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- pronunciation:
- muv
mnt
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer, Word Parts
part of speech: |
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definition 1: |
change in position or location.
The window was open, and there was slight movement of the curtains.His legs were paralyzed and not capable of movement.There was hurried movement toward the open doors of the train.- synonyms:
- shift
- similar words:
- motion, move, passage, switch, transposition, turn
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definition 2: |
a particular instance or way of changing place or position in space.
Each movement of her arm was painful.The movements in ballet are graceful and highly stylized.- 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.
The lecture focused on the movement toward individualism in society.- synonyms:
- course, passage, process, progression, trend
- similar words:
- advance, tenor
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definition 4: |
a group of people or organizations acting with similar tendencies or acting to achieve a common goal, or the combined actions of the group, or the ideas that the group hold in common.
Ending the Vietnam War was the goal of the peace movement in the 1960s and '70s.The painters Monet, Pissaro, and Degas were part of the French impressionist movement in art, which was at its peak in the mid to late nineteenth century.- 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.
The theme is repeated throughout the second movement of the symphony.- similar words:
- act, passage
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definition 7: |
a change of position of military troops, ships, weapons, or supplies.
The spies detected no movement of the enemy troops.- 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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