Word Finder - motion

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A state of progression from one place to another.

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• movement

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A change of position with respect to time.

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A change from one place to another.

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• move
• movement

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A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.

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The motion to amend is now open for discussion.

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An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.

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From κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.

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Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

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A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.

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A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.

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Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)

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A puppet, or puppet show.

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A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.

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To gesture indicating a desired movement.

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He motioned for me to come closer.

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To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.

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To make a proposal; to offer plans.

She shook her head and the motion brought on a dizzy spell.

Raindrops fell as if in slow motion, and lightning stayed, brighter than the midday sun.

Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind.

She tried to sit up, but the motion created a nauseating pain in her shoulder.

The zipper opened in one motion to reveal the lighted face of Fred O'Connor.

You've set in motion a course which cannot be altered.

If nothing else, we can bury motion sensors a few feet away, if you think the Others will sense anything close to the portal.

My hands felt every object and observed every motion, and in this way I learned to know many things.

The man reached down with one hand and pulled his partner to a standing position and nudged Dean forward all in one motion, burying his gun in the detective's side.

It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.

The wheels were already in motion.

He kicked Ed into motion and headed for the house.

I was never still a moment; my life was as full of motion as those little insects that crowd a whole existence into one brief day.

She follows with her hands every motion you make, and she knew that I was looking for the doll.

The slow motion world around them snapped into real time, throwing them against a wall.

The later English artists have somewhat changed the mode of communicating motion to the slides, by attaching the screws pdrmanently to the micrometer head and tapping each micrometer screw into its slide.

How full of life and motion it was!

Sensing motion, she opened her eyes to find Alex leaning across her, placing a long stemmed glass on the window sill beside her.

The world moved like it was in slow motion, giving him time to react with unnatural agility.

It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed.

In one fluid motion, he mounted Ed.

Whenever it was possible, I touched the machinery while it was in motion, so as to get a clearer idea how the stones were weighed, cut, and polished.

Energy of motion is usually called "kinetic energy."

By adopting smaller and smaller elements of motion we only approach a solution of the problem, but never reach it.

I do remember some theories concerning relativity suggesting some sort of motion in space might allow time travel if space-time geometrics are possible.

C is the clamp and M the slow motion in position angle.

She responds quickly to the gentle pressure of affection, the pat of approval, the jerk of impatience, the firm motion of command, and to the many other variations of the almost infinite language of the feelings; and she has become so expert in interpreting this unconscious language of the emotions that she is often able to divine our very thoughts.

Momentum (quantity of motion) is the product of mass and velocity.

In a single motion, she tugged open her robe and nightgown, baring both breasts, pressing Claire to her right side.

The front door was in continual motion with guests coming and going, amid laughter and boisterous conversation.

He could feel the tremor of movement in his hand, the result of some motion far below.

The old man grabbed a metal trashcan from the curb and in one motion swung it at the car, scoring a direct hit on the windshield.

She sighed and shrugged, wincing at the pain caused by the motion.

Lucas brought in a bill in his first session to effect this reform, but was defeated on the motion to have the bill sent to England for approval by the privy council; and he insisted upon the independent.

The fourth method is through the parallactic inequality in the moon's motion.

For the mean motion of the earth in one second in circular measure, we have n 8149' l o g.

Then the first of the equations of motion may be put under the form dt ?

Entente troops had already before March 18 been set in motion for the Aegean, and some were in Lemnos.

Newton was also the first to investigate the difficult subject of the motion of waves (q.v.).

It was more fully developed in his Traite des fluides, published in 1744, in which he gave simple and elegant solutions of problems relating to the equilibrium and motion of fluids.

It remained a desideratum to express by equations the motion of a particle of the fluid in any assigned direction.

The resolution of the questions concerning the motion of fluids was effected by means of Euler's partial differential coefficients.

In the equations of uniplanar motion = dx - du = dx + dy = -v 2 ?, suppose, so that in steady motion dx I +v24 ' x = ?'

If the direction of motion makes an angle 0' with Ox, tan B' = d0 !dam _ ?xy 2 = tan 20, 0 =-10', (9) dy/ y and the velocity is Ua2/r2.

The first vortex dilates and moves slower, while the second contracts and shoots through the first; after which the motion is reversed periodically, as if in a game of leap-frog.

When the motion is such that d?

But here he becomes hopelessly inconsistent, because he had already said, in defining it, that " evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion " (First Principles, § 145).

The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a distinguished air which inspired respect.

The only motion in the air was that of the dripping, microscopic particles of drizzling mist.