Motion
['məʊʃ(ə)n] or ['moʃən]
Definition
(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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Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MOVEMENT]
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Definition
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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Examples
- One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A motion-picture film is a thin ribbon of transparent pyroxylin plastic or nitrocellulose, which is highly inflammable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For example, I said, can the same thing be at rest and in motion at the same time in the same part? Plato. The Republic.
- It was all done in dumb show, the women danced their emotion in gesture and motion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That of the evolution of motion pictures follows. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He made some motion with his mouth, and seemed to think he had spoken; but he had only pointed to her with his outstretched hand. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The motions of these men were slow and solemn, as if there impended over their souls some preconception of horror and of cruelty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There was as much variety in her motions as in their flight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They all sat down in a circle about me, the better to observe my motions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- There was something grand and majestic in her motions, but nothing persuasive, nothing amiable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Diminutive, whispered Miss Flite, making a variety of motions about her own forehead to express intellect in Charley. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He had introduced himself to Adrian, by a request he made to observe some planetary motions from his glass. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Wireless signals are in reality wave motions in the magnetic forces of the earth, or, in other words, disturbances of those forces. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- At the same time he motioned his followers to advance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I then knelt down beside the fearsome-looking thing, and raising it to its feet motioned for it to follow me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But he said nothing respecting it, and motioned me with a nod into my guardian's room. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There was a chair just under the lamp, and the elderly man motioned that I should sit in it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He laid his hand upon the coffin, and mechanically adjusting the pall with which it was covered, motioned them onward. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The nurses who were sitting at the rail motioned for me to come down where they were. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He motioned to him to hold up his glass, and filled it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He removed his hunting knife from its sheath and handed it to her hilt first, again motioning her into the bower. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Motioning them to advance, he closed the door when they had entered; and gently drew back the curtains of the bed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Motioning them to remain where they were, the turnkey knocked at one of these with his bunch of keys. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- On her motioning Yes, with the same hasty gesture as before, I stopped an empty coach that was coming by, and we got into it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Why then, sir,' said Stephen, turning white, and motioning with that right hand of his, as if he gave everything to the four winds, ''_tis_ a muddle. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Motioning her to follow, Tarzan walked toward the trees at the edge of the arena, and taking her in one strong arm swung to the branches above. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Her friend,' resumed the old man, motioning towards Lizzie; 'and as industrious as virtuous. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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