move
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mo͞ov
ipa: /muːv/
ipa: /myv/
rhymes: -uːv
Forms: form: moves
form: moving
form: moved
form: moved
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: move
form: move
form: moved
form: move
form: movest
form: moved
form: movedst
form: moves
form: moveth
form: moved
form: move
form: moved
form: move
form: moved
form: move
form: -
form: moving
form: moved
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 ship moves rapidly.
text: I was sitting on the sofa for a long time, feeling too lazy to move.
text: God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
ref: 1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] , 4th edition, page 252:
text: Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
ref: 1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy, page 95:
synonyms: word: shift
word: stir
word: adjust
word: disrupt
word: disturb
word: move
word: place
word: position
word: put
word: relocate
word: reposition
word: set
word: shift
word: station
word: transfer
word: transpose
glosses: To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
examples: text: to move in a matter
text: Come on guys, let's move: there's work to do!
synonyms: get moving
stir
take action
glosses: To act; to take action; to begin to act
examples: text: I decided to move to the country for a more peaceful life.
text: They moved closer to work to cut down commuting time.
text: I'm moving next week but I don't have anything packed yet.
text: He then moved from Nanking to Wuhan and finally to Chungking, but when his health deteriorated, he went to Chiang-chin, a small village near Chungking, for recuperation. There he died on 27 March 1942.
ref: 1986, Wen-shun Chi, “Ch’en Tu-hsiu (1879-1942)”, in Ideological Conflicts in Modern China: Democracy and Authoritarianism, published 1992, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:
synonyms: flit
move house
remove
shift
glosses: To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
examples: text: The waves moved the boat up and down.
text: The horse moves a carriage.
synonyms: drive
impel
propel
stir
glosses: To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
examples: text: She moved the queen closer to the centre of the board.
text: He rolled a 5 and moved his counter to Boardwalk, the most expensive property on the Monopoly board.
topics: board-games
chess
games
qualifier: board games
glosses: To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
examples: text: This song moves me to dance.
text: Seducer of the People, not moved with the Piety of his Life
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
text: No female arts his mind could move.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: entice
induce
inveigle
persuade
sway
glosses: To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
examples: text: That book really moved me.
text: When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 9:36:
synonyms: affect
excite
touch
trouble
glosses: To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
examples: text: I move to repeal the rule regarding obligatory school uniform.
text: Two days were thus wasted in the quarrel between the consuls. It was clear that while Faminius was present no decision could be arrived at. Owing to Flaminius' absence through illness, Aemilius seized the opportunity to move a resolution which the senate adopted. Its purport was that the Ambracians should have all their property restored to them; they should be free to live under their own laws; they should impose such harbour dues and other imposts by land and sea as they desired, provided that the Romans and their Italian allies were exempt.
ref: 1905, Livy, translated by Canon Roberts, From the Founding of the City, Book 38:
text: Let me but move one question to your daughter.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: And therefore they are to be blamed alike, both who moue and who decline warre[…]
ref: 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth:
glosses: To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
synonyms: word: bring up
word: mention
word: move
word: reference
word: toss up
word: touch
word: touch on
glosses: To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
examples: text: "Sir," seyde Sir Boys, "ye nede nat to meve me of such maters, for well ye wote I woll do what I may to please you."
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
text: The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, […]
Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
synonyms: word: motivate
word: provoke
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
glosses: To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
examples: text: To me she speaks; she moves me for her them
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To apply to, as for aid.
examples: text: An attorney moved the court to issue a restraining order.
text: The district attorney moved for a non-suit.
topics: law
glosses: To request an action from the court.
glosses: To bow or salute upon meeting.
examples: text: This business will fail if it can't move the inventory quickly.
topics: business
glosses: To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
examples: text: We didn’t really want a copy; we just wanted to get the result out of a function: we wanted to move a Vector rather than to copy it.
ref: 2013, Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, 4th edition, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, 3.3.2, page 75:
text: In Rust, for most types, operations like assigning a value to a variable, passing it to a function, or returning it from a function don’t copy the value: they move it.
ref: 2018, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, chapter 4, in Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, O’Reilly, →ISBN, page 77:
text: In this paper, we focus on two specific move related issues: using an entity which has already been moved hence making it invalid, and calling move operations when doing so will not have any effect on how the program executes
ref: 2023 September, Attila Gyén, Dániel Kolozsvári, Norbert Pataki, “Code Comprehension for the Move Semantics in C++”, in Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications, Bratislava, Slovakia: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, →ISSN, page 3:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To transfer the value of one object in memory to another efficiently (i.e., without copying it in entirety).
Synonyms: word: budge
word: interchange
word: move
word: rearrange
word: redistribute
word: relocate
word: shift
word: stir
word: transfer
word: travel
Hyponyms: word: burrow
word: climb
word: creep
word: crawl
word: drive
word: hop
word: jump
word: fly
word: ride
word: roll
word: run
word: sail
word: slide
word: slither
word: swim
word: teleport
word: walk
word: move quickly
word: move slowly
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: angels moving the furniture
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: anything that moves
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: café de move-on
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: CHAdeMO
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: comove
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: earth-moving
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: ever-moving
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: faith can move mountains
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: faith will move mountains
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: fast-moving
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: foremove
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: get moving
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: inmove
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: keep it moving
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: match moving
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: mismove
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: movability
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: movable
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: movableness
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: movably
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: movant
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move about
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move ahead
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move along
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move around
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move away
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move back
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moved in
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move down
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move down a notch
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move down a peg
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move forward
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move furniture
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word: move heaven and earth
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move house
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move in
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move in on
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move into
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move it
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move it or lose it
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: movement
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move mountains
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: movent
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move off
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move on
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move one's arse
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move one's ass
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move one's bum
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move one's butt
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move one's body
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move one's bowels
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moveout
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move out
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move out to move up
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move over
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: mover
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move sideways
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move someone to tears
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move south
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move the chains
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move the deckchairs on the Titanic
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move the dial
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move the goal posts
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move the goalposts
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move the needle
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move the problem
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word: move the yardsticks
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move through the gears
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move to
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move up
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: move up in the world
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word: move with
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word: move with the times
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word: movie
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving average
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word: moving box
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word: moving forward
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: movingly
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: movingness
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving part
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word: moving picture
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word: moving-picture theater
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word: moving ramp
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word: moving screen
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving sidewalk
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word: moving spirit
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving staircase
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving target
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving truck
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving van
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving violation
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving walkway
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: moving wallpaper
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: piggy move up
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: remove
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: slow-moving
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: the spirit moves someone
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: touch move
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: touch-move rule
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: transmove
sense: Terms derived from move (verb)
word: unmove