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Definition: Move |
MoveNoun1. The act of deciding to do something; "he didn't make a move to help"; "his first move was to hire a lawyer". 2. The act of changing your residence or place of business; "they say that three moves equal one fire". 3. A change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility". 4. The act of changing your location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path". 5. (games) a player's turn to move a piece or take some other permitted action. Verb1. Change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?" "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect";"The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell". 2. Cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant". 3. Move so as to change position, as of a body part (nontranslational motion): "He moved his hand slightly to the right". 4. Change residence, affiliation, or place of employment; "We moved from Idaho to Nebraska"; "The basketball player moved from one team to another". 5. Follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels". 6. Be in a state of action; "she is always moving". 7. Go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy". 8. Perform an action; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly". 9. Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd". 10. : give an incentive; "This moved me to sacrifice my career". 11. : arouse sympathy or compassion in; "Her fate moved us all". 12. : dispose of by selling; "The chairman of the company told the salesmen to move the computers". 13. : progress by being changed: "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting". 14. : live one's life in a specified environment; "she moves in certain circles only". 15. : have a turn; make one's move in a game; "Can I go now?". 16. : propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "move" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Move \Move\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Moved; Moving.]. (references) |
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Multilingual Slang | Swahili (ishia). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Long-distance land bird migration
Many species of land birds migrate very long distances, the most common pattern being for birds to breed in the temperate or arctic northern hemisphere and winter in warmer regions, often in the tropics or the southern hemisphere.
There is a strong genetic component to migration in terms of timing and route, but this may be modified by environmental influences. An interesting example where a change of migration route has occurred because of such a geographical barrier is the trend for some Blackcaps in central Europe to migrate west and winter in Great Britain rather than cross the Alps.
The advantage of the migration strategy is that, in the long days of the northern summer, breeding birds have more hours to feed their young on often abundant food supplies, particularly insects. As the days shorten in autumn and food supplies become scarce, the birds can return to warmer regions where the length of the day varies less and there is an all year round food supply.
The downside of migration is the hazards of the journey, especially when difficult habitats such as deserts and oceans must be crossed, and weather conditions may be adverse.
The risks of predation are also high. The Eleanora's Falcon which breeds on Mediterranean islands has a very late breeding season, timed so that autumn passerine migrants can be hunted to feed its young.
Whether a particular species migrates depends on a number of factors. The climate of the breeding area is important, and few species can cope with the harse winters of inland Canada or northern Eurasia. Thus the Blackbird Turdus merula is migratory in Scandinavia, but not in the milder climate of southern Europe.
The nature of the staple food is also important. Most specialists insect eaters are long-distance migrants, and have little choice but to head south in winter.
Sometimes the factors are finely balanced. The Whinchat Saxicola rubetra of Europe is a long-distance migrant wintering in the tropics, whereas its close relative, the Stonechat Saxicola torquata is resident in most of its range, and moves only short distances from the colder north and east.
Certain areas, because of their location, have become famous as watchpoints for migrating birds. Examples are the Point Pelee National Park in Canada, and Spurn in England. Drift migration of birds blown off course by the wind can result in "falls" of large numbers of migrants at coastal sites.
Another cause of birds occurring outside their normal ranges is the "spring overshoot" in which birds returning to their breeding areas overshoot and end up further north than intended.
A mechanism which can lead to great rarities turning up as vagrants thousands of kilometres out of range is reverse migration, where the genetic programming of young birds fails to work properly.
Recent research suggests that long-distance passerine migrants are of South American and African, rather than northern hemisphere, evolutionary origins. They are effectively southern species coming north to breed rather than northern species going south to winter.
Broad-winged long distance migrants
Some large broad-winged birds rely on thermal columns of rising hot air to enable them to soar. These include many birds of prey such as vultures, eagles and buzzards, but also storks.
Migratory species in these groups have great difficulty crossing large bodies of water, since thermals can only form over land, and these birds cannot maintain active flight for long distances.
