Motion vs. Movement
Difference Between Motion and Movement
Motionnoun
The act or process of changing position or place.
Movementnoun
The act or an instance of moving; a change in place or position.
Motionnoun
A meaningful or expressive change in the position of the body or a part of the body; a gesture.
Movementnoun
A particular manner of moving.
Motionnoun
Active operation
set the plan in motion.Movementnoun
A change in the location of troops, ships, or aircraft for tactical or strategic purposes.
Motionnoun
The ability or power to move
lost motion in his arm.Movementnoun
A series of actions and events taking place over a period of time and working to foster a principle or policy
a movement toward world peace.Motionnoun
The manner in which the body moves, as in walking.
Movementnoun
An organized effort by supporters of a common goal
a leader of the labor movement.Motionnoun
A prompting from within; an impulse or inclination
resigned of her own motion.Movementnoun
A tendency or trend
a movement toward larger kitchens.Motionnoun
(Music) Melodic ascent and descent of pitch.
Movementnoun
A change in the market price of a security or commodity.
Motionnoun
(Law) An application made to a court for an order or a ruling.
Movementnoun
An evacuation of the bowels.
Motionnoun
A formal proposal put to the vote under parliamentary procedures.
Movementnoun
The matter so evacuated.
Motionnoun
A mechanical device or piece of machinery that moves or causes motion; a mechanism.
Movementnoun
The suggestion or illusion of motion in a painting, sculpture, or design.
Motionnoun
The movement or action of such a device.
Movementnoun
The progression of events in the development of a literary plot.
Motionverb
To direct by making a gesture
motioned us to our seats.Movementnoun
The rhythmical or metrical structure of a poetic composition.
Motionverb
To indicate by making a gesture; signal
motioned that he was ready.Movementnoun
(Music) A self-contained section of an extended composition.
Motionverb
To make a motion (that something should happen).
Movementnoun
(Linguistics) In generative grammar, a transformation in which a constituent in one part of a syntactic structure is copied or displaced into a different location, creating a new structure.
Motionverb
To signal by making a gesture
motioned to her to enter.Movementnoun
A mechanism, such as the works of a watch, that produces or transmits motion.
Motionnoun
(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
Movementnoun
Physical motion between points in space.
I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.Motionnoun
(countable) A change of position with respect to time.
Movementnoun
(engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
Motionnoun
(physics) A change from one place to another.
Movementnoun
The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
Motionnoun
(countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
The motion to amend is now open for discussion.Movementnoun
A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.Motionnoun
(obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
Movementnoun
(music) A large division of a larger composition.
Motionnoun
(philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
Movementnoun
(aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.Motionnoun
Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
Movementnoun
(baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
The movement on his cutter was devastating.Motionnoun
(law) 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.
Movementnoun
An act of emptying the bowels.
Motionnoun
(euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
Movementnoun
(obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
Motionnoun
(music) 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.)
Movementnoun
a change of position that does not entail a change of location;
the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprisemovement is a sign of lifean impatient move of his handgastrointestinal motilityMotionnoun
(obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
Movementnoun
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
Motionverb
To gesture indicating a desired movement.
He motioned for me to come closer.Movementnoun
the act of changing location from one place to another;
police controlled the motion of the crowdthe movement of people from the farms to the citieshis move put him directly in my pathMotionverb
(proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
Movementnoun
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals;
he was a charter member of the movementpoliticians have to respect a mass movementhe led the national liberation frontMotionverb
To make a proposal; to offer plans.
Movementnoun
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata;
the second movement is slow and melodicMotionnoun
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
Movementnoun
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end;
he supported populist campaignsthey worked in the cause of world peacethe team was ready for a drive toward the pennantthe movement to end slaverycontributed to the war effortMotionnoun
the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
Movementnoun
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object;
the cinema relies on apparent motionthe succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movementMotionnoun
a change of position that does not entail a change of location;
the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprisemovement is a sign of lifean impatient move of his handgastrointestinal motilityMovementnoun
a euphemism for defecation;
he had a bowel movementMotionnoun
a state of change;
they were in a state of steady motionMovementnoun
a general tendency to change (as of opinion);
not openly liberal but that is the trend of the booka broad movement of the electorate to the rightMotionnoun
a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote;
he made a motion to adjournshe called for the questionMovementnoun
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock);
it was an expensive watch with a diamond movementMotionnoun
the act of changing location from one place to another;
police controlled the motion of the crowdthe movement of people from the farms to the citieshis move put him directly in my pathMovementnoun
the act of changing the location of something;
the movement of cargo onto the vesselMotionnoun
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object;
the cinema relies on apparent motionthe succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movementMotionverb
show, express or direct through movement;
He gestured his desire to leave
