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move·ment
 movement
- pronunciation:
- muv
m
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- features:
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a change in position or location.
- synonyms:
- shift
- similar words:
- motion, move, passage, switch, tactics, transposition, turn
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| definition 2: |
the act, process, or manner of moving.
- synonyms:
- activity, locomotion, motion, passage
- similar words:
- action, career, circulation, conveyance, gesture, go, mobility, move, step
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| definition 3: |
a trend or course of events.
- synonyms:
- course, passage, process, progression, trend
- similar words:
- advance, tenor
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| definition 4: |
a group of people or organizations acting to achieve a common goal.
the peace movement- synonyms:
- alliance, coalition
- similar words:
- cause, school, union
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| definition 5: |
progression through a sequence, as of things, events, or stages in a literary work.
- synonyms:
- parade, procession, progression, sequence, succession
- similar words:
- advancement, development, unfolding
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| definition 6: |
a main section in a musical composition.
- similar words:
- act, passage
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| definition 7: |
a change of position of military troops, ships, weapons, or supplies.
- synonyms:
- maneuver, operation
- similar words:
- action, campaign, mission, mobilization, transportation
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| definition 8: |
the act of emptying the bowels, or the feces so evacuated.
- synonyms:
- BM, defecation, evacuation, excrement, excretion, feces, shit, stool
- similar words:
- elimination, excreta, ordure
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| related words: |
canon, career, drift, exercise, leap, maneuver, motion, pace, play, process, progress, progression |
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