movementn.

Brit.

/ˈmuːvm(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈmuvm(ə)nt/

Forms: Middle English meuement, Middle English moevement, Middle English mouement, Middle English mouvement, Middle English– movement, 1600s moodment (transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 mouiment, pre-1700 mouvement, pre-1700 1700s– movement.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French movement.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman movement, moevement and Middle French movement, French mouvement (see below) < mouvoir move v. + -ment -ment suffix. Compare post-classical Latin movementum motion (15th cent. in a British source; also earlier movimentum emotion (c900), rebellion, uprising (a1329)). Compare also Old Occitan movemen (mid 13th cent.), Spanish movimiento (c1250), Catalan moviment (13th cent.), Italian movimento (13th cent.), Portuguese movimento (15th cent.).Rare in the 16th and early 17th centuries; not found, e.g., in Shakespeare, Milton, or the Bible of 1611. Uses in French include: action or manner of moving oneself or of moving a part of the body (early 13th cent.; late 14th cent. in les mouvemens du ciel , lit. ‘the movements of heaven’; compare sense 1a); impulse which causes a person to act in a particular manner (late 13th cent.; early 15th cent. in phrase de son propre mouvement ; compare sense 2); movement of a military force (1676; compare sense 1d); moving parts of the mechanism of a clock or watch (1659; compare sense 3a); speed at which a musical piece is played (1690; compare sense 4a); transition from one note to another in a piece of music (1691; compare sense 4a); social change (1784; compare sense 7a; 1881 in phrase (être) dans le mouvement ; compare sense 7b); collective action intended to bring about social or political change (1790; compare sense 8a).

I. A change of place or position; a progress, change, development, etc.

1. A change of physical location.

a. The action or process of moving; change of position or posture; passage from place to place, or from one situation to another. Also: an instance or kind of this; a particular act or manner of moving.

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the world > movement > [noun]

stirringc888

pacec1300

wawingc1305

bestirring1340

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movementa1393

startlinga1398

flittinga1400

motionc1425

shiftingc1440

agitation1573

motiveness1611

go1635

moment1641

remover1653

move1818

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 674 (MED) Astronomie..makth a man have knowlechinge Of Sterres in the firmament, Figure, cercle and moevement..Hou so thei moeve or stonde faste.

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. ii. 108 Thou nilt nat thanne denye..that the moevement of goynge [L. Ambulandi..motum] nys in men by kynde?

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 70 The hevin..movis fra the orient to the occident..Bot the thingis yat ar corporale jn this erde..movis nocht with the moving of jt,..bot ȝit haue thai othir naturale movementis.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 36 The childir of seth..var the fyrst inuentours of the art of astronomie and inuestigatours of the celest coursis & mouimentis.

a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) Pref. p. xviii Seeking in the movements of the heavenly bodies for a clue to the accidents of life.

1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 419 All the Movement of the Soul here is only to will the Movement of the Body towards these things.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 62 In human works, tho' labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain.

1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 241 Yet it is the small secreted spring that directs, draws, checks, and gives movement to every weight and wheel.

1802 T. Jefferson Let. 2 Nov. in Writings (1984) 1108 A roof..needing no underworks to support it, will permit the bason to be entirely open and free for the movement of the vessels.

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xi. 324 The schoolmistress stepped back with a sudden movement.

1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) vii. 162 There was a general movement toward the door.

1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 32 Teeth whose movements when he ate seemed entirely unrelated with the movements of his jaw.

1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 151 There were no Japs to be seen, no movement at all.

b. Dance. A change of position or posture; a step or figure.

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society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > movement

movement1715

dance move1960

1715 R. Steele Lover 24 Mr. Siris has made the beginning of this Movement very difficult for anyone who has not, from his natural Parts, a more than ordinary Qualification that way.

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xvii. 237 One of the most pleasing movements in country-dancing..is what they call ‘the hay’.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 305/1 Tambourin,..name of a dance performed on the French stage. The air is lively, and the movements are quick.

1903 W. Lamb How & what to Dance vii. 70 The Redowa, when first introduced, began with a promenade movement, but it is now generally commenced with the circular figure.

1949 Ballet Ann. iii. 40 Movement after movement was ruined by the broken line.

1993 Dance Connection Summer 36/1 She does not use the precise rhythms and movements of the Kathak dance traditionally.

†c. Chess. = move n. 2a. Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > [noun] > move

draughtc1369

move1656

movement1734

1734 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester (ed. 5) i. 128 The Queen..may pass from one end of the Board to the other at one Movement.

1734 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester (ed. 5) i. 131 After some Movements, you will find it impossible to proceed without exposing your Men or Officers.

1815 W. Scott Antiquary II. viii. 102 Francie was..foiled in his assaults upon the fidelity of the mendicant, and, like an indifferent chess-player, became, at every unsuccessful movement, more liable to the counter-checks of his opponent.

d. A change of position of a military force, esp. for tactical or strategic reasons; a manoeuvre. Cf. evolution n. 2.

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society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun]

manoeuvre1759

movement1762

manoeuvring1786

1762 G. Cockings War iii. 18 (note) M. de Bougainville, whom the feign'd movements of the English troops, had drawn up the river, turn'd back on discovering their real design.

1784 W. Carter (title) Genuine Detail of the several Engagements, Positions and Movements of the Royal and American Armies during the years 1775 and 1776.

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) Hurry and delay, in military movements, are two extremes which should be equally avoided.

1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 401 But the march of Mortier with some 15,000 men from Aragon to their assistance had been ascertained, and it was certain therefore that a movement might be apprehended from that quarter.

1859 Field Exercise Infantry (rev. ed.) iii. 95 The double march is not applied to the movements of large bodies of troops for a longer distance than is required in a charge, or a short rush.

1955 A. Galland First & Last xii. 91 The fighter supporting land operations of the army is exclusively a tactical arm..for attacking at low level enemy positions and troop movements in the front line.

1996 Soldier of Fortune Mar. 34/1 Mines..were planted carefully to channel enemy troop movements into kill zones.

e. A journey, outing, commission, or other significant activity undertaken by a person or group of people. Usually in plural.Frequently used in the context of crime, espionage, surveillance, etc.

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the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > [noun] > proceedings or doings

workingOE

workOE

doingsa1387

practica1475

gearc1475

proceeding1524

practice1547

activity1570

courses1592

acting1596

motion1667

ongoings1673

energies1747

deed1788

movement1803

1803 T. Jefferson Let. 20 June in Writings (1984) 1126 Your movements while within the limits of the U.S. will be better directed by occasional communications.

1833 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) III. 388 He was one of the five who called the night before, and arranged for us then part of the movements of this day.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 406 The close attention which was paid in England to every step and movement of the new emperor.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xvi. 201 She hated questioning Liddy about her husband's movements.

1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xx. 192 The sharpest eyes in the world are watching his every movement.

