Movement

Definition: Movement

Movement

Noun

1. 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".

2. A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something.

3. 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".

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"; "he led the national liberation front".

5. A major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic".

6. A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort".

7. An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement".

8. A euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement".

9. The driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement".

10. : the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "movement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Movement \Move"ment\, noun. [French expression mouvement. See Move, and compare to Moment.]. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Fine Arts

Food & Agriculture

Medicine

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

Synonyms: Movement

Action

Noun: action, performance; doing; Verb: perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor; (exertion); praxis, execution; procedure; (conduct); handicraft; business; agency; (power at work).

Activity

Movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget, fidgetiness; flurry; (haste).

Motion

Noun: motion, movement, move; going; Verb: unrest.

Regression

Counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march; veering, tergiversation, recidivation, backsliding, fall; deterioration; recidivism, recidivity.

Crosswords: Movement

Every movement requires a few martyrs (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver II; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

Yeah, well, at least when I'm in the plane I get some sense of movement! (Wings; writing credit: Ere Kokkonen)

Hans Gruber, Hitler youth movement, escaped during the Nuremberg Trials (Our Man Flint; writing credit: Hal Fimberg)

It's movement which uses the the pretext of the free movement of goods and men to accelerate the orders of the empire, which stangles us to satisfy its ambition (Vercingétorix; writing credit: Jacques Dorfmann; Rospo Pallenberg)

Someone has sent me a bowel movement! (Pink Flamingos; writing credit: John Waters)

A movement is accomplished in six stages (Chapter 24; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

The movement you need is on your shoulder (Hey Jude (Lennon/McCartney); performing artist: The Beatles)

The Maltese Cross Movement (1967)

Rapid Guy Movement (2003)

Rosa Parks: Mother of a Movement (1998)

On the Edge: Improvisation in Music - Movement In Time (1992)

Isadora Duncan: Movement From the Soul (1989)

I've Found Someone of My Own (performing artist: Free Movement)

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

References

• The World Market for Time of Day Recording Apparatus and Apparatus for Measuring or Recording Intervals of Time with a Clock or Watch Movement or Synchronous Motor: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death (reference)

• Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement, 1860-1900 (reference)

• The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin Al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement (reference)

• Toward a People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement (reference)

• Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• American Folklore Society Afs Dance And Movement Analysis Section Membership (reference)

• Research Bi-annual For Movement (reference)

• Journal Of Bodywork & Movement Therapies (reference)

• American Folklore Society Afs Dance And Movement Analysis Se (reference)

• Lesbian And Gay Christian Movement Membership (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Reggae Nation: Island Movement (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Music & Movement 2 (reference)

• Reggae Nation Island Movement (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Bebe Sounds Movement and Sound Monitor (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Ferdinand Hassler directing movement of the Great Theodolite on Fire Island Angle measurements at the end points of the Fire Island Base Line Probably sketched by Assistant John Farley. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Dascyllus albisella - a type of damselfish with a spaghetti tag for tracing movement on artificial reef. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Figure 1. Model of Aime's first wave study instrument, built in 1838 and tested in the anchorage at Algiers the same year at depths of 11 and 18 meters. A wood top furnished with fixed points in the center of a sheet of lead and tilted by the movement of the water left markings in the metal which were compared to observations made at the surface. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 3. Model of Aime's instrument for the study of lateral movement of waves and the movement of particles within the waves, built and tested at the anchorage at Algiers in 1839 in depths of 10 and 14 meters in waves up to 1.5 meters in height. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Senior Airman Erik Eigenmen, an Air National Guardsman with the 152nd Aerial Port Flight, Reno, Nev., directs equipment movement during the 14th Air Expeditionary Wing IGX5A, Nov. 1, at the Mississippi National Guard's Gulfport Combat Readiness Training C.

