movement

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) Physical motion between points in space.
2. (countable, uncountable) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
3. (countable, uncountable) The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
4. (countable, uncountable) A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
5. (countable, uncountable) A large division of a larger composition.
6. (countable, uncountable) Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
7. (countable, uncountable) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
8. (countable, uncountable) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
9. (countable, uncountable) A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of bowel movement (“an act of emptying the bowels”).
11. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

Synonyms

motion

action

move

activity

trend

campaign

shift

behaviour

travel

work

moving

cause

deed

traffic

drift

transference

gesture

going

stroke

ways

removal

drive

doing

shaking

🫨

works

bowel movement

motility

location

effort

displacement

passage

crusade

stir

habits

migration

social movement

locomotion

conduct

bm

manners

actions

deeds

transfer

habit

step

doings

flapping

way

movements

workings

course of action

agitation

stirring

sweep

front

operation

tendency

orientation

piece

deportment

wave

👋

process

manner of life

redeployment

bearing

actuation

part

bodily movement

apparent motion

apparent movement

course

flap

translation

play

plying

portion

procedure

progress

proposal

reflex

relocation

remove

removing

retreat

riding

school

🏫

secondment

section

segment

set

shake up

share

shifting

shitting

situation

space

sports

state

strategy

substitution

sway

switch

talent

technique

throbbing

throwing

tome

tossing

transferring

transition

translocation

transplant

transportation

traveling

twist

vibration

vital

volume

wag

wind

BM

in a circle

moving about

displase

kinesi

development

mobility

motivation

organisation

transplantation

transport

act of going

changes in an account

kinesio-

motus

kineto-

cinesi

defaecation

ability

achievement

acting

adjournment

advance

agency

ambulation

animation

apparatus

army

assignment

association

attitude

beating

behavior

bit

business concern

casting

change

coalition

commutation

component

component part

conjugation

constituent

crowd

current

defecation

dynamics

element

end

🔚

enginery

excreting

excursion

exercise

feeling

flow

frequenting

function

functioning

gait

gang

inclination

inclusion

inflection

ingredient

instalment

journeying

kinesis

labor

labour

laxation

limb

lobby

lot

machine

machinery

maneuver

manner

measure

mechanics

mobilization

mutiny

navigation

operations

organization

oscillation

palpitation

parcel

party

🥳

pass

physical exercises

Translations

mouvement

movimiento

Bewegung

beweging

déplacement

Satz

slag

hareket

zet

tendance

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmuːv.mənt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mevement

Cognate with French: mouvement

In summary

From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring.
Morphologically move + -ment.

Sentences

He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement .

This version of Polar Boy can only slow molecular movement .

King relies on quick strikes , good movement , and a very good view on punishment .

Horizontal transfer is the movement of technologies from one area to another .

She scurries about with a crab-like movement .

Judge and mend the schism in the Theosophical Movement .