motion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈmoʊ.ʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: motions
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mocioun, mocion, from Anglo-Norman motion, Middle French motion, and their etymon Latin mōtiō (“movement, motion”), related to movēre, from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move”).
Senses: examples: text: Several parties of hop-pickers joined the train at the intermediate stations, and the guard performed the acrobatic feat of walking along the footboards of the coaches to examine tickets, while the train was in motion.
ref: 1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Kent & East Sussex Railway Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 182:
synonyms: movement
antonyms: rest
glosses: A state of progression from one place to another.
examples: text: This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion.
ref: 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A change of position with respect to time.
examples: 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:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: move
movement
antonyms: rest
glosses: A change from one place to another.
examples: text: The motion to amend is now open for discussion.
text: Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
examples: text: when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had bin else a meer artificiall Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
glosses: An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
examples: text: I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical life to the more considerable effects of general Motion in Minerals, Metalls, and sundry Meteors, whose easie and rude shapes may have no need of any Principle of Life, or Spermatical form distinct from the Rest or Motion of the particles of the Matter.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
examples: text: Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
topics: law
glosses: A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
examples: text: From that time to the present (three weeks) she has taken one pill every night, and had one comfortable motion every morning without the aid of any other aperient, and her health has much improved.
ref: 1857, William Braithwaite, The Retrospect of Medicine:
glosses: A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
examples: text: The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.
ref: 1878, George Grove, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
examples: text: What motion's this? the model of Nineveh?
ref: c. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
glosses: A puppet, or puppet show.
examples: text: [...] three 2-4-2 tank engines were secured from the Hunslet Engine Co. of Leeds. As the line began on the Quay in Bideford, the locomotives had their motion encased, as shown in the illustrations on page 414.
ref: 1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Bideford, Westward Ho! & Appledore Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
Derived terms: word: accelerated motion
word: all motion and no meat
word: angular motion
word: biomotion
word: Brownian motion
word: canon by contrary motion
word: Clayton motion
word: confidence motion
word: countermotion
word: Daubert motion
word: diurnal motion
word: early day motion
word: egomotion
word: electromotion
word: electro-motion
word: equation of motion
word: flowmotion
word: flow motion
word: full motion video
word: full-motion video
word: go through the motions
word: gyromotion
word: harmonic motion
word: ideomotion
word: idiomotion
word: in motion
word: link motion
word: loose motion
word: lost motion
word: man in motion
word: mean motion
word: mere motion
word: micromotion
word: midmotion
word: mismotion
word: MJPEG
word: monkey motion
word: motionable
word: motional
word: motion and time study
word: motion blindness
word: motion blur
word: motion-capture
word: motion capture
word: motion controller
word: motion design
word: motion designer
word: motion detector
word: motion discomfort
word: motionist
word: motionless
word: motion lotion
word: motion of confidence
word: motion of no confidence
word: motion of someone's ocean
word: motion parallax
word: motion picture
word: motion sickness
word: motion test
word: motionwork
word: nervimotion
word: no-confidence motion
word: nonmotion
word: oblique motion
word: oculomotion
word: own motion
word: parallax motion
word: parallel motion
word: pass motion
word: perpetual motion
word: perpetual motion machine
word: perpetual motion machine of the first kind
word: perpetual motion machine of the second kind
word: poetry in motion
word: premotion
word: proper motion
word: put in motion
word: quantity of motion
word: range of motion
word: reed motion
word: retrograde motion
word: screen motion capture
word: self-motion
word: set in motion
word: set the wheels in motion
word: simple harmonic motion
word: slow-motion
word: slow motion
word: space motion
word: state of motion
word: stereomotion
word: stop motion
word: swing motion
word: time-and-motion expert
word: time and motion expert
word: time and motion study
word: time-and-motion study
word: time-motion study
word: trainwreck in slow motion
word: vasomotion
word: of motion