The Mediterranean therefore presents a major obstacle to soaring birds, which are forced to cross at the narrowest points. This means that massive numbers of large raptors and storks pass through areas such as Gibraltar, Falsterbo and the Bosphorus at migration times. Commoner species, such as the Honey Buzzard can be counted in hundreds of thousands in autumn.
Other barriers, such as mountain ranges, can also cause funnelling, particularly of the large diurnal migrants.
Short-distance land bird migration
The long distance migrants in the previous section are effectively genetically programmed to respond to changing lengths of days. However many species move shorter distances, but may do so only in response to harsh weather conditions.
Thus mountain and moorland breeders, like the Wallcreeper and White-throated Dipper may move only altitudinally to escape the cold higher ground. Other species like the Merlin and Skylark will move further to the coast or to a more southerly region.
Species like the Chaffinch are not migratory in Great Britain, but will move south or to Ireland in very cold weather. Interesting, in Scandinavia, the female of this species migrates, but not the male, giving rise to the specific name coelebs, a batchelor.
Short distance passerine migrants have two evolutionary origins. Those which have long distance migrants in the same family, like the Chiffchaff, are species of southern hemisphere origins which have progressively shortened their return migration so that they stay in the northern hemisphere.
Those species which have no long distance migratory relative, like the waxwings, are effectively moving in response to winter weather, rather than enhanced breeding opportunities.
Wildfowl and wader migration
The typical image of migration is of northern landbirds such as swallows and birds of prey making long flights to the tropics. Many northern breeding ducks geese and swans are also long-distance migrants, but need only to move from their arctic breeding grounds far enough south to escape frozen waters.
This means that most wildfowl remain in the Northern hemisphere, but in milder countries. For example, the Pink-footed Goose migrates from Iceland to Great Britain and neighbouring countries. Usually wintering grounds are traditional and learned by the young when they migrate with their parents.
Some ducks, such as the Garganey, do move completely or partially into the tropics.
A similar situation occurs with waders (called "shorebirds" in North America). Many species, such as Dunlin and Western Sandpiper undertake long movements from their arctic breeding grounds to warmer locations in the same hemisphere, but others like Semipalmated Sandpiper travel huge distances to the tropics.
Most of the wildfowl are large and powerful, and even the waders are strong fliers. This means that birds wintering in temperate regions have the capacity to make further shorter movements in the event of particularly inclement weather.
Seabird migration
Much of what has been said in the previous section applies to many seabirds. Some, like the Black Guillemot and some gulls are quite sedentary, others, such as most of the terns and auks breeding in the temperate northen hemisphere move south varying distances in winter. The Arctic Tern sees more daylight than any other bird, moving from its arctic breeding grounds to the antarctic wintering areas. Seabirds, of course, have the advantage that they can feed on migration.
The most pelagic species, mainly in the order Procellariiformes, are great wanderers, and the albatrosses of the southern oceans may circle the globe as they ride the "roaring forties" outside the breeding season. The tubenoses in general spread thinly over large areas of open ocean, but congregate when food becomes available.
Pelagic birding trips attract petrels and other procellarids by tipping "chum", a mixture of fish oil and offal, into the sea. Within minutes, a previously apparently empty ocean is full of petrels, fulmars and shearwaters attracted by the food.
A few seabirds, like Wilson's Petrel, and Great Shearwater are amongst the few species that breed in the southern hemispehere and migrate north in the southern winter.
Migration in the tropics
In the tropics there is little variation in the length of day throughout the year, and it is always warm enough for an adequate food supply. Apart from the seasonal movements of northern hemisphere wintering species, most species are in the broadest sense resident. However many species undergo movements of varying distances depending on the rainfall.
Many tropical regions have wet and dry seasons, the monsoons of India being perhaps the best known example. An example of a bird whose distribution is rain associated is the Woodland Kingfisher of west Africa.