1958 R. Narayan Guide v. 78 I had dismissed the car at the cinema. I did not want Gaffur to watch my movements.

1992 Time 28 Sept. 20/3 Plainclothes antiterrorist police had been tracking the movements of a lithe young couple for weeks.

f. The transportation or conveyance of livestock, goods, people, etc.; an instance of this.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > movement of cattle

movement1847

transhumance1911

1847 Commerc. Rev. South & West June 563 It is impossible to foresee what may be the movement of freight as well as passengers in the course of a very few years.

1869 Act 32 & 33 Victoria c. 70 §48 The effectual isolation of infected places in respect of the movement of animals and things.

1878 Act 41 & 42 Vict. c. 74 §32 Prohibiting or regulating the movement of animals and persons into, in, or out of an infected place or area.

1903 Missionary Rec. United Free Church Scotl. Sept. 394/1 There have been considerable movements of population from the Continent to Canada.

1944 Times 8 Apr. 2/4 The movement of opencast coal has been increased by 80,000 tons a week.

1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 June 37/4 The United States and Great Britain mounted an intelligence effort..to monitor the movement of Nazi gold to Switzerland.

g. The power or facility of voluntary movement of a part of the body.

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1878 M. Foster Physiol. iii. vi. §4/511 Anaesthesia (a loss of sensation) and akinesia (a loss of movement).

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xviii. 478 Where sensation in a limb is lost, movement is uncontrolled and inco-ordinated.

1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 278 442/1 By the seventy-second hospital day the right-eye movement was slightly improved, and he was able to feed himself.

1998 Today's Golfer Sept. 62/2 You lose your movement in the wrists which means they will not hinge.

h. A departure or arrival of an aircraft. Now sometimes also used of trains, buses, ships, etc. Usually in plural.

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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > departure or arrival of aircraft

movement1958

1958 ‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose i. 7 I glanced at the movements board. There was a Dakota freighter scheduled to leave..at one o'clock in the morning.

1969 Sunday Times 17 Aug. (Colour Suppl.) 19/1 Many of the major airports are suffering from aerial traffic jams, and the 747 will mean only one movement where there might have been two or more.

1976 Railway Mag. Aug. 404/2 The operation of a line..which..can daily run..some 500 movements both in to and out of Victoria.

1991 Pilot Nov. 60/1 Nottingham airport had a record number of movements in one day, 142 take-offs and landings.

†2. A mental impulse, esp. one of desire or aversion; an urge, an inclination; an act of will. Obsolete. of one's proper movement: of one's own volition.

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the mind > emotion > hatred > feeling against or a settled dislike > impulse of aversion > [noun]

movementc1485

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > prompting of

stirring?c1225

motionc1390

puncture?a1425

movementc1485

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 25 He come nocht to his presence of his propre mouuement.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 132 Tobe renouned a worthy man of armes..was his principale mouement.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 187 (MED) Beholde wel al the meuementis of the body and of Corage, that ther be not in ham no filthehede.

1696 Alcander & Philocrates iii. 88 She threw her Arms about my neck, and embrac'd me tenderly, without being able to speak; and I burst into Tears, scarce able to breath. After these first Movements..I fell down at her feet.

1745 A. Pope Ess. Man (rev. ed.) ii. 43 Could he, whose rules the rapid Comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his Mind [earlier edd. the Soul]?

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 57 I blush'd in my turn; but from what movements, I leave to the few who feel to analyse.

1772 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (new ed.) I. x. 82 He has forgot the movements of his heart [1758 mind].

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ii. 19 The light and crimson mists..Yielded to every movement of the will.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Shabby-genteel Story ix Brandon had some good movements in him.

1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. 80 The movements of the will are select and pointed to an end.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. lxxviii. 265 Let it be forgiven to Will that he had no such movement of pity.

a. The moving parts of a mechanism, esp. of a watch, clock, or organ; a part or group of parts in a clock, organ, etc., serving a particular purpose. Also figurative.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of

nut1428

peise1428

plumbc1450

Jack1498

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larum1542

Jack of the clockhouse1563

watch-wheel1568

work1570

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Jack of the clock1581

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pointer1596

quarter jack1604

mainspring1605

winder1606

notch-wheel1611

fusee1622

count-wheel1647

jack-wheel1647

frame1658

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hour-figure1675

stop1675

pallet1676

regulator1676

cock1678

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detent1688

savage1690

clock1696

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starred wheel1696

swing-wheel1696

warning-wheel1696

watch1696

watch-part1696

hoop-wheel1704

hour-wheel1704

snail1714

step-wheel1714

tide-work1739

train1751

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scape1798

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bottle jack1810

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quarter-boy1815

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solar wheel1819

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pendulum wheel1825

pallet arbor1826

rewinder1826

rack hook1829

snail-wheel1831

quarter bell1832

tow1834

star pulley1836

watch train1838

clock train1843

raising-piece1843

wheelwork1843

gravity escapement1850

jumper1850

vertical escapement1850

time train1853

pin pallet1860

spade1862

dead well1867

stop-work1869

ringer1873

strike-or-silent1875

warning-piece1875

guard-pin1879

pendulum cock1881

warning-lever1881

beat-pin1883

fusee-piece1884

fusee-snail1884

shutter1884

tourbillion1884

tumbler1884

virgule1884

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grasshopper1899

grasshopper escapement1899

trunk1899

pin lever1908

clock spring1933

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > part of

gear1523

movement1678

moving part1825

1678 London Gaz. No. 1296/4 A Watch, with two silver Cases belonging to it, the Moodment [sic] being ungilt.

1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 648 This hoop and the 2 Plates form the Case of the Movement.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 83 If we look into its retired Movements, and more secret and latent Springs, we may there trace out a steady Hand, producing good out of evil.

1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §60 The spring and wheels, and every movement of a watch.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 307 A better movement of a watch, than about the middle of the last century could have been bought for twenty pounds, may now perhaps be had for twenty shillings.

1825 J. Crosse York Festival 137 There are movements likewise for enabling the performer to play two or three sets of keys at once [on the organ].

1860 R. W. Emerson Behaviour in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 156 Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

1880 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 607/2 A second substitute for the long tracker movements, etc., in large or separated organs, is the ‘pneumatic tubular transmission system’.

1904 F. J. Britten Old Clocks & Watches (ed. 2) iv. 244 During the eighteenth century watch movements having plain silver dials from three inches to four inches in diameter were fixed in circular frames of wood.

1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 21 Bar movement, early form of partly machine-made watch movement.

1988 Organbuilder May 14/1 The drawstop action to be removed in favour of an electric movement, thus relieving many immediate difficulties.

†b. A cause of movement. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > movement > [noun] > manner or means of movement

actuation1713

movement1725

motivation1946

1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 25 I shall take it as a Postulatum granted, viz. That the Heart is the principal Movement in human Bodies.

