Meaning of motion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A state of progression from one place to another.
   uncountable
2. A surname
3. A surname.
4. displacement
5. A change of position with respect to time.
   countable
6. offset, shift
7. A change from one place to another.
   countable, uncountable
8. A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
   countable
9. scrolling
10. An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
11. from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
    countable, uncountable
12. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
    countable, uncountable
13. A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
    countable, uncountable
14. A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
    countable, euphemistic, uncountable
15. Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
    countable, uncountable
16. A puppet, or puppet show.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
17. A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
    countable, uncountable
18. Success; achievements, especially those that others cannot match.
    slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Several parties of hop-pickers joined the train at the intermediate stations, and the guard performed the acrobatic feat of walking along the footboards of the coaches to examine tickets, while the train was in motion.”

“This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion.”

“Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.”

“The motion to amend is now open for discussion.”

“Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.”

“when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had bin else a meer artificiall Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.”

“I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical life to the more considerable effects of general Motion in Minerals, Metalls, and sundry Meteors, whose easie and rude shapes may have no need of any Principle of Life, or Spermatical form distinct from the Rest or Motion of the particles of the Matter.”

“Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.”

“From that time to the present (three weeks) she has taken one pill every night, and had one comfortable motion every morning without the aid of any other aperient, and her health has much improved.”

“The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.”

“What motion's this? the model of Nineveh?”

“[...] three 2-4-2 tank engines were secured from the Hunslet Engine Co. of Leeds. As the line began on the Quay in Bideford, the locomotives had their motion encased, as shown in the illustrations on page 414.”

“You've never got no motion, lad / You've never got no action”

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