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move > 21 senses
NOUN1moveThe act of deciding to do something
2move, relocationThe act of changing your residence or place of business
3move, motion, movement, motilityA change of position that does not entail a change of location
4move, motion, movementThe act of changing location from one place to another
5move(game) a player's turn to move a piece or take some other permitted action
VERB1move, travel, go, locomoteChange location
2move, displaceCause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
3moveMove so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
4moveChange residence, affiliation, or place of employment
5move, go, proceedFollow a procedure or take a course
6move, be activeBe in a state of action
7moveGo or proceed from one point to another
8move, actPerform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
9move, affect, impress, strikeHave an emotional or cognitive impact upon
10move, motivate, actuate, propel, prompt, inciteGive an incentive for action
11moveArouse sympathy or compassion in
12moveDispose of by selling
13move, go, runProgress by being changed
14moveLive one's life in a specified environment
15move, goHave a turn
16move, make a motionPropose formally
move > pronunciation
Soundsmuw'v
Rhymesapprove, behoove, countermove, and 7 more rhymes in uwv at the HyperDic website...
move > noun 1, act
MeaningThe act of deciding to do something.
Examples"he didn't make a move to help"; "his first move was to hire a lawyer"
Narrowerdemarche; maneuver, manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre
Broaderdecision, determination, conclusion
Verbsmove; move
move > noun 2, act
MeaningThe act of changing your residence or place of business.
Examples"they say that three moves equal one fire"
Synonymsrelocation
Narrowerflit
Broaderchange
Verbsmove
move > noun 3, act
MeaningA change of position that does not entail a change of location.
Examples"movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"
Synonymsmotion, movement, motility
Narrowerabduction; 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
Broaderchange
Verbsmove
move > noun 4, act
MeaningThe act of changing location from one place to another.
Examples"the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"
Synonymsmotion, movement
Narrowerapproach, 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
Broaderchange
Verbsmove; move
move > noun 5, act
Meaning(game) a player's turn to move a piece or take some other permitted action.
Categorygame
Narrowerchess move
Broaderturn, play
Verbsmove
move > verb 1, motion
MeaningChange location. Move, travel, or proceed.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP
ModelThe cars move down the avenue
Examples"The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"
Synonymstravel, go, locomote
Caused bytravel, trip, jaunt
Entailed bysteer; reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain; miss
Narrowergo around, spread, circulate; carry; ease; whish; float; swap; seek; whine; fly; ride; come; ghost; betake oneself; pass over, overfly; travel; wend; do; raft; get around, get about; repair, resort; cruise; travel, journey; come, come up; round; trundle; push; travel purposefully; swing; roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond; walk, take the air; weave, wind, thread, meander, wander; forge, spurt, spirt; crawl, creep; scramble; slither, slide; wheel, roll; glide; bounce, jounce; breeze; float, drift, be adrift, blow; play; float, swim; walk; turn, move around; circle; slice into, slice through; stray, err, drift; run; step; drive, motor; automobile; ski; fly, wing; steam; taxi; ferry; ride, sit; prance; swim; rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise; ascend, go up; descend, fall, go down, come down; fall; zigzag, crank; follow, travel along; advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on; withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back; retrograde; proceed, go forward, continue; back; pan; follow; precede, lead; pursue, follow; return, go back, get back, come back; derail, jump; flock; accompany; billow; circulate; circle, circulate; angle; pass, go through, go across; travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass; travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip; speed; zoom; drive; rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along; trail, shack; shuttle; hiss, whoosh; whisk; career; circuit; lance; outflank, go around; propagate; draw; transfer, change; swash; pace; step, tread; step; hurtle; retreat; whistle; island hop; plow, plough; lurch; sift; fall; drag; run; bang; precess; travel, move around; ride; snowshoe; beetle
Contrarystay in place
Similar tomove, displace
See alsomove on; move back; move out
