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Move Around

Definition: Move Around

Move Around

Verb

1. 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 Around

Synonyms: travel (v), turn (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Move Around

English words defined with "move around": agitation, asteroidbuscircle around, circle round, circulateget about, get aroundminor planet, mobilise, mobilize, mope, mope aroundplanetoid, potter, potter around, putter, putter aroundrevolve aroundshifttransfer, troll, turn, turn over. (references)
Specialty definitions using "move around": Bohr atomparticulate matter, Petersen grabQuark-gluon plasmaWINDER OPERATOR, AUTOMATIC. (references)

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Modern Usage: Move Around

DomainUsage

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.

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Historic Usage: Move Around

AuthorDateQuotation

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Move Around

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Spoken Usage: Move Around

SpeakerPhrase(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.

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Modern Translation: Move Around

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

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vrzmati se (dart, putter, sneak around, spin, tinker). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Move Around

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Move Around


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 76 65      41 72 6F 75 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#32 &#65 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0076 0065      0041 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

478188712358481878070

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INDEX

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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