4. Music.

a. The manner of transition from note to note or passage to passage in a piece of music; relative speed, tempo. Now rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun]

proportiona1387

measurea1525

mode1561

casure1565

moodc1570

rhythm1576

rhyme1586

stotc1590

dimension1597

sextupla1597

timing1597

rhythmus1603

cadence1605

time1609

cadency1628

movement1683

lilt1841

metre1873

tempus1889

riddim1943

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > tempo > [noun]

timing?1578

motion1597

movement1683

tempo1724

motivo1876

time1878

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun] > melodic progression

progression1609

movement1683

succession1737

1683 H. Purcell Sonnata's of III Parts Pref. Allegro, and vivace, a very brisk, swift, or fast movement.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. at Allegro A Term in Musick when the Movement is quick.

1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Lent, or Lento, or Lentement, do all denote a Slow Movement.

1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 326/1 The most common movement of jiggs, which is by six or twelve quavers in a bar, have their bass, for the smoothness of the movement, often written in plain crotchets.

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Movement (Mus.), the progress or course of sounds from grave to acute, or from acute to grave.

1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 338 Some heart-thrilling chime, Some Dorian movement, bold or grave.

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 17/1 Adagietto (It.), a movement diminutive of Adagio.

1980 New Grove Dict. Music XII. 660/1 Such portions [of a work] are most obviously distinguishable by differences of tempo or ‘movement’.

b. A principal division of a longer musical work, usually differing in tempo from the other divisions and having a distinctive character of its own. Also in extended use.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > main division of opus

movement1694

1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 69 Upon the occasion of the difference of 3ds, and the difference of 6ths, he discourses which of them may be more properly made use of in movements of Consort-Musick.

1760 J. Mainwaring Mem. Life G. F. Handel 68 The two first movements of Handel's seventh suite in the 1st Vol. of his Lessons formerly stood for the Overture in his famous opera of Agrippina.

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 63 The beginning, or first movement of the piece he mentions, was in A.

1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 476 If the piece be intended for an overture to a three-act opera..or a grand sonata, it ought not to consist of fewer than three movements.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 28 She is led up from hall to hall of the high-piled edifice, in one continued movement, may we call it, of the poem.

1889 C. H. H. Parry in G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 20/2 The last movement [of Mozart's ‘Jupiter’ Symphony], with its elaborate fugal treatment, has a vigorous austerity.

1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 187 They sang entire movements from cantatas and oratorios and other items of sacred music.

1973 A. C. Boult My Own Trumpet iv. 43 He had said he felt the slow movement of the 7th to be one of the loveliest..in the whole symphonic literature.

1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled xxv. 357 As I began the second movement, I opened my eyes again and found the afternoon sunshine..throwing my shadow sharply across the keyboard.

5. Prosody. Rhythm; the particular rhythmical or accentual character given to a metrical pattern.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > rhythmical character

movement1749

1749 J. Mason Ess. Power of Numbers & Princ. Harmony 83 An Iambic..having a direct contrary Movement, interrupts the Run of the Verse very disagreeably.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Rhymic A term applied to that part of the ancient music which taught the practice and rules of movement and rhyme.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. Notes 274 The movement of the original is as important as its meaning. Shelley's translation of the stanzas, however, is preferable to Hayward's.

1871 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. 468 Propertius..in his later [poems]..approaches much nearer to the Ovidian movement.

1887 C. Bowen in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse Pref. 9 The orderly and majestic movement of the Roman hexameter.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 697/2 All metrical movement is of two kinds, according as the beat or emphasis begins the movement or ends it.

1945 Mod. Lang. Notes 60 313 The general metrical movement is the same as Poe's, though it is not quite exact.

6. Art and Architecture. In a building: †fluidity and harmony of design (obsolete). In a painting or sculpture: the quality of conveying an impression of motion in the figures depicted; fluid composition; an instance of this.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > qualities of work of art

contorno1759

breadth1770

movement1773

contour1780

rocococity1844

terribilità1877

1773 R. Adam & J. Adam Wks. in Archit. I. Pref. 3 (note) Movement is meant to express, the rise and fall, the advance and recess, with other diversity of form, in the different parts of a building, so as to add greatly to the picturesque of the composition.

c1782 Exhibition, or second Anticipation 35 They are nobly negligent of the constituent parts, and trust for the effect to the movement.

1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry iv. 126 Repose, rather than what artists call ‘movement’, was the characteristic of his designs.

1939 R. Fry Last Lect. 19 We begin to yield ourselves to the rhythmical movements of Botticelli's linear design.

1988 M. Dunford & J. Holland Real Guide Amsterdam (1989) ii. ii. 83 Splotchy colors give his beach scenes..a movement lacking in the works of the Hague School.

a. The way in which events or conditions are moving at a particular time or in a particular sphere; a tendency, a trend.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > course or direction

current1607

generalitiesa1628

bent1649

duct1650

turn1690

run1699

movement1789

swim1869

trend1884

1789 T. Jefferson Let. 8 Jan. in Papers (1958) XIV. 420 You say you are not sufficiently informed about the nature..of the present struggle here. Having..watched it's movements as an uninterested spectator,..I will give you my ideas of it.

1846 J. D. Morell Hist. & Crit. View Speculative Philos. I. 152 By so doing, he [sc. Descartes] has unquestionably merited the reputation of standing at the head of the whole modern movement of metaphysical philosophy.

1861 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilization Eng. II. vi. 587 Read by..thousands..who accept its conclusions because they like them; which is merely saying, because the movement of the age tends that way.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §1. 449 It was long before the religious movement..came into conflict with general culture.

1906 Hibbert Jrnl. Jan. 270 The terminus ad quem, or the end whither the theological movement of our age tends.

1938 E. W. Shanahan Mod. Econ. Organisation x. 235 The movement towards combination..has been successful in establishing monopolistic enterprises.

1992 Health Now Mar. 9/1 Homoeopathy plays an important role in the movement back to a more holistic approach to health.

b. in the movement: in or according with the tendency prevalent at a particular period or in a particular sphere. Cf. in the swim at swim n. 7a. Now rare.

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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > in modern times > in a modern manner

of the new jetc1330

modernly1612

in the movement1894

contemporarily1930

1894 World 5 Sept. 11/2 We have in The New Woman a live play, a play which is distinctly in the movement.

1907 Q. Rev. July 160 To make life vivid: to be ‘in the movement’, this was his [sc. Disraeli's] desire.

1908 H. James Portrait of Lady (rev. ed.) II. xliv. 228 The Countess could not but feel that the correspondent of the Interviewer was much more in the movement than the American Corinne.

1926 C. Sidgwick Sack & Sugar xxvi. 299 She..had quite antiquated Victorian ideas of what English people had nowadays if they were in the movement. She had not got beyond shiny chintzes and overmantels.

a. A course or series of actions and endeavours on the part of a group of people working towards a shared goal; an organization, coalition, or alliance of people working to advance a shared political, social, or artistic objective. Frequently with modifying word.New Age, Oxford, women's movement, etc.: see the first element.

