Set In Motion

Definition: Set In Motion

Set In Motion

Verb

1. Get going; give impetus to; "launch a career"; "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process".

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Synonym: Set In Motion

Motion

Put in motion, set in motion; move; impel; propel; render movable, mobilize.

Regression

Put in motion, set in motion; set agoing, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel; trundle; (set in rotation); expel.

Use

Verb: use,.make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work.

Crosswords: Set In Motion

Set in Motion (1986)

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Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. (reference)

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Health

If one relationship between these diseases really is abnormal protein aggregation, then discovering ways to prevent aggregation, or the processes set in motion by the aggregation, may halt the disease process. (references)

Economic History

Burundi

The 1965 assassination of the Hutu prime minister set in motion a series of destabilizing Hutu revolts and subsequent governmental repression. (references)

Philippines

The assassination of opposition leader Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino upon his return to the Philippines in 1983, after a long period of exile, coalesced popular dissatisfaction with Marcos and set in motion a succession of events that culminated in a snap presidential election in February 1986. The opposition united under Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino, and Salvador Laurel, head of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO). (references)

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Arabic 

‏تورط (be embroiled, concern, dip, embroilment, get into hot water, get involved, get stuck, involvement, mire, mix). (various references)

Chinese 

開動 (march, move, start). (various references)

Czech

rozhýbat (bestir, work). (various references)

French

mettre en marche (set going, set in operation, set to work). (various references)

German

in gang setzen (activate, launch, prompt, put in motion, to get something going, to launch, to put in train, to start up), in gang bringen (actuate, get going, get off the ground, get under way, put in motion, set going), in bewegung sein. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"פעיל (activate, actuate, bring into play, operate, ply, start, trigger, turn on, wield, work), ל�"� יע (activate, disturb, drive, impel, induce, motivate, prompt, propel, stir, urge). (various references)

Hungarian

mozgásba hoz (power, to activate, to actuate, to put in motion, to set in motion). (various references)

Italian

azionare (actuate, apply, drive, move, operate, power, set going, spring, work). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

動かす (to change, to deny, to influence, to inspire, to mobilize, to move, to operate, to rouse, to set in motion, to shift). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

う�"かす (to change, to deny, to influence, to inspire, to mobilize, to move, to operate, to rouse, to set in motion, to shift). (various references)

Pig Latin

etsay inay otionmay

Romanian

pune în mişcare (actuate, bring to bear, drive, gear, move, set afoot, set agoing, work), porni (begin, commence, goad, move, put away, sail, set, stand, start, start for, take to, unleash, urge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokrenuti (float, initiate, move, propel, restart, start up). (various references)

Turkish

harekete geçirmek (activate, actuate, arouse, deploy, edge on, Energize, fillip, give a fillip to, impel, prompt, rally, set going, spark, whack up). (various references)

moliaris, moliebantur, moliebatur, molimur, molirentur, mota, motabilem, motio. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: monitions, monotints, noontimes, ointments.

-3 letters: emotions, mentions, mintiest, monition, monotint, mooniest, noontime, ointment, tinniest, tinstone, tontines.

-4 letters: emotion, inosite, intents, intines, intones, ionones, isotone, mention, mestino, minions, minnies, mitiest, mittens, moisten, moonset, motions, mottoes, noisome, notions, sentimo, smitten, tennist, tension, testoon, tiniest, toniest, tontine, tootsie.

-5 letters: eonism, imines, inions, inmost, intent, intime, intine, intone.

+2 letters: monetizations, nonmotilities.

+3 letters: misorientation, monotonicities.

+4 letters: demonetizations, misorientations, remonetizations.

+5 letters: antievolutionism, codeterminations, decontaminations, intermodulations, introspectionism, magnetostriction, montmorillonites, recontaminations.