motion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
entertainment
human-sciences
law
lifestyle
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
music
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: motions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: motions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: motioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: motioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: motioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A change whereby something goes from one place to another; a state of progression from one place to another; a change of position with respect to time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion.
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.
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.
gloss: A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The motion to amend is now open for discussion.
Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.
gloss: An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.
gloss: A puppet, or puppet show.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: What motion's this? the model of Nineveh?
gloss: A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [...] 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.
gloss: Success; achievements, especially those that others cannot match.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: You've never got no motion, lad / You've never got no action
gloss: To gesture indicating a desired movement.
pos: verb
examples: He motioned for me to come closer.
Mom motioned me over and ordered me to sit by her side.
After spending a few paragraphs blasting Obamacare, including motioning directly at the Democrats during his sharpest condemnations, the president laid down a few markers for what he wanted to see replace the current system.
gloss: To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
pos: verb
tags: proscribed
gloss: To make a proposal; to offer plans.
pos: verb
examples: Here's Gloucester, a foe to citizens,
One that still motions war and never peace
Related words: emotion
motile
motive
move
movement
stop-motion
Derived words: accelerated motion
all motion and no meat
angular motion
biomotion
Brownian motion
canon by contrary motion
Clayton motion
confidence motion
countermotion
Daubert motion
diurnal motion
early day motion
egomotion
electromotion
electro-motion
equation of motion
flowmotion
flow motion
full motion video
full-motion video
go through the motions
gyromotion
harmonic motion
ideomotion
idiomotion
in motion
link motion
loose motion
lost motion
man in motion
mean motion
mere motion
micromotion
midmotion
mismotion
MJPEG
monkey motion
motionable
motional
motion and time study
motion blindness
motion blur
motion-capture
motion capture
motion controller
motion design
motion designer
motion detector
motion discomfort
motionist
motionless
motion lotion
motion of confidence
motion of no confidence
motion of someone's ocean
motion parallax
motion picture
motion sickness
motion test
motionwork
nervimotion
no-confidence motion
nonmotion
oblique motion
oculomotion
own motion
parallax motion
parallel motion
pass motion
peculiar motion
perpetual motion
perpetual motion machine
perpetual motion machine of the first kind
perpetual motion machine of the second kind
poetry in motion
premotion
proper motion
put in motion
quantity of motion
range of motion
reed motion
retrograde motion
screen motion capture
self-motion
set in motion
set the wheels in motion
simple harmonic motion
slow-motion
slow motion
space motion
state of motion
stereomotion
stop motion
swing motion
time-and-motion expert
time and motion expert
time and motion study
time-and-motion study
time-motion study
trainwreck in slow motion
vasomotion
of motion
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