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motion /mōˈshən/ noun- The act, state or manner of changing place
- A single movement
- Change of posture
- Power of moving or of being moved
- Agitation
- A natural impulse
- A working in the mind
- A feeling, an emotion (obsolete)
- A prompting, an instigation (obsolete)
- A formal proposal put before a meeting
- An application to a court, during a case before it, for an order or rule that something be done, esp something incidental to the progress of the cause rather than its issue (law)
- Evacuation of the bowels
- A piece of mechanism
- Progression of a part (music)
- A puppet show (obsolete)
- A puppet (Shakespeare)
- (usu in pl) faeces
transitive verb- To direct or indicate by a gesture
- To move, propose
- To make a movement indicating as one's intention (obsolete)
- To give motion to
intransitive verb To offer a proposal ORIGIN: Fr motion, from L mōtiō, -ōnis, from movēre, mōtum to move mōˈtional adjective mōˈtionist noun (Milton) A person who is good at making suggestions or recommendations mōˈtionless adjective Without motion mōˈtionlessly adverb motion capture noun (in film) a technique in which the movements of actors are recorded as the basis of those of computer-generated characters mōˈtion-man noun (obsolete) A puppeteer motion picture noun (chiefly US) A cinema film motion sickness same as travel sickness (see under travel). angular motion Change of angle between a standard direction and a line joining the moving object and a fixed point go through the motions - To make a half-hearted attempt
- To pretend
laws of motion - Newton's three laws: (1) every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state
- (2) change of motion is proportional to force applied, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts
- (3) to every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction
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