Fence and other structures designed to reduce sand movement on the beach from wind action. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Fence desiged to reduce sand movement on the beach from wind action. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

South facade from southwest. Photograph by Cervin Robinson, August 18, 1963. (Reproduction Number: HABS, ILL,16-CHIG,33-2) The Robie House has the distinction of being the most frequently requested structure in the HABS and HAER collections. When Frederick C. Robie, a 33-year old engineer and bicycle manufacturing company president, wanted to build a new house, he sought out Frank Lloyd Wright. One of the best known of Wright's early Prairie houses, it was completed in 1909 and remains an icon of the modern movement in architecture. Credit: Library of Congress.

Caption: Letters Patent: Improvement in Synchronous Movement For Electric Telegraphs; February 5, 1878; {27.033/3} (jpg).

Base Hospital No. 2. Etretat, France : Orthopedic ward showing Balken frames to allow patient free movement of legs... Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A similar movement is going on before our own eyes. (reference)

The rolling-stock of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy on the German lines the same treatment as German rollingstock as regards movement, upkeep, and repairs. (reference)

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (reference)

In the South, the movement toward free common schools, supported [347 U.S. 483, 490] by general taxation, had not yet taken hold. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She had an undulating, but, oftentimes, a sharp and irregular movement.

It seemed very singular, but the sound of the bell followed every movement of the man.

A movement of impatience escaped him.

There was no movement in the camp

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Fetal movement records. (references)

The child has odd movement patterns. (references)

There is no eye movement or muscle activity. (references)

Business

Table 4 (below) shows the movement of the manufacturing industry over the last few years. (references)

Other released or paroled prisoners returned home but were not permitted freedom of movement. (references)

Johnson’s, a Chilean firm, started the movement five years ago before it could be called a movement. (references)

Children

India

With the adoption of the Persons with Disability Act, a nascent disabled rights movement slowly is raising public awareness of the rights of the disabled. (references)

Namibia

The LAC launched a national campaign to revise legislation on child maintenance in 1999. The Child Maintenance Bill was sent to the Cabinet for discussion in 1999; however, by year's end, no movement was made towards tabling it in Parliament. (references)

Afghanistan

The Taliban's restrictions on male-female medical treatment, and on the movement of women and girls in areas under its control, hampered the ability of U.N. agencies and NGO's to implement effective health and education programs and had a detrimental effect on children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

The PA generally does not restrict freedom of movement. (references)

Burundi

Soldiers did not restrict the movement of residents of IDP camps. (references)

Yugoslavia

Unlike in previous years, the VJ did not restrict freedom of movement. (references)

Economic History

Austria

Austria has a strong labor movement. (references)

Yemen

Yemen participates in the nonaligned movement. (references)

Chile

A movement for total independence soon won a wide following. (references)

Human Rights

Italy

Red Brigades, a terrorist movement, claimed responsibility for the killing. (references)

Cuba

Mena Gonzalez was the provincial coordinator of the Movement of Young Cubans for Democracy. (references)

China

Guo Haifeng, a former leader of the 1989 Tiananmen movement, was released 6 months early in March. (references)

Indigenous People

India

The Jharkhand Movement in Bihar and Orissa, and the Bodo Movement in Assam, reflect deep economic and social grievances among indigenous peoples. (references)

Thailand

Members of hilltribes without proper documentation, who account for approximately half the estimated 700,000 to 880,000 such persons, still face restrictions on their movement, may not own land, and are not protected by labor laws, including minimum wage requirements. (references)

Minorities

Indonesia

In 2000 a movement known as the Islamic State of Indonesia (NII) emerged on university campuses in Java. (references)

Political Economy

Afghanistan

Freedom of movement also was limited. (references)

Namibia

On occasion the Government restricted freedom of movement. (references)

Rwanda

In some cases, the Government restricted freedom of movement. (references)

Political Rights

Uganda

Women continued to make strong contributions in Parliament and inside the Movement. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The SDP is the leading party in the Federation Government that opposed the HDZ's separatist movement. (references)

Uganda

On June 30, President Museveni stated in a press conference that the Movement had grown stronger in this latest round of elections. (references)

Trade

Singapore

There is free movement of capital and profits in Singapore. (references)

