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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>MOVE</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="move"> move, verb, moved, moving, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to change the place or position of. Ex. Do not move your hand. Move your chair to the other side of the table. She moved her lips ... but could not speak (Thomas Hardy). (SYN) shift, remove, transfer. <DD> 2. to put or keep in motion; shake, stir, or disturb. Ex. The wind moves the leaves. <DD> 3. to impel; rouse; excite; prompt. Ex. What moved you to do this? I have prepared such arguments as will not Fail to move them (Byron). <DD> 4. to arouse (a person to laughter, anger, or pity). Ex. The sad story moved her to tears. (SYN) influence. <DD> 5. (in games) to change the position of (a piece). Ex. to move a pawn in chess. <DD> 6. to bring forward formally; propose. Ex. Mr. Chairman, I move that we adjourn. <DD> 7. (Commerce.) to find buyers for; sell. Ex. That store can move these dresses. <DD> 8. to cause to act. Ex. Castor oil moves the bowels. <DD> 9. (Archaic.) to suggest; urge. Ex. My mother refused to move it [a proposition] to my father (Daniel Defoe). <DD> 10. (Obsolete.) <DD> a. to exhort or urge to do something. Ex. I ... begged him ... that he would move the Captains to take some pity on me (Jonathan Swift). <DD> b. to apply to for something. Ex. The Florentine will move us For speedy aid (Shakespeare). <DD>v.i. 1. to change place or position; pass from one place or position to another. Ex. The child moved in his sleep. The earth moves around the sun. <DD> 2. to change one's place of living. Ex. We have moved from 96th Street to 110th Street. <DD> 3. to be in motion; be stirred. Ex. Then move the trees, the copses nod (Tennyson). <DD> 4. to make progress; go; advance; proceed. Ex. The train moved out slowly. Then the tale Shall move on soberly (Keats). <DD> 5. to act. Ex. God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform (William Cowper). Had the city moved sooner ... there would have been no rising, no riot (Cardinal Newman). <DD> 6a. to make a move in a game. Ex. Move quickly, don't delay the game. <DD> b. to be moved in a game. <DD> 7. to make a formal request, application, or proposal. Ex. to move for a new trial. <DD> 8. (Commerce.) to change hands or be sold. Ex. These pink dresses are moving slowly. <DD> 9. to be active; exist. Ex. to move in the best society, to move in artistic circles. <DD> 10. to turn; swing; operate. Ex. Most doors move on hinges. (SYN) work, revolve. <DD> 11. to carry oneself. Ex. to move with dignity and grace. <DD> 12. (Informal.) to start off; depart. Ex. It's time to be moving. When the ambulance had left, the crowd moved on. <DD> 13. (of the bowels) to be moved; act. <DD>noun 1. the act of moving; movement. Ex. an impatient move of her head. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) an action taken to bring about some result; step. Ex. His next move was to earn some money. Our move to get a better place to play succeeded. <DD> 3a. a player's turn to move in a game. Ex. It is your move. <DD> b. the moving of a piece in chess and other games. Ex. a good move. <DD> 4. a change of a place to live. expr. get a move on, (Slang.) <DD> a. to make haste; hurry up. Ex. A correspondent from Rhodesia says, "Get cracking, or I will come over." We would say "get a move on!" (Holiday). <DD> b. to begin to move. Ex. I remember with what excitement the Fleet received the signal: "Winston is back." Now we shall ... get a move on (Lord Mountbatten). expr. move in, to move oneself, one's family, and one's belongings into a new place to live. Ex. The new couple is moving in next week. expr. move in on, (Informal.) <DD> a. to attack. Ex. The soldiers moved in on the well-defended old house from all sides. <DD> b. to take steps to dispossess (a person) of power or of control or ownership, as of a business or a property. Ex. The bankers began talking of the "saturation point" in the auto market and moved in on him (Time). expr. move up, to promote or be promoted. Ex. Dr. Cabot was moved up from an associate to a full professorship. expr. on the move, <DD> a. moving about. Ex. The action ... is nervy, always on the move (Maclean's). <DD> b. active. Ex. The extremists in the Chinese leadership are on the move again (Victor Zorza). <DD> c. traveling. Ex. He's been on the move from job to job for many years. ... a wandering people ... continually on the move (Washington Irving). </DL> <A NAME="moveability"> moveability, noun. =movability.</DL> <A NAME="moveable"> moveable, adjective, noun. =movable.noun moveableness. </DL> <A NAME="moveables"> moveables, noun pl. =movables.</DL> <A NAME="moveably"> moveably, adverb. =movably.