move

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
2. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act
3. (intransitive) 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.
4. (ergative, transitive) 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
5. (transitive) To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
6. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
7. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
8. (intransitive, transitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
9. (obsolete, transitive) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
10. (obsolete, transitive) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
11. (obsolete, transitive) To apply to, as for aid.
12. (intransitive, transitive) To request an action from the court.
13. (intransitive, obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
14. (transitive) To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
15. (transitive) To transfer the value of one object in memory to another efficiently (i.e., without copying it in entirety).

Noun

1. The act of moving; a movement.
2. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
3. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
4. The event of changing one's residence.
5. A change in strategy.
6. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
7. The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
8. (plural-normally) A round, in which each player has a turn.
9. Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction

Synonyms

go

shift

stir

shake

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transfer

remove

touch

relocate

displace

walk

🚶

travel

budge

affect

change

motion

proceed

movement

act

actuate

pass

migrate

step

run

change residence

propel

turn

action

swing

play

work

push

transport

carry

switch

take

wave

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operate

convey

agitate

drive

lead

removal

influence

motivate

tremble

hit

resettle

set in motion

propose

maneuver

Translations

bouger

mover

bewegen

déplacer

bewegen

muoversi

muovere

spostare

remuer

déménager

mouvoir

umziehen

moverse

mover

movimento

Pronounced as (IPA)

/muːv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: moven

Cognate with Lithuanian: mauti

Cognate with Sanskrit: मीवति

Cognate with Middle Dutch: mouwe

In summary

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 (“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”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.