movement

n 1: a change of position that does not entail a change of

location; "the reflex movements of his eyebrows revealed

his surprise"; [syn: {motion}, {move}]

2: the act of changing your location from one place to another;

"police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement

of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him

directly in my path" [syn: {motion}, {move}]

3: a natural event that involves a change in the position or

location of something [syn: {motion}]

4: a group of people with a common ideology who try together to

achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of

the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass

movement"; "he led the national liberation front" [syn: {front}]

5: a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the

second movement is slow and melodic"

6: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward

a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they

worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready

for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end

slavery"; "contributed to the war effort" [syn: {campaign},

{cause}, {crusade}, {drive}, {effort}]

7: an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid

succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the

cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of

flashing lights gave an illusion of movement" [syn: {apparent

motion}, {motion}, {apparent movement}]

8: a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement" [syn:

{bowel movement}, {bm}]

9: the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a

watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond

movement"

10: the act of changing the location of something; "the movement

of cargo onto the vessel"