Nounsmotion, movement, move; movement; mover
move > verb 2, motion
MeaningCause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
ModelThey move the car down the avenue
Examples"Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
Synonymsdisplace
Cause tomove
Entailed bykick; bear; transfer
Narrowermobilize, mobilise, circulate; relocate; dislocate, luxate, splay, slip; translate; station, post, base, send, place; agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up; transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise; funnel; brandish, flourish, wave; pull, draw, force; transport, carry; tug; disarrange; expel, eject, chuck out, exclude, throw out, kick out, turf out, boot out, turn out; put, set, place, pose, position, lay; engage, mesh, lock, operate; propel, impel; launch, set in motion; wind, wrap, roll, twine; unwind, wind off, unroll; wedge, squeeze, force; work; spill, shed, disgorge; spill, slop, splatter; unseat; separate, disunite, divide, part; uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out; press down, depress; lift; flick, ruffle, riffle; work; take back; center, centre; pump; scan; jar, shake up, bump around; dandle; roll, revolve; push, force; rock, sway; fluctuate; pulse; shift, dislodge, reposition; glide; stir; play; overturn, tip over, turn over, upset, knock over, bowl over, tump over; transport, send, ship; send, direct; transport; saltate; lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down; lift, raise; raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up; drop; sink; advance, bring forward; chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off; transfer, shift; displace, force out; herd, crowd; circulate; circulate, pass around, pass on, distribute; rout out, drive out, force out, rouse; drive; race, rush; whoosh; pour; exteriorize, bring outside; upstage; swing; turn, turn over; turn; turn; slide; run; whistle; beat, flap; singsong; hustle; wash; rake; blow; drag; pull; lateralize; translate; hit, strike; change hands; transfer; expel, throw out, kick out
Similar totravel, go, move, locomote
Nounsmovement, move; mover; movement; mover
move > verb 3, motion
MeaningMove so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Something ----s something
Examples"He moved his hand slightly to the right"
Caused bymobilize, mobilise, circulate; move, displace; take out, move out, remove
Entailed byexercise, work out; bear; transplant, graft; push, force
Narrowermove involuntarily, move reflexively; quicken; stretch, stretch out; snap, click, flick; flex, bend; spread, propagate; reach, reach out; putter, potter, potter around, putter around; dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe; drop back; hit the dirt, hit the deck; gravitate; fly; move over, give way, give, ease up, yield; cut to; lurch, pitch, shift; jolt, jar; duck; bob; wallow, welter; writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist; wobble, coggle; sidle, sashay; sidle; sweep, sail; brush, sweep; wamble, waggle; chop; reciprocate; move back and forth; nod; pulsate, beat, quiver; beat, pound, thump; teeter, seesaw, totter; buck, jerk, hitch; cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch; careen, wobble, shift, tilt; churn, boil, moil, roil; steal, slip; shake, agitate; vibrate; jerk, twitch; flip, twitch; snap, click; stir, shift, budge, agitate; arouse, stir; dance; stumble, trip; falter, waver; roll, undulate, flap, wave; mill, mill about, mill around; turn; startle, jump, start; mope, mope around; hop on, mount, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on, bestride; climb; kick; jump, leap, bound, spring; bolt; get down; assume, take, strike, take up; seesaw; displace; exit, go out, get out, leave; separate, part, split; diverge; list, lean; whirl, tumble, whirl around; close, come together; bustle, bustle about, hustle; fidget; linger, dawdle; flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail; lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust; swoop; flow, flux; run, flow, feed, course; flurry; streak; heave; crash; thunder; snap; beat, flap; fling; hop; turn; dodge; dodge; throw; make way; dance; grab; cut; close
Contrarystand still
See alsomove over
Nounsmotion, movement, move
move > verb 4, motion
MeaningChange residence, affiliation, or place of employment.
PatternSomebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
ModelSam and Sue move
Examples"We moved from Idaho to Nebraska"; "The basketball player moved from one team to another"
Caused byevacuate
Entailed bysettle, locate
Narrowerrelocate; move in; move out; evacuate; migrate, transmigrate; migrate
Contrarystay, stick, stick around, stay put
Nounsmovement; move; mover
move > verb 5, social
MeaningFollow a procedure or take a course.
