movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːv.mənt/
Forms: form: movements
form: mov.
raw_tags: used in music
form: movt
raw_tags: used in music
form: mvmt
raw_tags: used in music
form: mvt
raw_tags: used in music
Etymology: From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring.
Morphologically move + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
synonyms: motion
antonyms: stasis
glosses: Physical motion between points in space.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
glosses: The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
examples: text: social movement
text: The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
text: During the latter part of Taiwan's authoritarian period, social protest movements arose that complemented the periodic efforts of the political opposition- the dangwai-to open the political system. One of the most prominent movements occurred in the town of Lukang in Changhua County in 1986.
ref: 2021, Richard C. Bush, Difficult Choices: Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274:
glosses: A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
examples: text: Beethoven's movements
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A large division of a larger composition.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
examples: text: Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
examples: text: The movement on his cutter was devastating.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
examples: text: when after a movement feces are streaked with blood and the patient suffers from sphincter algia, a fissure should be suspected,
ref: 1923, Samuel Goodwin Gant, Diseases of the Rectum, Anus, and Colon, Including the Ileocolic Angle, page 47:
glosses: Ellipsis of bowel movement (“an act of emptying the bowels”).
glosses: Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
Derived terms: aftermovement
aircraft movement
A-movement
antimovement
art movement
beta movement
bowel movement
Brownian movement
camera movement
choreiform movement
civil rights movement
comovement
countermovement
criminal religious movement
cultural movement
ecomovement
ecumenical movement
eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
freedom of movement
free school movement
head movement
holiness movement
holomovement
Howell movement
human movement
human potential movement
involuntary movement
Jesus movement
literary movement
march-movement
micromovement
midmovement
Mitchell movement
movement control order
movement disorder
multimovement
new religious movement
nonmovement
of its proper movement
Oxford movement
perimovement
photomovement
pincer movement
postmovement
premovement
Protestant Movement
rapid eye movement
social movement
streaming movement
submovement
temperance movement
voluntary movement
wh-movement
youth movement
Related terms: word: speed
word: symphony
word: vector
word: velocity
topics: literature
publishing
media
word: The Movement