Hong Kong

Hong Kong has an open financial system, with no controls on currency movement. (references)

Canada

Canada has no restrictions on the movement of funds into or out of the country. (references)

Travel

Hong Kong

All residents are equal under the law, enjoy freedom of movement, access to public education, and basic civil freedoms. (references)

Canada

The North American Free Trade Agreement facilitates the movement of US and Canadian business travelers across each country's borders through streamlined procedures. (references)

Women

Fiji

The women's rights movement also pressed for serious punishment for rape. (references)

Worker Rights

Lesotho

The labor and trade union movement was very weak and fragmented. (references)

Honduras

Most peasant organizations are affiliated directly with the labor movement. (references)

Guyana

There is a tradition of close ties between the trade union movement and political parties. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "movement": ad hoc movement ♦ administrative movement ♦ air movement ♦ air movement officer ♦ air movement section ♦ air movement table ♦ air movement traffic section ♦ aircraft movement ♦ aircraft movement message ♦ Amoeboid movement ♦ apparent movement ♦ army movement ♦ art movement ♦ artistic movement ♦ Aston Movement ♦ Awareness Through Movement ♦ backward movement ♦ Bioenergetic movement work ♦ bowel movement ♦ Brownian movement ♦ Cell Movement ♦ civil Rights movement ♦ Concrete sound or movement of the voice ♦ cultural movement ♦ direction of movement ♦ Discrete movement ♦ dispersed movement pattern ♦ ecumenical Movement ♦ encircling movement ♦ environmental movement ♦ eye movement ♦ Febrile movement ♦ Febrille movement ♦ feed movement ♦ feed movement directed to the interior ♦ feed movement towards the interior ♦ feeling of movement ♦ feminist movement ♦ fetal movement ♦ Flank movement ♦ foetal movement ♦ forward movement ♦ fully planned movement ♦ gay liberation movement ♦ give smb. more freedom of movement ♦ grass roots movement ♦ guerrila movement ♦ guerrilla movement ♦ have had a bowel movement ♦ horizontal movement ♦ human movement sciences ♦ Incoordination of muscular movement ♦ inventory difference due to inconsistent pricing of movement data ♦ jeweled movement ♦ labor movement ♦ labour movement ♦ lateral movement ♦ leader of a movement ♦ liberation movement ♦ liberty movement ♦ main movement ♦ mass movement ♦ Modern Movement ♦ movement area ♦ movement control ♦ movement control center ♦ movement control officer ♦ movement control post ♦ movement credit ♦ movement cure ♦ Movement Disorders ♦ movement downward ♦ movement in prices ♦ movement of capital ♦ movement of goods ♦ movement of liberation ♦ movement of the bowels ♦ movement of the head ♦ movement of the image ♦ movement of traffic ♦ movement order ♦ movement priority ♦ movement restriction ♦ movement science ♦ movement separatist ♦ movement set ♦ movement table ♦ movement to contact ♦ movement to the objective area ♦ movement upward ♦ national movement ♦ nonrapid eye movement ♦ nonrapid eye movement sleep ♦ nuclear logistic movement ♦ outflanking movement ♦ Oxford movement ♦ partially planned movement ♦ passive movement ♦ peace movement ♦ pincer movement ♦ pincers movement. Additional references.

Beginning with "movement": movement-centred, movement-dance-fashion, movement-democratic, Movement-fatah, movement-national, movement-performer, movement-sensitive, movement-types.

Ending with "movement": counter-movement, five-movement, multi-movement, single-movement.