There are a few species, notably cuckoos, which are genuine long-distance migrants within the tropics. An example is the Lesser Cuckoo, which breeds in India and winters in Africa.
In the high mountains, such as the Himalayas and the Andes, there are of course also altitudinal movements of greater or lesser extent by many species.
Migration in Australasia
Bird migration is primarily, but not entirely, a Northern Hemisphere phenomenon. In the Southern Hemisphere, seasonal migration tends to be much less marked. There are several reasons for this.
First, the largely uninterupted expanses of land mass or ocean tend not to funnel migrations into narrow and obvious pathways, making them less obvious to the human observer. Second, at least for terrestrial birds, climatic regions tend to fade into one another over a long distance rather than be entirely separate: this means that rather than make long trips over unsuitable habitat to reach particular destinations, migrant species can usually travel at a relaxed pace, feeding as they go: short of banding studies it is often not obvious that the birds seen in any particular locality as the seasons change are in fact different members of the same species passing through, gradually working their way north or south.
Relatively few Australasian birds migrate in the way that so many European and North American species do. This is largely a matter of geography: the Australasian climate has seasonal extremes no less compelling than those of Europe, however they are far less predictable and tend to take place over periods both shorter and longer. A couple of weeks of heavy rain in one part or another of the usually dry centre of Australia, for example, produces dramatic plant and invertebrate growth, attracting birds from all directions. This can happen at any time of year, summer or winter and, in any given area, may not happen again for a decade or more.
Broader climatic extremes are highly unpredictable also: expected seasonal heat or rain arrives or does not arrive, depending on the vaguaries of El Niño: it is commonplace to have stretches of five or ten years at a time when winter rains do not eventuate during the El Niño cycle, and equally common to have La Niña periods which turn arid zones into areas of lush grass and shallow lakes. Long distance migration requires a heavy investment in time and body mass—and given the random nature of El Niño, an investment with an uncertain return.
In broad, Australasian birds tend to be sedantry or nomadic, moving on whenever conditions become unfavourable, to whichever area happens to be more suitable at the time.
There are many exceptions, however. Some species make the long haul to breed in far distant northern climes every year, notably swifts, and a great many wading birds that breed in the Arctic Circle during the southern winter.
Many others arrive for the southern spring and summer to breed, then fly to tropical northern Australia, New Guinea, or the islands of South East Asia for the Southern winter. Examples include cuckoos, the Satin Flycatcher, the Dollarbird, and the Rainbow Bee-eater.
Others again are altitudinal migrants, moving to higher country during summer, returning to warmer areas in winter like several robins, or travel north and south with the seasons but within a relatively restricted range. The tiny 10 cm Silvereye is an example: most of the southernmost Tasmanian race crosses the 200 miles of Bass Strait after breeding to disperse into Victoria, South Australia, NSW and even southern Queensland, replacing the normal residents who fly still further north, following the band of fertile country along the coast, feeding through the day and travelling mostly at night. The northernmost populations, however, are nomadic rather than migratory, as are the Silvereyes of southern Western Australia, which is bounded by thousands of miles of desert to the north and east, and sea to the south and west.
See also
- Bird ringing
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bird migration."
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A climbing technique is a technique used in climbing.; heel hook
; toe hook
- hooking your heel behind a grip for balance
; finger jam, hand jam, fist jam
- hooking your toe behind a grip for balance
; chest jam
- jamming a body part in a crack to use as a hold
; arm bar, elbow bar
- method for resting
; no-hands rest
- larger jams
; holding a grip tendu or arqué
- method for resting without using your hands
; piazzing
- different ways of holding a grip
; chimneying
- method for climbing a vertical ledge
; egyptian (climbing)
- method for climbing a chimney
; mantling (climbing)
- method for reducing tension in arms when holding a side grip
- boosting upwards with only ones arms, ending with arms fully extended downwards
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'MOVE! is an organisation formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 by John Africa (Vincet Leaphart) and Donald Glassey. It was described by CNN as:Glassey owned a house in the Powelton Village neighborhood of Philadelphia, and his house became the first home base for MOVE. Neighbors began to complain about the sanitation aspects of their back to nature philosophy, and after an armed standoff with Philadelphia's department of Licenses and Inspections, Mayor Frank Rizzo ordered a blockade of the immediate neighborhood, in order to get MOVE members out of the house. The blockade was not successful, and on August 8, 1976, Philadelphia police attempted to clear the house by force.