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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > actions or endeavours tending to special end

movement1812

1812 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 25 July 99 This is the circumstance that will most puzzle the ministry. They can find no agitators. It is a movement of the people's own.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. viii. 250 A long line of secret communication made him the centre of every political movement.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 137 The Reformation was essentially a Teutonic movement.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Dec. 4/1 Oxford is the home they say of movements, and Cambridge of men.

1903 C. E. Osborne Life Fr. Dolling xxii The main aims and principles of the Catholic Movement in the Anglican Church.

1950 I. Berlin in Foreign Affairs 28 354 The two great liberating political movements of the nineteenth century were..humanitarian individualism and romantic nationalism.

1977 Time 31 Jan. 54/3 Urban guerrilla movements, such as the extinct Tupamaros of Uruguay, may have seen their day.

1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) 28 Apr. 7/6 The 52-year-old general..was a powerful focal point for the movement for total independence.

†b. The radical or liberalizing tendency prominent in European politics in the early 19th cent. Obsolete. See also movement party n. at Compounds 2.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > specific parties or groups in Europe generally

movement1832

Young Europe1832

movement party1835

Non-Aligned Movement1966

NAM1980

1831 J. S. Mill Let. 20–22 Oct. (1910) I. 4 The rejection of the Reform Bill..has given an immense impulse to the mouvement in this country.]

1832 Ann. Reg. 1831 i. Hist. Europe 336/1 The party of the resistance complained that the spirit in which ministers were acting would prevent for ever the formation of a strong, a firm, and a tranquil government; the men of the movement made the same complaint.

1838 J. S. Mill A. de Vigny in Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 291 The sympathies of the Radical or Movement poet will take the opposite direction.

1842 T. Arnold Lect. Mod. Hist. v. 246 The popular side in the great questions of English history, the side, in later language, of the movement.

c. Usually the Movement. A loose grouping of young English poets (and other writers) of the 1950s who sought to restore the values of rationalism and craftsmanship to poetry.The key figures are usually identified as those poets included in Robert Conquest's 1956 anthology New Lines: Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, Thom Gunn, John Holloway, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain, and Conquest himself. Their poetry of that period is regarded as typically anti-romantic and ironic in tone.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > school of poets or poetic movement > [noun]

Lake poets1816

Lake school1816

Satanic school1821

Spasmodic School1832

imagism1912

Acmeism1913

Adamism1913

unanimism1931

ultraism1932

the Movement1954

Simultaneism1959

spatialism1964

1954 Spectator 27 Aug. 261/1 Poets of the Fifties... For better or for worse, we are now in the presence of the only considerable movement in English poetry since the Thirties.]

1954 J. D. Scott in Spectator 1 Oct. 400/2 Genuflections towards Dr. Leavis and Professor Empson, admiration for people whom the Thirties by-passed, Orwell above all..are indeed signs by which you may recognise the Movement.

1955 P. Larkin Let. 23 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 236 I have a sort of feeling about Jonathan Price's poetry, even though it's handicapped at present by ‘movement’ idiom.

1972 D. Timms Philip Larkin i. 15 I am reminded here of John Wain's description of the Movement as an avant garde that was a rear guard.

2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Feb. 29/1 Enright later found affinities with ‘the Movement’—a loosely grouped school of poets that advocated terseness and public subjects in verse.

d. Usually the Movement. Any of several loosely affiliated left-wing movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s; spec. the women's liberation movement. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > opposition to

womanism1850

women's movement1851

woman's movement1853

woman movement1854

feminism1895

women's liberation1898

the Movement1966

women's group1968

women's lib1969

1966 Berkeley (Calif.) Barb 6 May 10 The Berkeley ‘Movement’ designs, builds, sets, and springs a vicious trap on itself.

1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers 25 Another man gets up, a white named Gerald Lefcourt, who is chief counsel for the Panther 21, a young man with thick black hair and the muttonchops of the Movement.

1971 It 9 Sept. 11/5 I spent ten years in ‘the movement’.

1973 Maclean's Jan. 45/3 My editor in New York..began writing ‘Ms.’ on her letters to me..and the office was full of The Movement.

1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures i. 7 I spent a lot of time buying coffee and doughnuts and rolling joints, and I spent some time on my back, too—the only position for a woman in the Movement.

2003 H. S. Thompson Kingdom of Fear ii. 81 This is what the bastards never understood—that the ‘Movement’ was essentially an expression of deep faith in the American Dream.

a. Progression of incidents or development of the plot in a poem or story; an instance of this. Also: the quality in a text (esp. a narrative) of being lively or full of incident.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > unfolding or course of

shape1357

discovery1668

movement1838

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xx. 233 The dialogue is written with much vivacity and grace, and with as much dramatic movement as is compatible with only two interlocutors.

1878–83 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Life & Times Machiavelli (1898) I. ix. 410 He wrote Latin verses full of movement and fervour.

1905 Daily Chron. 20 June 3/3 Pursuing his fascinating historico-biographic method, which gives to criticism the movement and charm of narrative.

1932 F. R. Leavis New Bearings in Eng. Poetry vi. 209 This poem..is partly dramatic in presentment, and exhibits great variety of theme, movement and tone.

1994 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 9 Jan. 1/2 His first novel..shows minimal concern for narrative movement or the in-depth portrayal of any of its myriad characters.

†b. Philosophy. The regular process or course of thought in reasoning. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [noun]

reasonc1330

skillingc1374

discourse?c1400

discursec1443

argumentationa1492

ratiocination1532

ration1548

discursion1603

discursiveness1647

discoursiveness1661

movement1869

1869 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 3 363 (note) The movement (or dialectic) of the syllogism consists in mediating each term so that in the higher forms each (term) becomes a complete realization of the Comprehension (or Totality).

10. Chiefly Stock Market. Change in price or value of a stock, share, commodity, etc.; change in value of a market as a whole.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > traffic in stocks and shares > (sudden or great) activity

high change1656

movement1847

flurry1876

boomlet1880

1847 Knickerbocker 30 165 The over-reaching ‘movements’ in flour which were every moment vibrating between New-York and Buffalo.

1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The movement in coffee is insignificant.

1913 Times 9 Aug. 17/6 The movements in trust companies' stocks were in the upward direction.

1993 Computing 2 Sept. 7/1 Derivatives are financial products based on the movements of shares, bonds, currencies and commodities.

11. Progress or development in a problem, project, etc. rare before late 20th cent.With quot. 1866, cf. quot. 1859 at move v. 19a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > to a further or higher stage

profitingc1384

progress1457

progression1586

movement1866

1866 J. Blackwood Let. 2 Aug. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) IV. 293 I have no particular features to report in the sale of Felix [Holt] since I last wrote, but there is movement.

