Motion

['məʊʃ(ə)n] or ['moʃən]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the act of changing location from one place to another; 'police controlled the motion of the crowd'; 'the movement of people from the farms to the cities'; 'his move put him directly in my path'.

(noun.) a change of position that does not entail a change of location; 'the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise'; 'movement is a sign of life'; 'an impatient move of his hand'; 'gastrointestinal motility'.

(noun.) a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; 'he made a motion to adjourn'; 'she called for the question'.

(noun.) a state of change; 'they were in a state of steady motion'.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.

(n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.

(n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.

(n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.

(n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

(n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.

(n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.

(n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.

(n.) A puppet show or puppet.

(v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.

(v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.

(v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.

(v. t.) To propose; to move.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. [Opposed to Rest.] Movement, action, passage, change of place.[2]. Impulse, prompting, suggestion.[3]. Proposition (especially one made in a deliberative body), proposal.

柏格編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

[See MOVEMENT]

伯特兰校對

解釋/意思:

n. the act or state of moving: a single movement: change of posture: gait: power of moving or of being moved: angular velocity—direct when from west to east; retrograde when from east to west: excitement of the mind: any natural impulse instigation: proposal made esp. in an assembly: 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: evacuation of the intestine: (pl. B.) impulses.—v.i. to make a significant movement to offer a proposal.—v.t. to guide by a gesture &c.: to move.—adj. Mō′tile capable of spontaneous motion.—n. Motil′ity.—adj. Mo′tional characterised by motions.—n. Mō′tionist one who makes a motion.—adj. Mō′tionless without motion.—Absolute motion change of absolute place; Accelerated motion motion of which the velocity is continually increasing; Angular motion motion regarded as measured by the increase of the angle made with some standard direction by a line drawn from the moving object to a fixed point; 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; Parallel motion (see Parallel); Perpetual motion (see Perpetual); Quantity of motion momentum.

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