Word Finder - move

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The act of moving; a movement.

example

A slight move of the tiller, and the boat will go off course.

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An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

example

He made another move towards becoming a naturalized citizen.

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A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.

example

She always gets spontaneous applause for that one move.

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The event of changing one's residence.

example

The move into my fiancé's house took two long days.

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A change in strategy.

example

I am worried about our boss's move.

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A transfer, a change from one employer to another.

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The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.

example

If you roll a six, you can make two moves.

synonyms

• play

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To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

example

A ship moves rapidly.

synonyms

• stir

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To act; to take action; to begin to act

example

Come on guys, let's move: there's work to do!

synonyms

• get moving
• stir

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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.

example

I decided to move to the country for a more peaceful life.

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(and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.

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My opponent's counter was moving much quicker round the board than mine.

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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

example

The horse moves a carriage.

synonyms

• impel
• stir

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To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game

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She moved the queen closer to the centre of the board.

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To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

example

This song moves me to dance.

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To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).

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That book really moved me.

synonyms

• affect
• trouble

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To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit

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I move to repeal the rule regarding obligatory school uniform.

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To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).

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To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.

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To apply to, as for aid.

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To request an action from the court.

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An attorney moved the court to issue a restraining order.

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To bow or salute upon meeting.

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To sell, to market (especially, but not exclusively, illegal products)

I just want to move on.

You can move in with me.

And yet, Howard made no move to call for help.

Did he want to move out of the apartment?

Once in the authorities were notified, we must move on and not look back.

She had to move a few things to make room, but that wasn't too hard.

I'm going to move some of them over there.

Of course, once she had convinced everyone else what a foolish move it would be, how was she going to convince herself that she didn't need Brandon in her life?

Sometimes we have to accept change, if we want to move forward.

Not merely in these cases but continually did that old man--who by experience of life had reached the conviction that thoughts and the words serving as their expression are not what move people--use quite meaningless words that happened to enter his head.

She opened her eyes, afraid to move or even take a breath.

There's nothing sensitive about Claudette, but if you want to move into that room upstairs with the balcony, go ahead.

You keep saying you don't care about your past anymore; you want to move ahead.

It would be dangerous to move now.

The only winning move is not to play.

Alex patiently consoled and distracted her while the nurse taped a padded board to her hand and wrist so she couldn't move it.

Our unknown contributions to the web site continued to methodically move forward.

I tried to move and I could.

When I made a move to end the conversation, Brennan indicated there was more.

Wherever the ship may go, the rush of water which neither directs nor increases its movement foams ahead of it, and at a distance seems to us not merely to move of itself but to govern the ship's movement also.

He reiterated he'd made no move to learn of our location or names.

My mind stirred with the stirring times, and the characters round which the life of two contending nations centred seemed to move right before me.

Natasha asked quickly in a whisper, afraid to move lest she should rouse the dozing baby.

Still, neither of them could afford to move out right now, so their relationship would have to remain a secret.

Unsure whether to move away from him or verbally fend him off, she did neither.

Bordeaux was a persuasive man with a tendency to move fast - apparently not only with women.

Perhaps I'll move further east and see if the plucking is better when the weather is cooler.

Can you move any faster?

These preparations had not consumed a great deal of time, but the sleeping Gargoyles were beginning to wake up and move around, and soon some of them would be hunting for their missing wings.

He has given you the air in which to move and have homes.

In the past, success relied heavily on whether an entrepreneur could move an offline experience online better than someone else.

Our ability to process data, move information, and make things small will progress to a point where they will not be gating factors ever again.

As we move toward that future, it is a great tragedy that the experiences of all the people of the past are lost to us.

The business looks at this new country and decides to move there because, from their standpoint, they can save costs and be more efficient.

Anger seized me, my fingers refused to move, I sat rigid for one long moment, the blood throbbing in my temples, and all the hatred that a child can feel concentrated in my heart.

But at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break and tear whatever came to his hand.

Probably planning his next move.

She was afraid to move.

He made no move to leave.

In more serene surroundings perhaps we could come to some understanding and move forward in a mutually peaceful way.

Just as it is impossible to say when it was decided to abandon Moscow, so it is impossible to say precisely when, or by whom, it was decided to move to Tarutino.

There are five colleges, a good hospital and all that but I agree with Quinn; I want to move forward.

At least he could move around, in his dream state, while we were obligated to remain silent and unmoving.

I'm content to just move forward.

It was a calculated, deliberate move to wipe out the wealthy.

When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white; and by the time the villagers had broken their fast the morning sun had dried my house sufficiently to allow me to move in again, and my meditations were almost uninterupted.

Denisov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with his glittering black eyes at Rostov.

Each time Prince Nesvitski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile.

While he was speaking, the curtain of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the hill opposite, with the French moving about on it, opened out before them.

He tried to get away from them, but they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair's breadth.