1. the act or an instance of moving; a change in place or position.
2. A particular manner of moving.
3. A change in the location of troops, ships, or aircraft for tactical or strategic purposes.
4. 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.
5. an organized effort by supporters of a common goal: a leader of the labor movement.
6. A tendency or trend: a movement toward larger kitchens.
7. A change in the market price of a security or commodity.
8. an evacuation of the bowels.
9. the matter so evacuated.
10. the suggestion or illusion of motion in a painting, sculpture, or design.
11. the progression of events in the development of a literary plot.
12. the rhythmical or metrical structure of a poetic composition.
13. music A self-contained section of an extended composition.
14. A mechanism, such as the works of a watch, that produces or transmits motion.

1. physical motion between points in space.
2. for a clockwork, a clock, or a watch, a device that cuts time in equal portions.
3. the impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
4. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
5. A large division of a larger composition.
6. an instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
7. the deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
8. an act of emptying the bowels.

1. the act of moving in space; change of place or posture; motion.
2. manner or style of moving.
3. transference, by any means, from one situation to another; a change of situation; progress toward a goal; advancement.
4. motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
5.
6. the rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece.
7. one of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work.
8. A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch.
9. A more or less organized effort by many people to achieve some goal, especially a social or artistic goal.

1. the act or condition of moving, in any sense of that word.
2. A particular act or motion; figuratively, a quality or effect as of motion.
3. action; incident.
4. A course or series of actions or incidents moving more or less continuously in the direction of some specific end: as, the antislavery movement; a reactionary movement.
5. the extent or value of commercial transactions for some specified time or place: as, the movement in coffee is insignificant.
6. A particular form or arrangement of moving parts in mechanism: as, the movement of a watch (that is, all that part of a watch that is not the case); the movement of an organ or a pianoforte.
7. Milit., a change of position of a body of troops in tactical or strategical evolutions.
8. in music:
9. motion; melodic progression. see motion, 14.
10. rhythm; meter; accentual character: as, a march movement.
11. tempo; pace; relative speed of performance: as, with a quick movement.
12. A principal division or section of an extended work, like a sonata or a symphony, having its own key, tempo, themes, and development, more or less distinct from the others.
13. see the adjectives.

1. a euphemism for defecation
2. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
3. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
4. the act of changing the location of something
5. a change of position that does not entail a change of location
6. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
7. a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
8. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
9. the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
10. the act of changing location from one place to another
11. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object