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Definition: Move Around |
Move AroundVerb1. Pass to the other side of; "turn the corner"; "move around the obstacle". 2. Travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Move AroundSynonyms: travel (v), turn (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Move Around |
| English words defined with "move around": agitation, asteroid ♦ bus ♦ circle around, circle round, circulate ♦ get about, get around ♦ minor planet, mobilise, mobilize, mope, mope around ♦ planetoid, potter, potter around, putter, putter around ♦ revolve around ♦ shift ♦ transfer, troll, turn, turn over. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "move around": Bohr atom ♦ particulate matter, Petersen grab ♦ Quark-gluon plasma ♦ WINDER OPERATOR, AUTOMATIC. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know this place could move around faster than our Earth! (King Dinosaur; writing credit: Bert I. Gordon; Tom Gries) I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything really, but 'cause I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay. (Five Easy Pieces; writing credit: Carole Eastman; Bob Rafelson) Dead people don't move around and talk. (The Return of the Living Dead; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Rudy Ricci) Maybe if I shrug my shoulders and move around my hands like this, maybe people will think I know what I'm talking about. (Problem Child; writing credit: Scott Alexander; Larry Karaszewski) | |
Lyrics | To move around in your heart (Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First); performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp and George Green) MOVE AROUND AND GET ON DOWN DO WHAT YOU WANNA BABY (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | These squadrons would be trained and prepared in their own countries, but would move around in rotation from one country to another. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You may also get up and move around. (references) | |
Because you find mouse droppings and some of the furniture stuffing the mice have used as nesting material, you get a broom and sweep up the mess. As you move around and sweep, tiny particles of fresh urine, droppings and saliva, with the virus in them, get kicked up into the air. This is the aerosolization. (references) | ||
Business | The healthcare industry, seven percent of the country's GDP, is estimated to move around $20 billion per year. It is important to note that the total market size for medical equipment reached $700 million dollars, and of that, $245 million could be attributed to registered imports for 1999. These figures do not include disposable medical products nor the informal or black market. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | China | The Government's national household registration/identification card system, used to control and restrict the location of an individual's residence, is being liberalized and the ability of most citizens to move around the country to live and work continued to improve. (references) |
Human Rights | India | Human rights monitors in Jammu and Kashmir have been unable to move around the state to document human rights violations due to fear of retribution by security forces and countermilitants. (references) |
Algeria | Amnesty International visited in May 2000 and again in October 2000, and, after its May visit, claimed that the delegation had been "able to move around the country freely" and that "no restrictions were imposed" on its activities. (references) | |
Minorities | Greece | The number of Roma who move around the country continued to decrease gradually as families settled mainly into slums and camps around major cities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Heather Mills McCartney | Wherever we lay our hat, basically. We're on tour at the moment. So we move around all the time. Our main base is in London, in the U.K. But we're just all over the place. Hotels at the moment. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "move around"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | versetzen (displace, flog, hock, level, mix, move, move about, move away, move up, pawn, pop, promote, put, retort, sell, shift, stagger, stand up, to displace, transfer, transplant, transpose), unterwegs sein (be on the move, move about), umziehen (flit, move, move about, move house, move office, surround, to remove), umstellen (adapt, adjust, alter, change round, invert, move, move about, rearrange, reconvert, reorder, reshape, reversal, reverse, surround, switch over, switch round, to reconvert, transpose), umräumen (change round, move, move about), umherziehen (gad about, pull around, to stroll, travel around), umherschicken (move about), umarrangieren (move about, rearrange), sich hin und her bewegen (move about), sich bewegen (act, be in motion, behave, budge, change, get some exercise, move, move about, quicken, range, shift, stir, stretch smb.'s legs, vary), hin und her bewegen (move about), herumzappeln (diddle, fidget, flop around, move about), herumspielen mit (move about), herumschicken (move about), bewegen (actuate, affect, budge, concern, exercise, incline, induce, move, move about, moved, persuade, prompt, shake, shift, stir, to budge, to induce, to move). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 動き回る (to move around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | う"きまわる (to move around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ovemay arounday vrzmati se (dart, putter, sneak around, spin, tinker). (various references) trastear (keep at bay, lead by the nose, mess up, touch up), ir y venir (bustle, come and go, move about, shuttle, walk about), cambiar de lugar (move about). (various references) переходити (descend, devolve, move about, overgo, overpass, proceed, switch over, verge, vest), переносити (bear, carry, carry over, endure, move about, transfer, vouchsafe, waft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-o-o-r-u-v" | |
-2 letters: marooned, unmoored, varoomed. | |
-3 letters: doorman, doormen, duramen, enamour, madrone, madrono, manured, maunder, mourned, neuroma, overman, rondeau, unarmed, unmoved, vroomed. | |
-4 letters: around, daemon, damner, devour, dromon, enamor, enduro, maduro, manure, maroon, moaned, moaner, modern, mooned, moored, normed, overdo, radome, random, remand, remuda, roadeo, roamed, rodman, rodmen, romano, roomed, undoer, unmade, unmoor, unread, unrove, varoom. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 76 65      41 72 6F 75 6E 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o v e   A r o u n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0076 0065      0041 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)478188712358481878070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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