movement
pronunciation
How to pronounce movement in British English:
UK [ˈmuːvmənt]
How to pronounce movement in American English:
US [ˈmuːvmənt]
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- Noun:
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- 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
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- a euphemism for defecation
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
- the act of changing the location of something
Word Origin
- movement (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French movement "movement, exercise; start, instigation" (Modern French mouvement), from Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (see move (v.)). In the musical sense of "major division of a piece" it is attested from 1776; in the political/social sense, from 1828. Related: Movements.
Example
- 1. Is the occupy movement the coming out party for kickstarter ?
- 2. You want to be seen against an uncluttered background with no distracting objects , movement , or sound . "
- 3. He helped inspire the mega-church movement .
- 4. But he makes no movement towards the food .
- 5. Movement produces kinetic energy , which can be converted into power .