- a loose-knit, mostly black group whose members all adopted the surname Africa, advocated a "back-to-nature" lifestyle and preached against technology.
Every tactical move was telegraphed to the house via bullhorns. One of their first tactics was to turn fire hoses on the house. The police even considered the depth of the basement of the MOVE house and the height of the basement windows, to ensure that nobody would drown if the basement was completely flooded.
Who began shooting is disputed; MOVE claims that they never fired a shot; videotape shows muzzle flashes from the basement windows of the MOVE house. One police offiver, James Ramp, was killed. Rizzo had the house demolished the next day. Leaphart and eight other MOVE members were sentenced to prison for the murder.
MOVE moved to a house in west Phildelphia owned by Louise James, a relative of a MOVE member. They continued their back to nature philosophy, and added a new agenda, freeing John Africa (Vincent Leaphart). In a change from their previous tactic of staging protests downtown, MOVE began to pressure their neighbors. The Osage Avenue houses were connected, and their roofs formed a convenient jogging track for MOVE. Neighbors listened to the MOVE physical training program through their bedroom ceilings. Neighbors complained about that, and the public address system that MOVE used for political diatribes, as well as the smell of human and animal waste. Then Managing Director W. Wilson Goode was ran for mayor, and the neighbors were convinced that Philadelphia's first African American mayor would be able to reason with MOVE, so they did not press the issue pending the election. Goode was elected in November of 1983. The situation on Osage Avenue did not change.
On May 13, 1985, in a failed attempt to serve arrest warrants on four members of the group, Philadelphia police became engaged in a gun battle at MOVE's communal residence. They eventually decided to drop a bomb on MOVE's rooftop structure alternately described as a "gun turret" and as a purely defensive fortification. The structure was unoccupied at the time. This bomb started a fire which destroyed the entire block and killed eleven people. Ironically, the city's best firefighting equipment had been trained on the rooftop bunker all morning, but "the decision was made to let the fire burn" in the words of police chief Gregore Sambor. 62 houses burned to the ground; only Ramona and Birdie Africa escaped. Six adults and five children in the MOVE house died.
Police initially said they had been fired upon first with automatic weapons, but only a small number of non-automatic weapons were found in the burned-out home. MOVE supporters have described the raid as a revenge attack for the 1978 shooting.
In the aftermath of the catastrophe the city launched a special investigation which found, among other things, that "Dropping a bomb on an occupied row house was unconscionable." Philadelphia has paid $26.5 million to the victims after various lawsuits.