1982 Times 24 Nov. 6/7 There has been no movement in other, equally nettlesome problems.

1991 D. Simon Homicide (1993) 463 Worden had been..waiting to see some movement on a case that Brown would like to see disappear.

12. Frequently in bowel movement. A motion of the bowels. Also (in singular and plural): faeces.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun]

purgationa1387

shitting1386

officec1395

outpassinga1398

subduction?a1425

easementa1438

cuckingc1440

siegea1475

evacuation?1533

stool1541

egestion1547

dunging1558

purging1579

stooling1599

cackc1600

motion1602

dejection1605

excretion1640

exclusion1646

purgament1650

exoneration1651

disenteration1654

orduring1654

crapping1673

passage1681

seat1697

opening1797

defecation1825

excreting1849

poopc1890

movement1891

job1899

shit?1927

crap1937

dump1942

soiling1943

gick1959

jobbie1981

pooh1981

1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Movement,..the act of evacuating the bowels; as well as the matter resulting therefrom.

1919 Outing Mar. 325/1 Regular movements of the bowels are aided by an abundance of exercise and by eating plenty of fruit.

1946 B. Spock Baby & Child Care 120 Mucus in the bowel movements is common when a baby has diarrhoea.

1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 14/2 He denied any gastrointestinal complaints, but he had two large soft bowel movements per day for as long as he could remember.

1995 Mother & Baby June 70/3 Bowel training may come first because movements happen less often and with more warning.

†II. Other uses.

13. A moment. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant

hand-whileOE

prinkOE

start-while?c1225

twinkling1303

rese?c1335

prick1340

momenta1382

pointa1382

minutea1393

instant1398

braida1400

siquarea1400

twink14..

whip?c1450

movement1490

punct1513

pissing whilea1556

trice1579

turning of a hand1579

wink1585

twinklec1592

semiquaver1602

punto1616

punctilio of time1620

punctum1620

breathing1625

instance1631

tantillation1651

rapc1700

crack1725

turning of a straw1755

pig's whisper1780

jiffy1785

less than no time1788

jiff1797

blinka1813

gliffy1820

handclap1822

glimpsea1824

eyewink1836

thought1836

eye-blink1838

semibreve1845

pop1847

two shakes of a lamb's taila1855

pig's whistle1859

time point1867

New York minute1870

tick1879

mo?1896

second1897

styme1897

split-second1912

split minute1931

no-time1942

sec.1956

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxi. sig. Fij^v That man..hath vtterd his secretes vnto the entierly so that thou knowest..the places, the houres & mouementes [Fr. moments] and the oportunyte of the tyme moost propyce for to speke wyth hym.

Compounds

C1.

movement control n.

ΚΠ

1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 334/2 Movement control.

1972 L. Lamb Pict. Frame ii. 21 He arranged with movement control to go a different way.

1991 M. Lynch & V. Grisogono Strokes & Head Injuries 116 Early walking without movement control does not contribute any kind of useful information to the patient's brain.

movement habit n.

ΚΠ

1920 T. P. Nunn Education xiii. 169 Recognition-habits of increasing complexity corresponding to the increasingly complex movement-habits of writing.

1981 Washington Post 9 Mar. c5/2 Carol Boggs..formerly on the dance faculty at American University, uses the Alexander Technique to help people ‘retrain postural and movement habits so they don't have pain’.

movement illusion n.

ΚΠ

1894 J. E. Creighton & E. B. Titchener tr. W. M. Wundt Lect. Human & Animal Psychol. ix. 137 It has sometimes been thought that the act of will suffices of itself to explain these subjective movement-illusions [Ger. Bewegungstäuschung].

1996 Jrnl. Physiol. 496 857 Skin stretch evoked movement illusions in eleven out of nineteen of subjects.

movement-impulse n.

ΚΠ

1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind iv. 156 The sensory impressions and the movement-impulse [Ger. Bewegungs-Impuls] of the animal under investigation.

movement maker n.

ΚΠ

1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ A movement maker, Internarum horologii portatilis partium faber.

1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 132 What movement makers call a bay-leaf pinion.

1977 B. Fowkes tr. K. Marx Capital I. 461 There are numerous subdivisions, such as wheel makers,..pin makers, movement makers, [etc.].

movement-melody n.

ΚΠ

1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind v. 259 In this unification a ‘movement-melody’ [Ger. Bewegungs-Melodie] composes itself.

movement-study n.

ΚΠ

1951 J. M. Fraser Psychol. xv. 187 It is fatally easy to make movement-study sound difficult.

C2.

movement area n. the part of an airport or aerodrome used for take-off, landing, and taxiing.

ΚΠ

1951 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 23 Landing area, the part of the movement area primarily intended for the take-off and landing of aircraft.

1972 Gloss. Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) xiii. 8 Movement area, that part of an aerodrome intended for the surface movement of aircraft, including the manoeuvring area and aprons.

movement-complex n. [after German Bewegungs-Komplex (1921 in the passage translated in quot. 1924)] a set of coordinated movements, as of fingers in the hand, etc., constituting a single physical action.

ΚΠ

1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind v. 251 Movement-complexes of grasping and touching..are learned even earlier than walking.

movement cure n. now historical = kinesiatrics n. at kinesi- comb. form .

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > physiotherapy > [noun] > treatment by muscular action

kinesipathy1855

movement cure1856

kinesiatrics-

kinesitherapy-

1856 M. Roth Movement Cure (title) The Movement Cure.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxii. 170 People will go to ‘water cures’ and ‘movement cures’ and to foreign lands for health.

1991 Esquire June 64/2 Gymnastics teacher Pehr Henrik Ling developed the Swedish Movement Cure, which became Swedish massage.

movement detector n. = motion detector n. at motion n. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1966 Jrnl. Physiol. 186 116 (title) Directionally selective movement detectors in the retina of the grey squirrel.

1982 Mining Mag. (Nexis) Nov. 464 The range includes a non-contacting radar controlled movement detector..[and] a conveyor belt slip and speed monitor.

1999 Evening Standard (Electronic ed.) 7 July Sgt Peirson recommends remote movement detector alarms for guarding expensive garden items such as sculptures, statues or other heavy objects. A sensor placed under the object will set off an alarm if an attempt is made to remove it.

movement order n. Military an instruction to transfer from one location to another.

ΚΠ

1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 334/2 Movement order.

1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble iii. 51 Your Movement Order will be sent to your Squadron in a few days.

1992 F. Forsyth Deceiver (BNC) 52 The movement order is here in front of me. Your man leaves tomorrow for a tour of our principal garrisons in Germany.

movement party n. [compare French parti du mouvement (1842)] now historical those people who were involved in or supported the radical or liberalizing tendency in European politics in the early 19th cent.; cf. sense 8b.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > specific parties or groups in Europe generally

movement1832

Young Europe1832

movement party1835

Non-Aligned Movement1966

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1835 T. De Quincey Tory's Acct. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 771/2 The new doctrines of Radical Reformers, or of that section amongst political men denominated the Movement party.