Afrikaans

beweging. (various references)

Albanian

zhvendim, veprim (act, action, activity, agency, deed, doing, engagement, fact, motion, move, operation, play, procedure, proceeding, reaction, step, transaction, turn), transmetim (broadcast, communication, remove, shift, translation, transmission), transferim (assignation, assignment, devolution, move, switch, transfer, transferal, transference, translation, trans-shipment), trafik (traffic), temp (rhythm, tempo), qarkullim (circulation, currency, exchange, rotation, traffic, turnover), punë (affair, affairs, appointment, avocation, berth, business, concern, concernment, deed, doing, duty, employ, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, make, making, metier, occupation, office, operation, practice, question, service, shebang, slot, task, task-work, thing, work), lëvizje (bustling, buzz, drift, flow, locomotion, motion, move, removal, shifting, stir, traffic, transfer), gjest (face, gesture, motion, sign), ecje (footing, gait, going, motion, pace, run, step, tread, walk, walking). (various references)

Arabic 

حَرَكَة (activity, development, traffic), ‏نزعة (bent, bias, direction, disposition, genius, leaning, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, strain, streak, temper, tendency, trend, wind), ‏نشاط (action, activity, alacrity, bang, bounce, energy, forcefulness, ginger, go, kick, lift, liveliness, mettle, momentum, pep, promptitude, prosperity, pursuit, spirit, spunk, stir, strenuousness, tuck, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, virility, zip), ‏غائط (dejection, dirt, evacuation, excrement, turd), ‏حرية الحركة, ‏حركة تحرير, ‏حركة (activity, business, dash, drift, motion, move, stir), ‏تغوط (defecate, defecation, dejection, evacuate, evacuation, motion, pass, pass water, pooh), ‏تحرك (get about, locomotion, move, proceed, shift, stir, wag), ‏جزء رئيسي في عمل موسيقي, ‏الحركة و تعاقب الأحداث, ‏إتجاه (bearing, course, direction, drift, orientation, persuasion, quarter, range, sense, temper, tendency, tenor, trend), ‏إزعاج (annoyance, annoying, bother, botheration, discomfort, disquiet, disruption, disturbance, harassing, harassment, importunity, inconvenience, loudness, mischievousness, molestation, nuisance, offence, patter, trouble), ‏أجزاء متحركة في آلة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

темпо (pace, rate, tempo, time), движение (course, go, impulsion, locomotion, motion, move, propulsion, race, stir, way, working), придвижване (advance, locomotion, travel), екскременти (evacuations, excrement, motions), маневра (evolution, gambit, maneuver, manoeuvre, move, play, ploy, shunt), механизъм (action, assembly, contrivance, device, gear, machine, machinery, mechanism, motion, works), насока (direction, guide line, line, path, pattern, run, sense, set, stream, tide, turn), динамика (dynamics), такт (address, bar, cadence, cycle, diplomacy, management, measure, poise, savoir faire, savvy, tact, time), развитие (course, development, evolution, germination, growth, making, process, progress, run, upgrowth), тенденция (drift, hang, pattern, ply, proclivity, proneness, propensity, run, set, stream, tendency, tenor, tide, trend, turn, vein), част (concern, detachment, division, fraction, interest, lap, leg, member, outfit, parcel, part, partition, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rate, section, segment, share, slice, snack, unit), ход (action, bat, course, current, foot, gait, going, lapse, motion, move, operation, pace, passage, passing, play, ploy, process, race, rate, run, running, stream, swing, tenor, tide, track, train, tread, twist, walk, way), ходене по голяма нужда (motion, passage), ритъм (cadence, lilt, measure, pulse, rhythm), раздвижване (limbering up, rouse, shake up, stir, uplift), оживление (activity, animation, hoopla, hum, liveliness, rally, uplift). (various references)

Chinese 

運動 (campaign, sports), 运动 (Athletic, Athletically, kinetic, sporty), 移動 (mobile, to move, to shift), 手足 , 動態 (development, dynamic state, moving, trend), 動作 (action, motion). (various references)

Czech

vìta (clause, sentence, theorem), tendence (bias, disposition, tendency, trend, undercurrent), smìr (course, direction, tack, tendency, trend, way), pohyb (exercise, gesture, locomotion, motion, move, snap it up, stir, travel), přeprava (conveyance, removal, transportation), hnutí (stir). (various references)

Danish

bevægelse (motion). (various references)

Dutch

beweging (abetment, agitation, commotion). (various references)

Esperanto

movo, movado. (various references)

Faeroese

rørsla, flyting. (various references)