External links
- Official Homepage
- CNN article
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "MOVE."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MOVE | English | Modernisation of vocational education | Economics, Education |
| ON THE MOVE | English | Application Support Services for Distributed Mobile Multimedia | N/A |
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Synonyms: MoveSynonyms: motility (n), motion (n), movement (n), relocation (n), act (v), affect (v), be active (v), displace (v), go (v), impress (v), incite (v), locomote (v), make a motion (v), motivate (v), proceed (v), prompt (v), propel (v), run (v), strike (v), travel (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: refrain (v), rest (v), stand still (v), stay (v), stay in place (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Action | Deed, act, overt act, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan). |
Beginning | Noun: beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction; (precursor); alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new departure. |
Deity | Verb: create, move, uphold, preserve, govern; |
Excitation | Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame. |
Motion | Put in motion, set in motion; move; impel; propel; render movable, mobilize. |
Noun: motion, movement, move; going; Verb: unrest. | |
Motive | Verb: induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse; Noun: to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, beckon. |
Offer | Verb: offer, proffer, present, tender; bid; propose, move; make a motion, make advances; start; invite, hold out, place in one's way, put forward. |
Supposition | Put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move, make a motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture. |
Undertaking | Noun: undertaking; compact; adventure, venture; engagement; (promise); enterprise, emprise; pilgrimage; matter in hand; (business ); move; first move; (beginning). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Move |
| English words defined with "move": move back, move back and forth, move in, move involuntarily, move on, move out, move over, move reflexively, move up ♦ on the move ♦ To make a move. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "move": Career Limiting Move ♦ move upward/to. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "move": Wave. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Move" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Papiamen (actuate, move). |
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Screenplays | Let's move on. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin. Based on the play by Aaron Sorkin.) Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) The statue seemed to move, but didn't (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) You've always got to put the past behind you before you can move on. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) Move it like molasses (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) | |
Lyrics | Move your mind mind (Move Your Body; performing artist: Eiffel 65) Walk a mile just to move an inch (Duck And Run; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) Let's move with the subject because I came with a (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW) MOVE AROUND AND GET ON DOWN DO WHAT YOU WANNA BABY (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints) Move heaven and earth if you were my girl (I Can Love You Like That; performing artist: All-4-One) | |
Clever | Most accidents happen at home. Maybe we should move. (references; author: unknown) By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends. (references; author: unknown) Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Your Move (1973) It's Your Move (1967) Darling Move Over (1963) So You Want to Move (1950) It's Your Move (1945) | |
Song Titles | Make A Move On Me (performing artist: Olivia Newton-John) Move This (performing artist: Technotronic) Bust A Move (performing artist: Young M.C.) | |
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 | This illustration with and without text, titled "How Cancer Spreads" explains the process of metastasis. Once metastatic cells are attached to the basement membrane (a physical barrier that seperates tissue components), they break through with the help of an enzyme called type IV collagenase. Cancer cells then move through the blood stream enabling them to spread to other parts of the body. A secondary tumor may form at another site in the body. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Jane Hurd (artist). |  | This is a scanning electron micrograph of a dividing cell, cultured from chinese hampster ovary tissue (cho). The light micrograph (inset) of the same mitotic cell reveals that it's in the anaphase stage when the darkly stained chromosomes move to opposite poles of the cell prior to cell cleavage. The surface of this cell, seen in the scanning electron micrograph image, is covered with small fingerlike projections called microvilli; this surface appearance is typical, but not definitive, for cultured cells in anaphase. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Mosquito larvae are not propelled by appendages, as are the aquatic insects shown, nor do they move with rhythmic, undulating motions characteristic of many aquatic insect larvae. Credit: CDC. |  | Pack train Triangulation party on the move. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Instrument man signaling rodman to move to left Level party of Ira Rubottom. