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Motion   /mˈoʊʃən/   Listen
Motion

noun
1.
The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals.  Synonym: gesture.
2.
A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something.  Synonym: movement.
3.
A change of position that does not entail a change of location.  Synonyms: motility, move, movement.  "Movement is a sign of life" , "An impatient move of his hand" , "Gastrointestinal motility"
4.
A state of change.  Antonym: motionlessness.
5.
A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote.  Synonym: question.  "She called for the question"
6.
The act of changing location from one place to another.  Synonyms: move, movement.  "The movement of people from the farms to the cities" , "His move put him directly in my path"
7.
An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object.  Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, movement.  "The succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
verb
(past & past part. motioned; pres. part. motioning)
1.
Show, express or direct through movement.  Synonyms: gesticulate, gesture.



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"Motion" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the upper end of the room. But how wondrously their slim, supple fingers touched the bow, or the strings! They played like magicians, and wrought the slow, grave natures before them up to a very riot of ravishing motion. Faster and faster flew the bounding, sliding feet; the dancers being stimulated by the musicians, and the musicians driven to a passion of excitement by those exhilarating cries, and those snappings of the ...
— A Daughter of Fife • Amelia Edith Barr

... and Lee's army was in motion shortly after sunrise, Jackson crossing Beaver Dam Creek and moving due south in the direction of Walnut Grove Church.* (* Jackson's division—so-called in Lee's order—really consisted of three divisions: Whiting's Division: Hood's Brigade, Law's Brigade. ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

... all been at times entertained by the futile efforts of half a dozen highly individualized people gathered together as a committee. Their aimless attempts to find a common method of action have recalled the wavering motion of a baby's arm before he has learned ...
— Democracy and Social Ethics • Jane Addams

... to the septentrionall latitude of seuentie fiue degrees, being nine degrees within the frozen zone, betweene two lands where the sea was straightened not fortie leages broade in some places, and thereby restrained from the violent motion and set of the maine occian and yet founde the same Nauigable and free from yse not onely in the midst of the chanell, but also close aborde the estern shore by me name Desolation, and therefore what neede the repetition of authorities from writers, or wrested ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt

... with a significant motion of his head—which brought an imperceptible smile to the ...
— Facing the Flag • Jules Verne


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