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Move   /muv/   Listen
Move

verb
(past & past part. moved; pres. part. moving)
1.
Change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.  Synonyms: go, locomote, travel.  "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus" , "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect" , "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" , "News travelled fast"
2.
Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.  Synonym: displace.  "I'm moving my money to another bank" , "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
3.
Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.
4.
Change residence, affiliation, or place of employment.  "The basketball player moved from one team to another"
5.
Follow a procedure or take a course.  Synonyms: go, proceed.  "She went through a lot of trouble" , "Go about the world in a certain manner" , "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"
6.
Be in a state of action.  Synonym: be active.
7.
Go or proceed from one point to another.
8.
Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).  Synonym: act.  "We must move quickly" , "The governor should act on the new energy bill" , "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"
9.
Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.  Synonyms: affect, impress, strike.  "This behavior struck me as odd"
10.
Give an incentive for action.  Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, prompt, propel.
11.
Arouse sympathy or compassion in.
12.
Dispose of by selling.
13.
Progress by being changed.  Synonyms: go, run.  "Run through your presentation before the meeting"
14.
Live one's life in a specified environment.
15.
Have a turn; make one's move in a game.  Synonym: go.
16.
Propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting.  Synonym: make a motion.
noun
1.
The act of deciding to do something.  "His first move was to hire a lawyer"
2.
The act of changing your residence or place of business.  Synonym: relocation.
3.
A change of position that does not entail a change of location.  Synonyms: motility, motion, movement.  "Movement is a sign of life" , "An impatient move of his hand" , "Gastrointestinal motility"
4.
The act of changing location from one place to another.  Synonyms: motion, movement.  "The movement of people from the farms to the cities" , "His move put him directly in my path"
5.
(game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game.



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"Move" Quotes from Famous Books



... therefore, it was a pleasant thing to see how easy came the captain's work to him—he had nothing to do but to lash, lash, lash, double-thonged, like a slave-driver: and, except that he made the caitiff move along, to be a spectacle to man and woman, up and down the town, he might as well, for any difficulty in the deed, have been employed in scarifying ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... another mode of their versatile expression. With rare exceptions, they were not authors consciously or by intention. They wrote spontaneously, and often with reckless disregard of grammar and orthography. But the people who move across their gossiping pages are alive. The century passes in review before us as we read. The men and women who made its literature so brilliant and its salons so famous, become vivid realities. Prominent ...
— The Women of the French Salons • Amelia Gere Mason
... gun between them; and when Wegstetten called out in his clear, strident voice, "Battery, mount!" Vogt whispered gaily across to Klitzing, "Now we're off!" as the long procession of thirty-six guns and six ammunition-waggons began slowly to move. ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... previously suggested by C. E. Hawley. To the connecting rod was attached a rather ordinary ringed piston, over which was fitted a free, ringless piston, machined to fit closely the cylinder bore. This floating piston could move freely a distance equal to the compression space. The intention was that on the intake stroke, suction would open the intake valve, which had no positive opening arrangement, and draw in the mixture which then was compressed as in a regular Otto engine. Fired by the hot-tube ignition ...
— The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology • Don H. Berkebile
... did this, he saw some object move across the ice of the lake. One object was followed by another, and then a third ...
— Guns And Snowshoes • Captain Ralph Bonehill


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