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The Greenhill/East Timbalier dredge deposition -- backhoe is used to move pipe to evenly distribute the dredge material. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Cat train on the move at noon on a clear day. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | A cat train on the move across the tundra Moving equipment and supplies from Barter Island to Tigvariak Island Black object is a boat hull for use in the summer. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Operating a forklift to move processed fish. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Volunteers move planting material to the island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "On the move" by Keith Corcoran Commentary: "Walking on the way home I try to snap whatever I can.. digital film is free so snap away. Sometimes I get something decent. www.k eithcorcoran.com ." | "On the move" by Finn Erik Commentary: "My son in motion... ." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Archimedes | Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. |
Author Unknown | Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it. |
| When desire and will and work move together, in the right direction, nothing can stop us. | |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. |
Leo Aikman | The Golden Rule is of no use whatever unless you realize it's your move. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. |
Robert Louis Stevenson | I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. |
Socrates | Let him that would move the world first move himself. |
Virgil | If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | All merchants shall have safe and secure exit from England, and entry to England, with the right to tarry there and to move about as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and right customs, quit from all evil tolls, except (in time of war) such merchants as are of the land at war with us. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | For when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority: for that which acts any community, being only the consent of the individuals of it, and it being necessary to that which is one body to move one way; it is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it, which is the consent of the majority: or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body, one community, which the consent of every individual that united into it, agreed that it should; and so every one is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Tea passed pleasantly, and nobody seemed in a hurry to move. |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Hence, if I move the hands, I change the time |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | In some months of the year, however, there often chances a forenoon when affairs move onward with a livelier tread |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The enormous squadrons began to move. |
Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | God, I don't know. A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Pa and Ma and the children watched Uncle John move away |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And therefore when he was again about to move, I screamed as loud as fear could make me. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We cannot touch a string or move a stop but the charming moral transfixes us. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You may also get up and move around. (references) | |
One moment the patient can move easily. (references) | ||
It helps us run, walk, move, sit, and touch. (references) | ||
Business | People began to move to newly developing suburbs. (references) | |
Nevertheless, EGAT expects all major power projects to move ahead. (references) | ||
Each year more than one million private households move in Germany. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Thailand | Registered resident aliens move freely within the country. (references) |
Ghana | Citizens and foreigners are free to move throughout the country. (references) | |
Monaco | Residents move freely within the country and across its open borders with France. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | The impact of this move is a major unknown. (references) |
Ecuador | Trucking companies move almost all in-country freight. (references) | |
Morocco | Most agricultural and manufactured goods move by road. (references) | |
Human Rights | Peru | In civilian courts criminal cases move through three distinct phases. (references) |
El Salvador | The appeals court determined that the trial should move to the next phase. (references) | |
China | Many gays and lesbians saw the move as a sign of increased government tolerance. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Chile | Sixty-seven families accepted economic inducements to move to other land but six families involved continued to object to ENDESA's effort to have them resettled. (references) |
Dominica | Until 1979 the Carib Constitution allowed Carib men married to non-Carib women to continue living on the Carib reserve but dictated that Carib women married to non-Carib men had to move off the reservation. (references) | |
Minorities | Niger | The problem continued through September 1999, when the missionaries decided to move away. (references) |
Political Economy | Israel | These two considerations have led some foreign businesses to move cautiously on investments in Israel. (references) |
TAIWAN | Some employers assert that the amendment has increased production costs and forced them to move business offshore. (references) | |