1835 Court Mag. 6 116/2 If the movement party retains its ascendency.

1890 New Eng. Mag. Dec. 539/2 [Wendell] Phillips was the fearles radical. He led forever the movement party.

1947 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 41 362 [François] Goguel writes around the central theme of the fundamental division of France under the Third Republic between two political tendencies, which he chooses to call the Party of Movement and the Party of the Established Order.]

movement permit n. a permit authorizing the transportation or conveyance of livestock, goods, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > movement of cattle > permit or restriction

movement permit1969

movement restriction1969

1969 Times 27 Jan. 10/8 Brucellosis accredited cattle only will be shown at the Surrey county show... Cattle entered there will require only a movement permit.

2000 Seattle Times (Nexis) 28 Dec. b7 Your story says that the people moving the house had ‘permits’ but those are highway movement permits.

movement response n. response to movement in the visual field.

ΚΠ

1954 L. B. Ames et al. Rorschach Responses in Old Age xii. 141 Human movement responses become more passive with increasing deterioration of subjects.

1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 88 303 Human movement responses..may be interpreted as an index of social approach during the administration of an inkblot test.

1990 Brain 113 1435 A hypothetical neural circuit that perseverates the eye movement response to both vestibular and optokinetic stimulation.

movement restriction n. a restriction on the transportation or conveyance of livestock, esp. in order to prevent the spread of disease.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > movement of cattle > permit or restriction

movement permit1969

movement restriction1969

1969 Times 6 Jan. 7/7 Hogs kept at home, and sometimes in one field because of movement restrictions, fared less well.

1991 Farmers Weekly (BNC) 26 June 25 The second period lasted more than 14 months and they dare not risk being caught again with so many cattle subject to movement restrictions for such a long time.

movement sensation n. the sensation of movement in a part of the body.

ΚΠ

1898 G. F. Stout Man. Psychol. I. ii. vi. 192 The distinction between position-sensations and movement-sensations is important.

1993 Jrnl. Vestibular Res. 3 259 Muscle vibration is able to elicit both illusory movement sensations and postural responses.

movement time n. Physiology the time taken to carry out a movement of a limb or other part of the body (usually taken to include reaction time).

ΚΠ

1952 New Biol. 13 58 The time between the beginning of his movement and the moment at which he starts to return back again is called ‘The Movement Time’.

1968 R. N. Singer Motor Learning & Human Performance iii. 67 Movement time may include reflex or reaction time, or, as it is usually viewed in research literature, the time a particular act takes to be completed after it has been initiated.

