move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mo͞ov
ipa: /muːv/
ipa: /myv/
rhymes: -uːv
Forms: form: moves
form: meve
form: mieve
form: mooue
form: moove
Etymology: From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.
Senses: examples: text: A slight move of the tiller, and the boat will go off course.
text: The drummer Cynthia praised her best friends' dance moves to the music.
text: Lord John had followed me. "By George, young fellah!" said he, pulling off his coat. "You've hit on a dooced good notion. Give me a grip and we'll soon have a move on it." But, even then, so heavy was the bell that it was not until Challenger and Summerlee had added their weight to ours that we heard the roaring and clanging above our heads which told us that the great clapper was ringing out its music.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of moving; a movement.
examples: text: He made another move towards becoming a naturalized citizen.
glosses: An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
examples: text: She always gets spontaneous applause for that one move.
text: He can win a match with that one move.
glosses: A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
examples: text: The move into my fiancé's house took two long days.
text: They were pleased about their move to the country.
text: While planning a recent move, I checked the pages of Majority Report, which lists women-owned and operated businesses and found a listing for "Truck You." […] Two women from Queens, and formerly of New Jersey GAA, Ulla and Mickey, came with their van and a successful move was accomplished without reliance on macho male bruisers.
ref: 1977 February 12, Bruce Michael Gelbert, “Some New York Alternatives”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 33, page 5:
text: From early on, he sang in the church choir, and before his move to Philadelphia in 1965, Cliff was already quite well-known in his hometown as a gospel singer.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 216:
synonyms: removal
relocation
glosses: The event of changing one's residence.
examples: text: I am worried about our boss's move.
text: It was a smart move to bring on a tall striker to play against the smaller defenders.
glosses: A change in strategy.
examples: text: Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland.
ref: 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:
glosses: A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
examples: text: The best move of the game was when he sacrificed his rook in order to gain better possession.
text: It's your move! Roll the dice!
text: If you roll a six, you can make two moves.
synonyms: play
qualifier: board games
glosses: The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
examples: text: You can win in three moves if you do that.
qualifier: board games
glosses: A round, in which each player has a turn.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction
Hyponyms: book move
camera move
career-limiting move
clock move
countermove
dance move
dick move
false move
finishing move
forcing move
Kirby move
only move
opening move
Pachner move
postmove
power move
premove
quiet move
Reidemeister move
special move
transmove
waiting move
Derived terms: bust a move
down to every move on the board
fifty-move rule
get a move on
make a move
make the first move
moveless
movelessly
movelessness
moveset
multimove
must-move
on the move
outmove
put the moves on