs for Movement
(action, change of position, etc.)

accentuate—; accomplish—; attempt—; avoid—; cease—; control—; diminish—; effect—; enliven—; facilitate—; hamper—; impede—; induce—; minimize—; necessi¬tate—; practise—; repeat—; restrain from •—; restrict—; reverse—; —agonizes. (campaign)

actuate—; annihilate—; applaud—; ban—; block—; combat—; cripple—; criticize—; defeat—; dominate—; endorse—; engage in —; engineer—; facilitate—; father—; fling into—; found—; frustrate—; govern—; in¬augurate—; initiate—; involve in—; launch —; mask—; promote—; quell—; rally to—; sponsor—; support—; —coagulates; —col¬lapses; —commences; —culminates in; — dies; —flourishes; —originates in; —pene¬trates to; —springs from; —suffers; —symbolizes; —wanes.

Adjectives for Movement
(general)

anxious; contemplated; spasmodic; commendable; romantic; recent; involuntary; strategical; deliberate; planetary; wild; busy; complicated; passionate; graceful revolutionary; impulsive; metallic; rude unobtrusive; important; erratic; impatient abortive; alternative; careless; rhythmic bustling; wandering; uncapturable, delicate; pending; retrograde; offensive; flank; convulsive; scooping; life-sustaining; contemplated; self possessed; messianic; living; hostile; rebellious; particular; painful; cooperative; bridling; incessant; aesthetic; willowy; celestial; intentional; philanthropic; turbulent; fitting; silent; wasteful; insurrectionary; muscular; imperceptible; dexterous; soothing; foregoing; extensive; composite; clicking; nautical; masterly; terrorist; kneading; responsive; flexible; religious; insensible; tremulous; brusque; grandiose; silly; subsequent; slinking; crushing; fantastic; unconvulsive; guillotine-like; discerning; serpentine; energetic; circumspect; vigorous; recreation; zigzag; interdependent; lyrical; supple; agonized; timorous; hazardous; calm; cabalistic; springy; free; desultory; syncopated; enveloping; unanticipated; blithe; glacial; martial; present; cyclic; toss-over.

Thesaurus
Alexandrine, American, Art Nouveau, Ashcan school, BM, Barbizon, Bauhaus, Bolognese, British, Cobra, Dutch, Flemish, Fontainebleau, French, Italian, Mannerist, Milanese, Modenese, Momentum, Neapolitan, New York, Paduan, Parisian, Phases, Pre-Raphaelite, Raphaelite, Reflex, Restany, Roman, Scottish, Sienese, Spur, Suprematism, The Ten, Tuscan, Umbrian, Venetian, Washington, Zeitgeist, accent, accentuation, act, action, activeness, activism, activity, actuation, advance, age group, amotion, amphibious operations, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anagnorisis, anapest, angle, antispast, architectonics, architecture, argument, arsis, art schools, atmosphere, bacchius, background, band, bass passage, bat, battalion, bearing, beat, beck, beckon, bevy, bloody flux, body, body language, bourdon, bowel movement, bridge, brigade, buffalo chips, bunch, burden, business, ca-ca, cabal, cadence, caesura, campaign, carriage, cast, catalexis, catastrophe, catharsis, cause, change, characterization, charade, chironomy, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorus, clique, clockworks, coalition, coda, cohort, colon, color, combined operations, commitment, communist front, commutation, company, complement, complication, contingent, continuity, contrivance, coprolite, coprolith, corps, coterie, counterpoint, course, covey, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, cretic, crew, crossing, crowd, crusade, current, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, decline, decrease, deed, defecation, dejection, delocalization, denouement, design, detachment, detail, development, device, diaeresis, diarrhea, dimeter, dingleberry, dipody, direction, displacement, division, dochmiac, doings, drift, drive, drive train, droppings, dry run, dumb show, dung, dynamics, dynamism, dysentery, eclectic, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, episode, epitrite, evacuation, exposition, fable, faction, faith, falling action, feces, feculence, feminine caesura, figure, fleet, flicker, flow, fluid operations, flux, folderol, foot, front, gang, gear, gears, genre, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, gimmick, glacial movement, globe-trotting, going, goings-on, grass-roots movement, great cause, ground swell, group, grouping, groupment, groups, guano, hand signal, harmonic close, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, in-group, incident, increase, innards, interest, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, ionic, issue, jakes, jingle, journeying, junta, kinematics, kinesics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lientery, lifework, lilt, line, lines, local color, locomotion, logistics, loose bowels, machinery, main current, mainstream, maneuver, maneuvers, manure, masculine caesura, mass movement, measure, mechanism, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, migration, militancy, military operations, minor operations, mission, mob, mobilization, molossus, mood, mora, motif, motion, motivation, move, movements, moving, musical phrase, musical sentence, mythos, night soil, number, numbers, operation, operations, ordure, ornament, out-group, outfit, overseas operations, pack, paeon, pantomime, part, party, passage, peer group, pencil, pentameter, pentapody, period, peripeteia, phalanx, phrase, plan, platoon, plein-air, plot, poise, political activism, political front, popular front, pose, posse, posture, power train, principle, proceedings, proceleusmatic, progress, prosody, purgation, purge, pyrrhic, quantity, reason for being, recognition, refrain, regiment, relocation, remotion, removal, removement, resolution, response, restlessness, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rising action, ritornello, run, running, runs, salon, scheme, school, secondary plot, section, servomechanism, set, sewage, sewerage, shift, shit, shits, shrug, sign, sign language, signal, slant, spondee, sprung rhythm, squad, stable, staff work, stance, stanza, statement, stir, stirring, stool, story, strain, stream, stress, string, structure, style, subject, subplot, swing, switch, syzygy, tailpiece, team, tendency, tenor, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, the general tendency, the grand style, the main course, thematic development, theme, thesis, time spirit, tone, topic, tourism, touristry, traject, trajet, transfer, transit, travel, traveling, trend, tribe, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, troop, trots, troupe, turd, turistas, tutti, tutti passage, twist, unrest, variation, velocity, verse, voidance, war game, war plans, watchworks, wheels, wheels within wheels, wing, workings, works

Etymology
From movement: (modern French mouvement:), from  movimentum:, from  movere:.

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