PatternSomething is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s PP
Synonymsgo, proceed
Narrowerwork; venture, embark; steamroller, steamroll
Broaderact, move
move > verb 6, body
MeaningBe in a state of action.
PatternSomebody ----s
Synonymsbe active
Narrowerbestir, rouse
Contraryrest
Nounsmotion; mover; move
move > verb 7, change
MeaningGo or proceed from one point to another.
PatternSomething ----s; Something is ----ing PP
Examples"the debate moved from family values to the economy"
Narrowerstep; scroll; sink, pass, lapse
Broaderchange, alter, vary
move > verb 8, social
MeaningPerform an action, or work out or perform (an action).
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
Examples"We must move quickly"
Synonymsact
Caused byincite, instigate, set off, stir up; direct; coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force; compel, oblige, obligate
Narroweralternate, take turns; finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish; rush, hasten, hurry, look sharp, festinate; interrupt, disturb; react, respond; go ahead, plow ahead; attack, aggress; force; create; come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore, come out; reward, repay, pay back; satisfice, staisfise; maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre; dispatch; evade; race; use; play it by ear; play; deal; partner; exert; egotrip; reciprocate; go, proceed, move; come close; perform; make bold, dare, presume; prosecute, engage, pursue; act on; interact; react, oppose; take time by the forelock; coact; volunteer, offer; get around to; dally, toy, play, flirt; set about, go about, approach; participate, take part; misbehave, misconduct, misdemean; condescend, stoop, lower oneself; behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry; behave, comport; try, seek, attempt, essay, assay; woo, court, romance, solicit; court; dare; effect; antagonize, antagonise, counteract; anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter; prosecute; perpetrate, commit, pull; rampage; cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage; condescend, deign, descend; condescend; take care; lord it over, queen it over, put on airs, act superior; stampede; make a point, make sure; repeat, take over; surprise; sneak; play; take; guard; begin, start; go off half-cocked, go off at half-cock; wait, hold off, hold back; continue, go on, proceed, go along, keep; do well, had best; continue; continue, persist in
Contraryrefrain, forbear
Nounsmove
move > verb 9, emotion
MeaningHave an emotional or cognitive impact upon.
PatternSomething ----s somebody
ModelThe bad news will move him; The good news will move her; The performance is likely to move Sue
Synonymsaffect, impress, strike
Cause tofeel, experience
Narrowerinfect; surprise; impress, ingrain, instill; awaken; engrave; strike dumb; zap; jar; hit home, strike home, strike a chord, strike a note; smite; cloud; pierce; impress; sweep away, sweep off; disturb, upset, trouble; touch, stir; move; sadden
Similar tomotivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite; hit, strike, come to
move > verb 10, creation
MeaningGive an incentive for action.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
ModelThey move him to write the letter
Examples"This moved me to sacrifice my career"
Synonymsmotivate, actuate, propel, prompt, incite
Broadercause, do, make
Similar toaffect, impress, move, strike; move
move > verb 11, emotion
MeaningArouse sympathy or compassion in.
PatternSomebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody
Examples"Her fate moved us all"
Broaderaffect, impress, move, strike
Similar tomotivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite
move > verb 12, possession
MeaningDispose of by selling.
PatternSomebody ----s something
Examples"The chairman of the company told the salesmen to move the computers"
Broadersell
move > verb 13, change
MeaningProgress by being changed.
PatternSomething is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP
Synonymsgo, run
Broaderchange
move > verb 14, social
MeaningLive one's life in a specified environment.
PatternSomebody ----s PP
Examples"she moves in certain circles only"
Broaderlive
move > verb 15, competition
MeaningHave a turn. Make one's move in a game.
PatternSomebody ----s
ModelSam and Sue move
Synonymsgo
Entailsplay
Entailed bycheck
Narrowerbluff, bluff out; stalemate; castle; serve; open; draw, cast; trump, ruff; manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate; check
Similar tomove, make a motion
Nounsmove
move > verb 16, communication
MeaningPropose formally. In a debate or parliamentary meeting.
PatternSomebody ----s on something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Synonymsmake a motion
Broaderpropose, suggest, advise
Similar tomove, go
Nounsmover

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