1998 Behavioral Neurosci. 112 154 Higher levels of estradiol in women's blood were associated with faster total movement time.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	movement
释义	movementn. Brit. /ˈmuːvm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈmuvm(ə)nt/ Forms: Middle English meuement, Middle English moevement, Middle English mouement, Middle English mouvement, Middle English– movement, 1600s moodment (transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 mouiment, pre-1700 mouvement, pre-1700 1700s– movement. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French movement. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman movement, moevement and Middle French movement, French mouvement (see below) < mouvoir move v. + -ment -ment suffix. Compare post-classical Latin movementum motion (15th cent. in a British source; also earlier movimentum emotion (c900), rebellion, uprising (a1329)). Compare also Old Occitan movemen (mid 13th cent.), Spanish movimiento (c1250), Catalan moviment (13th cent.), Italian movimento (13th cent.), Portuguese movimento (15th cent.).Rare in the 16th and early 17th centuries; not found, e.g., in Shakespeare, Milton, or the Bible of 1611. Uses in French include: action or manner of moving oneself or of moving a part of the body (early 13th cent.; late 14th cent. in les mouvemens du ciel , lit. ‘the movements of heaven’; compare sense 1a); impulse which causes a person to act in a particular manner (late 13th cent.; early 15th cent. in phrase de son propre mouvement ; compare sense 2); movement of a military force (1676; compare sense 1d); moving parts of the mechanism of a clock or watch (1659; compare sense 3a); speed at which a musical piece is played (1690; compare sense 4a); transition from one note to another in a piece of music (1691; compare sense 4a); social change (1784; compare sense 7a; 1881 in phrase (être) dans le mouvement ; compare sense 7b); collective action intended to bring about social or political change (1790; compare sense 8a). I. A change of place or position; a progress, change, development, etc. 1. A change of physical location. a. The action or process of moving; change of position or posture; passage from place to place, or from one situation to another. Also: an instance or kind of this; a particular act or manner of moving. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > [noun] stirringc888 pacec1300 wawingc1305 bestirring1340 movinga1382 movementa1393 startlinga1398 flittinga1400 motionc1425 shiftingc1440 agitation1573 motiveness1611 go1635 moment1641 remover1653 move1818 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 674 (MED) Astronomie..makth a man have knowlechinge Of Sterres in the firmament, Figure, cercle and moevement..Hou so thei moeve or stonde faste. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. ii. 108 Thou nilt nat thanne denye..that the moevement of goynge [L. Ambulandi..motum] nys in men by kynde? c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 70 The hevin..movis fra the orient to the occident..Bot the thingis yat ar corporale jn this erde..movis nocht with the moving of jt,..bot ȝit haue thai othir naturale movementis. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 36 The childir of seth..var the fyrst inuentours of the art of astronomie and inuestigatours of the celest coursis & mouimentis. a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) Pref. p. xviii Seeking in the movements of the heavenly bodies for a clue to the accidents of life. 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 419 All the Movement of the Soul here is only to will the Movement of the Body towards these things. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 62 In human works, tho' labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 241 Yet it is the small secreted spring that directs, draws, checks, and gives movement to every weight and wheel. 1802 T. Jefferson Let. 2 Nov. in Writings (1984) 1108 A roof..needing no underworks to support it, will permit the bason to be entirely open and free for the movement of the vessels. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xi. 324 The schoolmistress stepped back with a sudden movement. 1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) vii. 162 There was a general movement toward the door. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 32 Teeth whose movements when he ate seemed entirely unrelated with the movements of his jaw. 1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 151 There were no Japs to be seen, no movement at all. b. Dance. A change of position or posture; a step or figure. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > movement movement1715 dance move1960 1715 R. Steele Lover 24 Mr. Siris has made the beginning of this Movement very difficult for anyone who has not, from his natural Parts, a more than ordinary Qualification that way. 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xvii. 237 One of the most pleasing movements in country-dancing..is what they call ‘the hay’. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 305/1 Tambourin,..name of a dance performed on the French stage. The air is lively, and the movements are quick. 1903 W. Lamb How & what to Dance vii. 70 The Redowa, when first introduced, began with a promenade movement, but it is now generally commenced with the circular figure. 1949 Ballet Ann. iii. 40 Movement after movement was ruined by the broken line. 1993 Dance Connection Summer 36/1 She does not use the precise rhythms and movements of the Kathak dance traditionally. †c. Chess. = move n. 2a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > [noun] > move draughtc1369 move1656 movement1734 1734 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester (ed. 5) i. 128 The Queen..may pass from one end of the Board to the other at one Movement. 1734 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester (ed. 5) i. 131 After some Movements, you will find it impossible to proceed without exposing your Men or Officers. 1815 W. Scott Antiquary II. viii. 102 Francie was..foiled in his assaults upon the fidelity of the mendicant, and, like an indifferent chess-player, became, at every unsuccessful movement, more liable to the counter-checks of his opponent. d. A change of position of a military force, esp. for tactical or strategic reasons; a manoeuvre. Cf. evolution n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] manoeuvre1759 movement1762 manoeuvring1786 1762 G. Cockings War iii. 18 (note) M. de Bougainville, whom the feign'd movements of the English troops, had drawn up the river, turn'd back on discovering their real design. 1784 W. Carter (title) Genuine Detail of the several Engagements, Positions and Movements of the Royal and American Armies during the years 1775 and 1776. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) Hurry and delay, in military movements, are two extremes which should be equally avoided. 1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 401 But the march of Mortier with some 15,000 men from Aragon to their assistance had been ascertained, and it was certain therefore that a movement might be apprehended from that quarter. 1859 Field Exercise Infantry (rev. ed.) iii. 95 The double march is not applied to the movements of large bodies of troops for a longer distance than is required in a charge, or a short rush. 1955 A. Galland First & Last xii. 91 The fighter supporting land operations of the army is exclusively a tactical arm..for attacking at low level enemy positions and troop movements in the front line. 1996 Soldier of Fortune Mar. 34/1 Mines..were planted carefully to channel enemy troop movements into kill zones. e. A journey, outing, commission, or other significant activity undertaken by a person or group of people. Usually in plural.Frequently used in the context of crime, espionage, surveillance, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > [noun] > proceedings or doings workingOE workOE workOE doingsa1387 practica1475 gearc1475 proceeding1524 practice1547 activity1570 courses1592 acting1596 motion1667 ongoings1673 energies1747 deed1788 movement1803 1803 T. Jefferson Let. 20 June in Writings (1984) 1126 Your movements while within the limits of the U.S. will be better directed by occasional communications. 1833 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) III. 388 He was one of the five who called the night before, and arranged for us then part of the movements of this day. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 406 The close attention which was paid in England to every step and movement of the new emperor. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xvi. 201 She hated questioning Liddy about her husband's movements. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xx. 192 The sharpest eyes in the world are watching his every movement. 1958 R. Narayan Guide v. 78 I had dismissed the car at the cinema. I did not want Gaffur to watch my movements. 1992 Time 28 Sept. 20/3 Plainclothes antiterrorist police had been tracking the movements of a lithe young couple for weeks. f. The transportation or conveyance of livestock, goods, people, etc.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > movement of cattle movement1847 transhumance1911 1847 Commerc. Rev. South & West June 563 It is impossible to foresee what may be the movement of freight as well as passengers in the course of a very few years. 1869 Act 32 & 33 Victoria c. 70 §48 The effectual isolation of infected places in respect of the movement of animals and things. 1878 Act 41 & 42 Vict. c. 74 §32 Prohibiting or regulating the movement of animals and persons into, in, or out of an infected place or area. 1903 Missionary Rec. United Free Church Scotl. Sept. 394/1 There have been considerable movements of population from the Continent to Canada. 1944 Times 8 Apr. 2/4 The movement of opencast coal has been increased by 80,000 tons a week. 1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 June 37/4 The United States and Great Britain mounted an intelligence effort..to monitor the movement of Nazi gold to Switzerland. g. The power or facility of voluntary movement of a part of the body. ΚΠ 1878 M. Foster Physiol. iii. vi. §4/511 Anaesthesia (a loss of sensation) and akinesia (a loss of movement). 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xviii. 478 Where sensation in a limb is lost, movement is uncontrolled and inco-ordinated. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 278 442/1 By the seventy-second hospital day the right-eye movement was slightly improved, and he was able to feed himself. 1998 Today's Golfer Sept. 62/2 You lose your movement in the wrists which means they will not hinge. h. A departure or arrival of an aircraft. Now sometimes also used of trains, buses, ships, etc. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > departure or arrival of aircraft movement1958 1958 ‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose i. 7 I glanced at the movements board. There was a Dakota freighter scheduled to leave..at one o'clock in the morning. 1969 Sunday Times 17 Aug. (Colour Suppl.) 