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| NOUN | 1 | motion, movement | A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
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| 2 | motion, gesture | The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals | |
| 3 | motion, movement, move, motility | A change of position that does not entail a change of location | |
| 4 | motion | A state of change | |
| 5 | motion, question | A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote | |
| 6 | motion, movement, move | The act of changing location from one place to another | |
| 7 | motion, apparent motion, apparent movement, movement | An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object | |
| VERB | 1 | motion, gesticulate, gesture | Show, express or direct through movement |
| Sounds | mow'shahn |
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| Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. |
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| Synonyms | movement |
| Narrower | crustal movement, tectonic movement; approach, approaching; passing, passage; deflection, deflexion; bending, bend; change of location, travel; wave, undulation; periodic motion, periodic movement; heave; recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash; recoil, kick; seek; squeeze, wring; throw, stroke, cam stroke; turning, turn; twist, wrench; undulation; wave, moving ridge; wobble; whirl, commotion; Brownian movement, Brownian motion, pedesis |
| Broader | happening, occurrence, natural event |
| Adjectives | motional |
| Meaning | The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals. |
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| Synonyms | gesture |
| Narrower | sign; gesticulation; beck; facial expression, facial gesture; flourish; high-five; previous question; shrug; wave, waving, wafture; V sign; nod; bow, bowing, obeisance; sign of the cross |
| Broader | visual communication |
| Verbs | motion |
| Meaning | A change of position that does not entail a change of location. |
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| Examples | "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise" |
| Synonyms | movement, move, motility |
| Narrower | abduction; adduction; agitation; body English; circumduction; disturbance; fetal movement, foetal movement; flit, dart; gesture; headshake, headshaking; inclination, inclining; inversion, eversion, everting; inversion, upending; jerk, jerking, jolt; kick, kicking; kneel, kneeling; lurch, pitch, pitching; nystagmus; opening; prostration; reach, reaching, stretch; reciprocation; reclining; retraction; retroflection, retroflexion; rotation, rotary motion; shutting, closing; sitting; sitting, posing; snap; squat, squatting; sweep; toss; vibration, quiver, quivering; wave; waver, flutter, flicker; standing; straddle, span; stroke; wiggle, wriggle, squirm; eurythmy, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurhythmics |
| Broader | change |
| Verbs | move |
| Meaning | A state of change. |
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| Examples | "they were in a state of steady motion" |
| Attributes | moving; nonmoving, unmoving |
| Narrower | shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitation; perpetual motion; precession; stream, flow |
| Broader | state |
| Contrary | motionlessness, stillness |
| Verbs | move |
| Meaning | A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote. |
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| Examples | "he made a motion to adjourn" |
| Synonyms | question |
| Broader | proposal |
| Meaning | The act of changing location from one place to another. |
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| Examples | "police controlled the motion of the crowd" |
| Synonyms | movement, move |
| Narrower | approach, approaching, coming; progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion; locomotion, travel; lurch, lunge; travel, traveling, travelling; pursuit, chase, following; rise, ascent, ascension, ascending; descent; swing, swinging, vacillation; return; slide, glide, coast; slippage; flow, stream; crawl; speed, speeding, hurrying; translation, displacement; shift, shifting; haste, hurry, rush, rushing; maneuver, manoeuvre, play; migration |
| Broader | change |
| Verbs | move |
| Meaning | An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object. |
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| Examples | "the cinema relies on apparent motion" |
| Synonyms | apparent motion, apparent movement, movement |
| Broader | optical illusion |
| Meaning | Show, express or direct through movement. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s to somebody |
| Synonyms | gesticulate, gesture |
| Entailed by | salute, present |
| Narrower | wink; exsert, stretch out, put out, extend, hold out, stretch forth; shrug; clap, spat; applaud, clap, spat, acclaim; bless, sign; nod; cross oneself; bow, bow down; shake; beckon, wave |
| Broader | communicate, intercommunicate |
| Nouns | motion |