move
pronunciation
How to pronounce move in British English:
UK [muːv]
How to pronounce move in American English:
US [muːv]
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- Noun:
- the act of deciding to do something
- the act of changing your residence or place of business
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- (game) a player's turn to move a piece or take some other permitted action
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- Verb:
- change location; move, travel, or proceed
- cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
- move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
- change residence, affiliation, or place of employment
- follow a procedure or take a course
- be in a state of action
- go or proceed from one point to another
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- give an incentive for action
- arouse sympathy or compassion in
- dispose of by selling
- progress by being changed
- live one's life in a specified environment
- have a turn; make one's move in a game
- propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting
Word Origin
- move
- move: [13] Move comes via Anglo-Norman mover from Latin movēre ‘move’, which was related to Sanskrit mīv- ‘push, press’. Derivatives of the Latin verb have been a rich source of English vocabulary, including emotion, moment, motion, motor, and mutiny.=> emotion, moment, motion, motor, mutiny
- move (v.)
- late 13c., from Anglo-French mover, Old French movoir "to move, get moving, set out; set in motion; introduce" (Modern French mouvoir), from Latin movere "move, set in motion; remove; disturb" (past participle motus, frequentative motare), from PIE root *meue- "to push away" (cognates: Sanskrit kama-muta "moved by love" and probably mivati "pushes, moves;" Lithuanian mauti "push on;" Greek ameusasthai "to surpass," amyno "push away"). Intransitive sense developed in Old French and came thence to English, though it now is rare in French. Meaning "to affect with emotion" is from c. 1300; that of "to prompt or impel toward some action" is from late 14c. Sense of "to change one's place of residence" is from 1707. Meaning "to propose (something) in an assembly, etc.," is first attested mid-15c. Related: Moved; moving.
- move (n.)
- mid-15c., "proposal," from move (v.). From 1650s in the gaming sense. Meaning "act of moving" is from 1827. Phrase on the move "in the process of going from one place to another" is from 1796; get a move on "hurry up" is Americal English colloquial from 1888 (also, and perhaps originally, get a move on you).
Antonym
Example
- 1. Moreover , the timing for such a move seems propitious .
- 2. And there are consequences -- and risks -- to every move .
- 3. It 's a classic yuri milner move .
- 4. Google needed to move aggressively to protect itself from patent litigation .
- 5. Move it down to the bottom half .