movements

n. activities of a person

n. act of moving, motion; specific type of motion, step (in dance, sports, etc.); organization or group of people with a common goal or ideology; musical piece; repositioning; moving parts of a mechanism; defecation

Movement may refer to:Motion, change in positionLocomotion, active movement or travelTransport, the movement of people, goods, signals and informationDefecation, sometimes called a bowel movementMovement (clockwork), all the main parts of a watchNastic movements, rapid, reversible responses to non-directional stimuliIntermittent mechanism, the device by which film is regularly advanced in a movie camera or projector Wh-movement, a syntactic phenomenonMovements (sacred dances), collected or authored by G. I. GurdjieffThe Movement (literature), writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, et. al
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Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) motion, move, motility
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) abduction
(derivation) move
2. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
(synonym) motion
(hypernym) happening, occurrence, natural event
(hyponym) crustal movement, tectonic movement
(derivation) travel, go, move, locomote
3. 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"
(synonym) motion, move
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) approach, approaching, coming
(derivation) travel, go, move, locomote
4. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"
(synonym) social movement, front
(hypernym) social group
(hyponym) Free French, Fighting French
5. a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic"
(hypernym) musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
(hyponym) intermezzo
(part-holonym) sonata
6. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort"
(synonym) campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort
(hypernym) venture
(hyponym) advertising campaign, ad campaign, ad blitz
7. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
(synonym) apparent motion, motion, apparent movement
(hypernym) optical illusion
8. a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement"
(synonym) bowel movement, bm
(hypernym) defecation, laxation, shitting
9. a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
(synonym) drift, trend
(hypernym) inclination, disposition, tendency
(hyponym) evolutionary trend
10. the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
(hypernym) action, action mechanism
(part-holonym) watch, ticker
11. the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) displacement, deracination
(derivation) move, displace