Burma | These are early but positive signs that the regime may be willing to move toward national reconciliation in the talks. (references) | |
Political Rights | Guinea | When the victorious PUP councils could not agree on who should be appointed to leadership positions, President Conte named several mayors himself, in a move that observers criticized widely as unconstitutional and irregular. (references) |
Mali | Despite governmental pressure to move ahead with decentralization, the nonparliamentary opposition says that the Government is moving too fast and should implement the process step by step as administrators lack adequate funding to govern effectively. (references) | |
Trade | Botswana | South Africa claimed the move was necessary to eliminate pervasive VAT evasion fraud. (references) |
Travel | Bahamas | Conversations generally move to a first name basis a bit more slowly than in the United States. (references) |
Honduras | When meeting with Honduran counterparts it is often best to move into business matters gradually. (references) | |
Denmark | Business visitors can also move easily from one part of the country to another by train or domestic airlines. (references) | |
Women | Uzbekistan | After marriage many women or girls move into the husband's home, where they occupy the lowest rung on the family social ladder. (references) |
Libya | For example, many educated young couples prefer to set up their own households, rather than move in with their parents, and view polygyny with scorn. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Pakistan | Women initially were reluctant to move from their homes to stitching centers. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | KNIGHT, n. Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow -- no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Card | But it was a good plan. It was a balanced stimulus package, and he'd like to see Congress move forward with that plan. |
Beth Veglahn | Well, he was at work, and I decided enough was enough. And a friend of mine and my brother helped me move out in the middle of the night. |
Dan Rather | Time to move on. I think so. That decision hasn't been made. There's a lot of possibilities. Don't have to have a host. Could go a repertory company. |
Dennis Miller | Say what you will about drug addicts, at least they move slowly. |
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. |
Jay McGraw | You know, that's a good question, because I think it spans from however long you're old enough to say, I want to do other than exactly what my parents say, to whenever you move out of the house, or quit dealing under the umbrella of your parents. |
Madonna | When I was a teenager I wanted to be a dancer. I wanted to move to New York and be a dancer. That was my goal, and that was my dream. It was pretty small. |
Marla Hanson | I don't know. I mean, things came out in the trial, but I don't really know myself. I had a little bit of fear about him because he had been very threatening in the apartment when I said I wanted to move. |
Rush Limbaugh | The Kyoto Protocol is simply another end-around move by the United Nations to get into the back pockets of the advanced nations of the world. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | The general objective, on the contrary, is to move forward to find the way in time of peace to the full utilization and development of our physical and human resources that were demonstrated so effectively in the war. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | If the Common Market should move toward protectionism and restrictionism, it would undermine its own basic principles. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | So together, I think, we must now move to strike down the barriers to full cooperation among the American nations, and to free the energies and the resources of two great continents on behalf of all of our citizens. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Together with the rest of the world, let us resolve to move forward from the beginnings we have made. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | As we move forward to meet our global challenges and opportunities, we must have the tools to do the job. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | With careful planning, efficient management, and proper restraint on spending, we can move rapidly toward a balanced budget, and we will. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Today America is strong and democracy is everywhere on the move. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Men and women of the world move toward free markets through the door to prosperity. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Move it from the government directly to the workers of America. