movement
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- noun
Synonyms for movement
advance
Synonyms
transfer
development
progression
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Synonyms for movement
a change in normal place or position
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Synonyms for movement
a change of position that does not entail a change of location
Related Words
- change
- abduction
- adduction
- agitation
- body English
- circumduction
- disturbance
- fetal movement
- foetal movement
- flit
- dart
- gesture
- headshake
- headshaking
- inclining
- inclination
- everting
- eversion
- inversion
- upending
- jerking
- jolt
- saccade
- jerk
- kicking
- kick
- kneel
- kneeling
- pitching
- lurch
- pitch
- eye movement
- opening
- prostration
- reaching
- stretch
- reach
- reciprocation
- reclining
- retraction
- retroflection
- retroflexion
- rotary motion
- rotation
- closing
- shutting
- sitting
- posing
- snap
- squatting
- squat
- sweep
- toss
- vibration
- quivering
- quiver
- wave
- flutter
- waver
- flicker
- standing
- straddle
- span
- stroke
- squirm
- wiggle
- wriggle
- eurhythmics
- eurhythmy
- eurythmics
- eurythmy
the act of changing location from one place to another
Related Words
- change
- coming
- approach
- approaching
- forward motion
- onward motion
- advancement
- progress
- progression
- procession
- advance
- locomotion
- travel
- lunge
- lurch
- traveling
- travelling
- chase
- pursual
- pursuit
- following
- ascending
- rise
- ascent
- ascension
- descent
- swinging
- vacillation
- swing
- return
- glide
- coast
- slide
- slippage
- flow
- stream
- crawl
- hurrying
- speeding
- speed
- displacement
- translation
- shifting
- shift
- rush
- rushing
- haste
- hurry
- maneuver
- manoeuvre
- play
- migration
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
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- happening
- natural event
- occurrence
- occurrent
- crustal movement
- tectonic movement
- approaching
- approach
- passing
- passage
- deflexion
- deflection
- bending
- bend
- change of location
- travel
- undulation
- wave
- jitter
- periodic motion
- periodic movement
- heave
- backlash
- rebound
- recoil
- repercussion
- kick
- seek
- wring
- squeeze
- cam stroke
- stroke
- throw
- turning
- turn
- wrench
- twist
- moving ridge
- wobble
- whirl
- commotion
- Brownian motion
- Brownian movement
- pedesis
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
Related Words
- venture
- ad blitz
- ad campaign
- advertising campaign
- anti-war movement
- charm campaign
- consumerism
- campaigning
- candidacy
- candidature
- electioneering
- political campaign
- fund-raising campaign
- fund-raising drive
- fund-raising effort
- feminist movement
- women's lib
- women's liberation movement
- feminism
- gay lib
- gay liberation movement
- lost cause
- reform
- war
- youth crusade
- youth movement
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
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a euphemism for defecation
Synonyms
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a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
Related Words
the act of changing the location of something
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