move /moov/

1. To cause to change place or posture
2. To set in motion
3. To impel
4. To excite to action
5. To cause (the bowels) to be evacuated
6. To persuade
7. To instigate
8. To arouse
9. To provoke
10. To provoke to anger (obsolete; now move to anger or move anger in)
11. To touch the feelings or sentiments of
12. To propose formally before those present at a meeting
13. To recommend
14. To sell (informal)

1. To go from one place to another
2. To change place or posture
3. To walk, to carry oneself
4. To change residence
5. To make a motion as in an assembly
6. To bow or salute on meeting (archaic)
7. To begin to act
8. To take action
9. To become active or exciting (informal)
10. To travel fast (informal)
11. To hurry up (informal)
12. To be sold (informal)
13. To go about one's activities, live one's life, pass one's time
14. In chess, draughts, etc, to transfer a piece in one's turn to another square
15. (of the bowels) to be evacuated

1. An act of moving
2. A beginning of movement
3. A proceeding or step, a manoeuvre
4. The changing of one's residence or business premises
5. Play in turn, as at chess
6. (in chess, draughts, etc) one's turn to play
7. Advantage depending on whose turn it is to play
8. The manner in which a chess piece or other playing-piece is or can be moved

movabilˈity or moveabilˈity noun

movable or (esp law) moveable /moovˈə-bl/ adjective

1. Mobile
2. Changeable
3. Not fixed
4. Other than heritable (Scots law)

1. (esp in pl) a portable piece of furniture
2. A piece of movable or moveable property (Scots law)

movˈableness or moveˈableness noun

movˈably or moveˈably adverb

moveˈless adjective

1. Motionless, immobile
2. Immovable

moveˈlessly adverb

moveˈlessness noun

moveˈment noun

1. An act or manner of moving
2. Change of position
3. An action or gesture
4. Activity
5. Impulse
6. An evacuation of the bowels, or the matter evacuated
7. Motion of the mind, emotion
8. The moving parts in a mechanism, esp the wheelwork of a clock or watch
9. Melodic progression
10. Accentual character (prosody)
11. Tempo or pace
12. A main division of an extended musical composition, with its own more or less independent structure
13. The suggestion of motion conveyed by a work of art
14. A general tendency or current of thought, opinion, taste or action, whether organized and consciously propagated or a mere drift

movˈer noun

movˈing adjective

1. Causing motion
2. Changing position
3. Affecting the feelings, sentiments or sympathies
4. Pathetic

movˈingly adverb

movable feast see under feast

movement chart noun

A chart plotting the movements of staff and documents within an office, intended to improve efficiency

movement therapist noun

A specialist in movement therapy, a physical therapy for the mentally or physically disabled aimed at developing or improving voluntary body movements

moving average noun

A sequence of values derived from an earlier sequence from which a mean was taken of each successive group of values with a constant number of members

movˈing-coil adjective

Of, or relating to, electrical equipment that incorporates a coil of wire so placed within a magnetic field as either to vibrate when current is passed through it, or to generate a current when vibrated

moving map noun

A map used on board a ship or aircraft that adjusts to keep the position of the moving vessel always in correspondence with a fixed centre point on the map

moving pavement or moving walkway noun

(in an airport, etc) a moving strip set into the floor that carries pedestrians along as though on a conveyor belt

moving pictures plural noun

1. The cinema
2. Cinema films in general

moving staircase noun

An escalator

get a move on

1. To hurry up
2. To make progress

know a move or two

To be sharp or streetwise

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