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Move" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 51.95% of the time. "Move" is used about 19,019 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 51.95% | 9,880 | 950 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.78% | 6,424 | 1,510 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.25% | 2,710 | 3,390 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19,019 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "move": aggressive move ♦ back move of the pointer ♦ backward move of the pointer ♦ be always on the move ♦ be on the move ♦ be unable to move ♦ career Limiting Move ♦ chess move ♦ cursor move ♦ do you think he is likely to move in this affair? ♦ first move ♦ free to move ♦ get a move on ♦ get a move on! ♦ he didn't move a muscle ♦ i move that we ♦ it is about time we should move ♦ it is for him to move first in the matter ♦ it is your move ♦ knight's move ♦ knight's move at chess ♦ like the move of the knight on a chessboard ♦ look sharp! move on ♦ make a move ♦ make a move to do ♦ make the first move ♦ make the next move ♦ move a bit ♦ move a piece of furniture ♦ move about ♦ move across ♦ move along ♦ move along! ♦ move apart ♦ move around ♦ move aside ♦ move away ♦ move back ♦ move back and forth ♦ move backwards ♦ move by entreaties ♦ move closer together ♦ move deeply ♦ move down ♦ move for ♦ move for a rehearing ♦ move forward ♦ move from ♦ move from an opinion ♦ move from place to place ♦ move from post to pillar and from pillar to post ♦ move green ♦ move heaven and earth ♦ move house ♦ move in ♦ move in a rut ♦ move in chess ♦ move in on ♦ move in together ♦ move into ♦ move into position ♦ move into the area ♦ move involuntarily ♦ move mode ♦ move nearer ♦ move number ♦ move off ♦ move office ♦ move on ♦ move on to pastures new ♦ move oneself ♦ move onwards ♦ move out ♦ move out of ♦ move out of line ♦ move out of place ♦ move out of sight ♦ move over ♦ move past ♦ move quickly ♦ move reflexively ♦ move remove ♦ move round ♦ move smb. to do smth. ♦ move stock ♦ move the bowels ♦ move the heart of ♦ move to ♦ move to a hospital ♦ move to a new place ♦ move to another room ♦ move to another seat ♦ move to pity ♦ move to tears ♦ move to the previous question ♦ move together ♦ move up ♦ move up a class ♦ move up front ♦ move upward/to ♦ move with the times. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "move": move-by-move, move-for-move, move-on, move-ons, move-up, move-when. | |
Ending with "move": adolescence-as-career-move, always-on-the-move, career-move, counter-move, house-move, Knight's-move, last-move, mis-move, move-by-move, move-for-move, on-the-move, piano-move, post-move, reluctant-to-move, rotate-and-move. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
move | 3,024 | kombat mortal move trilogy | 83 |
move quote | 1,996 | self move | 83 |
dance move | 1,444 | bust a move download | 82 |
bust a move | 500 | dance free move | 81 |
move streetball | 428 | free move sex | 79 |
and 1 move | 314 | move to calgary | 76 |
sex move | 296 | ball move street | 76 |
basketball move | 249 | move car | 75 |
free to move | 231 | body like move snake | 73 |
break dance move | 189 | alliance deadly kombat mortal move | 71 |
chess move | 180 | your move | 70 |
break dancing move | 171 | night move | 70 |
wrestling move | 162 | killer instinct move | 66 |
hip hop dance move | 160 | com move | 66 |
move your foot | 158 | hot move sauce | 63 |
bitch move | 137 | capoeira move | 62 |
cheerleading move | 103 | max keebles big move | 60 |
soccer move | 98 | move to houston | 60 |
move to troy | 87 | move to san diego | 58 |
right move | 83 | enter matrix move | 57 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "move"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verplaas (transfer), verhuis, roer (actuate, curl, froth, stir, whip, whirl), beweeg (actuate), aangry (affect, agitate, stir). (various references) | |
Albanian | mallëngjej (choke up), mbartem (remove), manipuloj (manipulate), gjallëroj (animate, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, pep, quicken, relieve, renew, revive, rouse, set about, smarten up, spirit, spiritualize, sting, stir, tense, vitalize, vivify, warm up), hap (anatomize, cave, detect, dig, disclose, display, dissect, distribute, drive, expand, footstep, inaugurate, open, open up, pace, peg, pitch, remove, roll out, spread, start, step, stretch, strew, turn down, turn on, unblock, unbolt, unbosom, uncap, unclasp, unclench, unclose, uncork, uncover, undo, undraw, unfurl, unhook, unlatch, unlock, unreel, unseal, unshutter, unwrap, walk), lëviz (budge, change place, dance, dodge, draft, draught, drive, go along, proceed, remove, step, stir), lëvizje (bustling, buzz, drift, flow, locomotion, motion, movement, removal, shifting, stir, traffic, transfer), prek (adjoin, affect, attack, brush, feel, graze, handle, hit, hurt, palpate, penetrate, reach, rub, touch, touch on, touch upon), drejtohem (accost, call on, destine, refer, resort, straighten, strike out, wend, wend one's way), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), detyroj (bind, bully, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, enforce, entail, force, have, haze, impel, keep, make, obligate, oblige, outface, pin down, press, push, rack, screw, strong arm, tie), ndërrim shtëpie, ndërroj shtëpie, ndryshim vendi, bëj propozim, luaj vendit, shqetësoj (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, break up, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex, worry), zhvendos (carry, dislodge, displace, relocate, transpose), veprim (act, action, activity, agency, deed, doing, engagement, fact, motion, movement, operation, play, procedure, proceeding, reaction, step, transaction, turn), vërtitem (circle, dance, flitter, flutter, gyrate, loiter, mill, mooch, move about, Potter, revolve, roll, turn, turn round, wheel, whirl round), transportoj (carry, convey, dray, float, freight, portage, ship, take place, transfer, transport), transferoj (assign, circulate, devolve, down-load, draft, draught, shift, transfer, translate, trans-ship), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hang up, hold over, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), zhvillohem (be, blossom, develop, expand, go on, grow up), shpërngulje (displacement, evacuation, migrat |