movement
(noun)
noun
1. a change of position that does not entail a change of location
- movement is a sign of life
- an impatient move of his hand
Similar word(s): motility, motion, move
Definition categories: act, change
2. the act of changing location from one place to another
- the movement of people from the farms to the cities
- his move put him directly in my path
Definition categories: act, change
3. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
Similar word(s): motion
Definition categories: event, happening, occurrence, occurrent
4. 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
Similar word(s): front
Definition categories: group
5. a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
- the second movement is slow and melodic
Definition categories: communication, composition, opus, piece
6. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- the movement to end slavery
Similar word(s): campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort
Definition categories: act, venture
7. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement
Similar word(s): motion
Definition categories: phenomenon
8. a euphemism for defecation
- he had a bowel movement
Definition categories: process, defecation, laxation
9. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a broad movement of the electorate to the right
Definition categories: thought, disposition, inclination, tendency
10. the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
- it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement
Definition categories: man–made, action
11. the act of changing the location of something
- the movement of cargo onto the vessel
Definition categories: act, change
Sentences with movement as a noun:
- I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
- The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
- Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
- The movement on his cutter was devastating.