Word Finder - movement

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Physical motion between points in space.

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I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.

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• motion

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A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.

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The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.

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A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

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The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.

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A large division of a larger composition.

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Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.

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An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.

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Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.

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The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.

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The movement on his cutter was devastating.

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A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.

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An act of emptying the bowels.

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Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

She started to put the pillow down and caught the movement in the mirror from the corner of her eye.

A movement from the balcony caught her attention.

Mesmerized by its movement, she watched as it disappeared into the clouds.

Brady's movement paused then resumed.

A movement behind caught her attention and she stopped.

Dean felt a movement behind him and looked up to see a young man in his early twenties looking down at him.

Movement outside the window caught Carmen's attention.

The sound of men and movement around her pulled her from the daze.

Several times she thought movement around the camp had wakened her.

His every word and movement was described with ecstasy.

Talon grabbed him, his movement blurred.

He dismounted in one graceful movement and started unsaddling Diablo.

Howie's body began a strange movement we knew to be his effort to move more rapidly.

She mirrored the movement, feeding meat to Jack as she ate.

Katie's gaze flickered from the snake-like movement of lively jungle trees to Gabe's back.

He heard movement outside the closet and eased the door open far enough to peek into the well-lit room.

But that movement was, by its nature, backward looking.

The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people.

Her eyes caught movement at the edge of the crowd.

Sasha snatched her neck with one hand, his movement too fast for her to defend herself against.

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

Anna Mikhaylovna with just the same movement raised her shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away from the doctor to Pierre.

Couldn't you be tried by the women's movement for treason?

To understand the laws of this continuous movement is the aim of history.

Whenever I look at my watch and its hands point to ten, I hear the bells of the neighboring church; but because the bells begin to ring when the hands of the clock reach ten, I have no right to assume that the movement of the bells is caused by the position of the hands of the watch.

Only when the army had got there, as the result of innumerable and varying forces, did people begin to assure themselves that they had desired this movement and long ago foreseen its result.

Everything changes and moves and that movement is God.

In 1812 it reaches its extreme limit, Moscow, and then, with remarkable symmetry, a countermovement occurs from east to west, attracting to it, as the first movement had done, the nations of middle Europe.

Yancey noticed the movement and followed her gaze to the man.

For a moment she lay still, afraid any movement would frighten him away like a wild cat in the daylight.

She didn't remember his passion, the way he tasted and smelled and felt, or the movement of his muscles beneath taut, smooth skin.

Kris smiled, and Andre echoed the movement, the skin around his eyes crinkling in warmth.

A while later, the sound of movement outside the bedroom door pulled her from her sleep.

But why intellectual activity is considered by the historians of culture to be the cause or expression of the whole historical movement is hard to understand.

So absorbed was she with inner thoughts that the movement didn't immediately catch her attention.

The movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play of expression on his face.

Prince Andrew followed Speranski's every word and movement with particular attention.

In seeking the laws of historical movement just the same thing happens.

The only conception that can explain the movement of the peoples is that of some force commensurate with the whole movement of the peoples.

There was more movement in the back of the room as Fred O'Connor entered, followed by a contingent of his followers.

Deidre sought to figure out what it was about the currents and subtle movement that kept her in place when she wanted to return to the castle, where it was warm.

The counter movement reaches the starting point of the first movement in the west--Paris--and subsides.

She echoed the movement.

What was needed for him who, overshadowing others, stood at the head of that movement from east to west?

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 was not a pretty boy but a man with rugged, bad-boy beauty and a slow sensuality about his movement that made her heart skip a beat despite her pain.

The ocean breeze cooled his back, and his heartbeat was synced to the movement of the tide.

Her movement upset his balance again, and he shifted twice before finally allowing his knees to drop beside hers.

The man stopped, thinking he'd heard some movement behind him, but after listening a few minutes could discern no human sound and was satisfied he was alone.

Taran tensed, the movement enough to snap one of the rusted fetters.