move
Meaning
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- To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- To act; to take action; to begin to act
- To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- (obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
- (obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
- (obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
- To request an action from the court.
- (obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
- To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
- To transfer the value of one object in memory to another efficiently (i.e., without copying it in entirety).
Synonyms
change residence
in motion
start moving
place elsewhere
cause to tremble
bestir oneself
change position
make a motion
walk about
be active
be in motion
change one’s residence
blow about
change place
move slightly
give a motion
way to play
displase
move aside
transit move
move quickly
push along
move about restlessly
cause to move
reach into
transfer dislocate transfer evacuate
be in movement
result in
go east
nail to
slide over
comport
act as
wishing to go
be brought to motion
continue on
set moving
business concern
St. Vitus’ dance
strike a note
switch over
move instruction
come at
change one’s abode
roam about
re-locate
change one’s place
change one’s seat
at right angles
make go
unwedge
take something
name to
backward and forward
move remove
be agitated
bear away
be busy
be effective
be efficacious
change residende
be moving
be shaken
be touched
be transferred
transmittal transport
change location
come closer
have effect
have with one
jump over
make one’s way
make progress
move away from
move out of
negociate
move camp farther along
regain consciousness
be considerate
toss about
travel around
wriggle out
go forward
go separate ways
hang down
flow swiftly
change direction
change the position of
be influenced
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/muːv/
Etymology
From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre, present active infinitive of moveō (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). More at muff. Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.
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