</DL> <A NAME="moveless"> moveless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without movement or motion; motionless; immovable. Ex. His limbs were moveless in an exasperating and obstinate calm (Arnold Bennett). adv. movelessly. noun movelessness. </DL> <A NAME="movement"> movement, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or fact of moving. Ex. We run by movements of the legs. Sometimes he binds his limbs with rope so that reflex movements will not jar his hand (Newsweek). (SYN) move, action, stir. <DD> 2. a change in the placing of troops or ships, especially as part of a tactical maneuver. <DD> 3. the moving parts of a machine or mechanism; special group of parts that move on each other. The movement of a watch consists of many little wheels. <DD> 4. (Music.) <DD> a. the kind of rhythm and speed a piece has. Ex. The movement of a waltz is very different from the movement of a march. <DD> b. one division of a sonata, symphony, concerto, or other long selection. One movement is distinguished from the others by tempo and by melodic and rhythmical structure. <DD> 5. (Figurative.) rhythmical or accentual structure or character in poetry. <DD> 6. (Figurative.) the suggestion of action in a painting or sculpture. <DD> 7. abundance of incidents; action. <DD> 8. the efforts and results of a group of people working together to bring about some one thing. Ex. the movement for a safe and sane Fourth of July. <DD> 9. a notable change in the price of something. <DD> 10. activity in the market for some commodity, stock, or other security. Ex. The movement in coffee is insignificant. <DD> 11a. an emptying of the bowels. <DD> b. the waste matter emptied from the bowels. </DL> <A NAME="mover"> mover, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person or thing that moves. Ex. We [poets] are the movers and shakers of the World (A. W. E. O'Shaughnessy). <DD> 2. a person or company whose occupation is moving furniture, office equipment, and the possessions in houses, stores, and offices, from one place to another. </DL> <A NAME="moverandshaker"> mover and shaker,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a person of power and influence. Ex. Columbia, like its peers, is unashamedly trying to admit the movers and shakers of tomorrow (Newsweek). </DL> <A NAME="movie"> movie, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD>noun 1. =motion picture. (SYN) cinema. <DD> 2. a motion-picture theater. Ex. a neighborhood movie. (SYN) cinema. <DD>adj. of or having to do with motion pictures. Ex. a movie actress, a movie theater. expr. movies, the motion-picture industry. Ex. Movies are turning more toward producing for television. expr. the movies, a showing of motion pictures. Ex. We go once a week to the movies. </DL> <A NAME="moviedom"> moviedom, noun. =filmdom.</DL> <A NAME="moviegoer"> moviegoer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> cinemagoer; filmgoer. Ex. ... millions of moviegoers in the nation's theaters (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="moviegoing"> moviegoing, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun the act or practice of a moviegoer; a going to the movies. Ex. The experience of moviegoing ... gave us all a fantasy life in common (Harper's). <DD>adj. that goes to the movies. Ex. the moviegoing public. </DL> <A NAME="moviehouse"> movie house,<DL COMPACT><DD> a motion-picture theater. </DL> <A NAME="moviemaker"> moviemaker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a professional producer of motion pictures. Ex. Moviemakers from thirty-five nations plan to show their wares at the Cannes Film Festival (New York Times). <DD> 2. an individual who takes his own motion pictures. Ex. ... a brand-new camera, designed as the last word for amateur moviemakers (Time). </DL> <A NAME="moviemaking"> moviemaking, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the production of a motion picture. <DD> 2. acting in or otherwise taking part in the production of a motion picture. Ex. Power gave up fulltime moviemaking in 1952 (Time). <DD>adj. of, having to do with, or characteristic of moviemaking. </DL> <A NAME="movieola"> movieola, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a motion-picture projector used in film editing. It has a small viewing screen and allows control of the speed and direction of film movement. </DL> <A NAME="moving"> moving, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. that moves. Ex. a moving car. <DD> 2. causing or producing motion; having motion. Ex. The more the moving force is distant from the center of motion, so much the more force it shall have (John Leak). <DD> 3. causing action; actuating. Ex. He was the moving spirit in planning for the party. <DD> 4. touching; pathetic. Ex. a moving story. A decayed widow ... has laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter (Hawthorne). (SYN) affecting. <DD>verb present participle of move. adv. movingly. noun movingness. </DL> <A HREF="movingcl.dic">NEXT</A>