motion

motion
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Movement
Nouns
1. motion, movement, move, mobility, movableness; approach; mobilization; restlessness, unrest; kinematics, kinetics; sprite.
2. (motion forward) progress, locomotion; journey, voyage, transit, travel; speed, velocity, rate, clip. See progression.
3. (fluid motion) stream, flow, flux, run, course, flight, drift, direction. See fluidity.
4. (motion on foot) step, pace, tread, stride, gait, footfall, carriage.
Verbs
1. be in motion, move, go; hie; budge, stir; pass, flit, hover round; shift, slide, glide; roll on, flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander, walk, get around; dodge; keep moving, pull up stakes. Slang, doss, haul ass, tool along, truck.
2. put or set in motion, move, impel, propel, mobilize, motivate.
3. motion, signal, gesture, direct, guide (see indication).
4. walk, step, pace, tread, stride. Slang, galumph.
Adjectives — moving, in motion, astir, transitional, motory, motive, shifting, movable, mobile; mercurial, restless, changeable, nomadic, erratic; kinetic. Slang, cooking [with gas].
Adverbs — under way, on the move, on the wing, on the march.
Quotations — Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the Shadow (T. S. Eliot), To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction (Isaac Newton), America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion (Alexis de Tocqueville).
Antonyms, see inactivity, stability.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [A movement]
Syn. change, act, action; see movement 2 .
2. [The state of moving]
Syn. passage, transLating, changing; see movement 1 .
3. [An act formally proposed]
Syn. proposal, suggestion, consideration, proposition; see plan 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
I
n.
1. action movement, change, moving, transition, drift, shift.
2. aproposal recommendation, suggestion, proposition, submission, offering.
II
v.
gesture, gesticulate, point, nod, beckon, shrug, pantomime.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun 1. The act or process of moving: move, movement, stir1. See MOVE. 2. An expressive, meaningful bodily movement: gesticulation, gesture, indication, sign, signal. Informal: high sign. See EXPRESS. II verb To make bodily motions so as to convey an idea or complement speech: gesticulate, gesture, sign, signal, signalize. Idiom: give the high sign. See EXPRESS.

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