Farsi 

نهضت (Cause, Crusade), گردش (Canter, Circuit, Gyration, Hike, Jaunt, Meander, Operation, Period, Progress, Promenade, Race, Rev, Roll, Stroll, Trip, Twirl, Wrest), حرکت (Behavior, Demeanour, Departure, Gesture, Locomotion, Motion, Move, Poke, Progress, Stir, Stroke), تکان (Convulsion, Hustle, Jar, Jerk, Jolt, Jostle, Motion, Move, Rock, Shake, Shock, Stroke, Tremor, Wag), تغییرمکان (Move, Shift), ضرب (Beat, Contusion, Stroke), جنبش (Braid, Bustle, Cause, Commotion, Flicker, Jar, Jiggle, Locomotion, Motion, Move, Rock, Stir, Tremor, Vibration). (various references)

Finnish

liike (business, concern, firm, motion, shop). (various references)

French

mouvement (motion, move). (various references)

German

Bewegung (affection, agitation, emotion, evolution, exercise, gesture, motion, move, pass, progress, stir). (various references)

Greek 

κίνηση (actuation, ambulation, motion, motivation, move, moving, reflex, turnover), κίνημα (motion, mutiny). (various references)

Hebrew 

תזוזה (displacement, motion, move, moving, shift), תנועה (fluctuation, kinesis, locomotion, motion, move, moving, stir, traffic), תנודה (flounce, fluctuation, lurch, migration, motion, oscillation, quivering, vibration), התנועעות (swag, swaying), ג'סטה (gesture), ניעה (locomotion, lurch, motion, move, moving, stir), נידה, ניד (mobile, movable, moveable, portable, quiver, swing), נוע (motion), נענוע (jiggle, nodding, rocking, shake, swing). (various references)

Hungarian

mozgalom (buchmanism, campaign, drive, front, oxford group), mozgás (action, agitation, cast, drift, go, locomotion, motion, move, move along, shuffle, slouch, stir), székelés (defecation, motion), mozgalmasság, mozdulat (action, motion, move), működés (action, agency, functioning, gear, performance, pursuit, reach, working), ürülés (motion). (various references)

Indonesian

pergerakan, penggerakkan (activation, cause crusade), gerakan (march, motion), gerak (motion), berak (excrement, excrete, faeces). (various references)

Irish

gluaiseacht. (various references)

Italian

movimento (activity, bustle, flow, motion, move, stir, sweep, tempo). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

進退 (advance or retreat, course of action), 移動　 (migration, removal), 移動 (migration, removal), 働き (ability, achievement, action, activity, conjugation, function, inflection, labor, motion, operation, talent, work, workings), ムード音楽 (mechanical ride, mood music, moulin, mover, movie, mussels, muumuu), 楽章 , 動態 (vital), 動向 (attitude, tendency, trend), 動き (activity, change, development, trend). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がくしょう (celebrated musician), ムーブメント , しんたい (advance or retreat, an object in which a deity resides, course of action, essence, new style, the body, ultimate truth), うごき (activity, change, development, trend), どうたい (as one flesh or body, body, conductor, moving body, simultaneously, torso, trunk, vital), どうこう (accompanying, attitude, copper ore, pupil, pupillary, same school, similar tastes, tendency, travelling together, trend), いどう (a change, difference, migration, removal, the art of medicine), はたらき (ability, achievement, action, activity, conjugation, function, inflection, labor, motion, operation, talent, work, workings). (various references)

Korean 

운동 (Athletic, campaigning, Exercise, Exercising, workout). (various references)

Manx

obbragh (a production, functional, functioning, influence, operative), lheihll (action, physical activity, power, use of limb), gleashaght (drift, locomotion, motion, play), cheet as goll (hurly-burly, undulant). (various references)

Papiamen

movishon, moveshon. (various references)

Pig Latin

ovementmay.(various references)

Polish

ruch (traffic). (various references)

Portuguese

movimento (action, activity, agitation, beat, drift, drive, heartbeat, hustle, jog, motion, move, run, traffic, way)