19/1 Many of the major airports are suffering from aerial traffic jams, and the 747 will mean only one movement where there might have been two or more. 1976 Railway Mag. Aug. 404/2 The operation of a line..which..can daily run..some 500 movements both in to and out of Victoria. 1991 Pilot Nov. 60/1 Nottingham airport had a record number of movements in one day, 142 take-offs and landings. †2. A mental impulse, esp. one of desire or aversion; an urge, an inclination; an act of will. Obsolete. of one's proper movement: of one's own volition. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > feeling against or a settled dislike > impulse of aversion > [noun] movementc1485 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > prompting of stirring?c1225 motionc1390 puncture?a1425 movementc1485 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 25 He come nocht to his presence of his propre mouuement. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 132 Tobe renouned a worthy man of armes..was his principale mouement. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 187 (MED) Beholde wel al the meuementis of the body and of Corage, that ther be not in ham no filthehede. 1696 Alcander & Philocrates iii. 88 She threw her Arms about my neck, and embrac'd me tenderly, without being able to speak; and I burst into Tears, scarce able to breath. After these first Movements..I fell down at her feet. 1745 A. Pope Ess. Man (rev. ed.) ii. 43 Could he, whose rules the rapid Comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his Mind [earlier edd. the Soul]? 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 57 I blush'd in my turn; but from what movements, I leave to the few who feel to analyse. 1772 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (new ed.) I. x. 82 He has forgot the movements of his heart [1758 mind]. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ii. 19 The light and crimson mists..Yielded to every movement of the will. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Shabby-genteel Story ix Brandon had some good movements in him. 1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. 80 The movements of the will are select and pointed to an end. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. lxxviii. 265 Let it be forgiven to Will that he had no such movement of pity. 3. a. The moving parts of a mechanism, esp. of a watch, clock, or organ; a part or group of parts in a clock, organ, etc., serving a particular purpose. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of nut1428 peise1428 plumbc1450 Jack1498 clockwork1516 larum1542 Jack of the clockhouse1563 watch-wheel1568 work1570 plummeta1578 Jack of the clock1581 snail-cam1591 snail-work1591 pointer1596 quarter jack1604 mainspring1605 winder1606 notch-wheel1611 fusee1622 count-wheel1647 jack-wheel1647 frame1658 arbor1659 balance1660 fuse1674 hour-figure1675 stop1675 pallet1676 regulator1676 cock1678 movement1678 detent1688 savage1690 clock1696 pinwheel1696 starred wheel1696 swing-wheel1696 warning-wheel1696 watch1696 watch-part1696 hoop-wheel1704 hour-wheel1704 snail1714 step-wheel1714 tide-work1739 train1751 crutch1753 cannon pinion1764 rising board1769 remontoire1774 escapement1779 clock jack1784 locking plate1786 scapement1789 motion work1795 anchor escapement1798 scape1798 star-wheel1798 recoil escapement1800 recoiling pallet1801 recoiling scapement1801 cannon1802 hammer-tail1805 recoiling escapement1805 bottle jack1810 renovating spring1812 quarter-boy1815 pin tooth1817 solar wheel1819 impulse-teeth1825 pendulum wheel1825 pallet arbor1826 rewinder1826 rack hook1829 snail-wheel1831 quarter bell1832 tow1834 star pulley1836 watch train1838 clock train1843 raising-piece1843 wheelwork1843 gravity escapement1850 jumper1850 vertical escapement1850 time train1853 pin pallet1860 spade1862 dead well1867 stop-work1869 ringer1873 strike-or-silent1875 warning-piece1875 guard-pin1879 pendulum cock1881 warning-lever1881 beat-pin1883 fusee-piece1884 fusee-snail1884 shutter1884 tourbillion1884 tumbler1884 virgule1884 foliot1899 grasshopper1899 grasshopper escapement1899 trunk1899 pin lever1908 clock spring1933 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > part of gear1523 movement1678 moving part1825 1678 London Gaz. No. 1296/4 A Watch, with two silver Cases belonging to it, the Moodment [sic] being ungilt. 1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 648 This hoop and the 2 Plates form the Case of the Movement. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 83 If we look into its retired Movements, and more secret and latent Springs, we may there trace out a steady Hand, producing good out of evil. 1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §60 The spring and wheels, and every movement of a watch. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 307 A better movement of a watch, than about the middle of the last century could have been bought for twenty pounds, may now perhaps be had for twenty shillings. View more context for this quotation 1825 J. Crosse York Festival 137 There are movements likewise for enabling the performer to play two or three sets of keys at once [on the organ]. 1860 R. W. Emerson Behaviour in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 156 Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement. 1880 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 607/2 A second substitute for the long tracker movements, etc., in large or separated organs, is the ‘pneumatic tubular transmission system’. 1904 F. J. Britten Old Clocks & Watches (ed. 2) iv. 244 During the eighteenth century watch movements having plain silver dials from three inches to four inches in diameter were fixed in circular frames of wood. 1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 21 Bar movement, early form of partly machine-made watch movement. 1988 Organbuilder May 14/1 The drawstop action to be removed in favour of an electric movement, thus relieving many immediate difficulties. †b. A cause of movement. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > [noun] > manner or means of movement actuation1713 movement1725 motivation1946 1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 25 I shall take it as a Postulatum granted, viz. That the Heart is the principal Movement in human Bodies. 4. Music. a. The manner of transition from note to note or passage to passage in a piece of music; relative speed, tempo. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] proportiona1387 measurea1525 mode1561 casure1565 moodc1570 rhythm1576 rhyme1586 stotc1590 dimension1597 sextupla1597 timing1597 rhythmus1603 cadence1605 time1609 cadency1628 movement1683 lilt1841 metre1873 tempus1889 riddim1943 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > tempo > [noun] timing?1578 motion1597 movement1683 tempo1724 motivo1876 time1878 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun] > melodic progression progression1609 movement1683 succession1737 1683 H. Purcell Sonnata's of III Parts Pref. Allegro, and vivace, a very brisk, swift, or fast movement. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. at Allegro A Term in Musick when the Movement is quick. 1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. Lent, or Lento, or Lentement, do all denote a Slow Movement. 1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 326/1 The most common movement of jiggs, which is by six or twelve quavers in a bar, have their bass, for the smoothness of the movement, often written in plain crotchets. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Movement (Mus.), the progress or course of sounds from grave to acute, or from acute to grave. 1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 338 Some heart-thrilling chime, Some Dorian movement, bold or grave. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 17/1 Adagietto (It.), a movement diminutive of Adagio. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music XII. 660/1 Such portions [of a work] are most obviously distinguishable by differences of tempo or ‘movement’. b. A principal division of a longer musical work, usually differing in tempo from the other divisions and having a distinctive character of its own. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > main division of opus movement1694 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 69 Upon the occasion of the difference of 3ds, and the difference of 6ths, he discourses which of them may be more properly made use of in movements of Consort-Musick. 1760 J. Mainwaring Mem. Life G. F. Handel 68 The two first movements of Handel's seventh suite in the 1st Vol. of his Lessons formerly stood for the Overture in his famous opera of Agrippina. 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 63 The beginning, or first movement of the piece he mentions, was in A. 1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 476 If the piece be intended for an overture to a three-act opera..or a grand sonata, it ought not to consist of fewer than three movements. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 28 She is led up from hall to hall of the high-piled edifice, in one continued movement, may we call it, of the poem. 1889 C. H. H. Parry in G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 20/2 The last movement [of Mozart's ‘Jupiter’ Symphony], with its elaborate fugal treatment, has a vigorous austerity. 1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 187 They sang entire movements from cantatas and oratorios and other items of sacred music. 1973 A. C. Boult My Own Trumpet iv. 43 He had said he felt the slow movement of the 7th to be one of the loveliest..in the whole symphonic literature. 1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled xxv. 357 As I began the second movement, I opened my eyes again and found the afternoon sunshine..throwing my shadow sharply across the keyboard. 5. Prosody. Rhythm; the particular rhythmical or accentual character given to a metrical pattern. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > rhythmical character movement1749 1749 J. Mason Ess. Power of Numbers & Princ. Harmony 83 An Iambic..having a direct contrary Movement, interrupts the Run of the Verse very disagreeably. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Rhymic A term applied to that part of the ancient music which taught the practice and rules of movement and rhyme. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. Notes 274 The movement of the original is as important as its meaning. Shelley's translation of the stanzas, however, is preferable to Hayward's. 1871 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. 468 Propertius..in his later [poems]..approaches much nearer to the Ovidian movement. 1887 C. Bowen in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse Pref. 9 The orderly and majestic movement of the Roman hexameter. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 697/2 All metrical movement is of two kinds, according as the beat or emphasis begins the movement or ends it. 1945 Mod. Lang. Notes 60 313 The general metrical movement is the same as Poe's, though it is not quite exact. 6. Art and Architecture. In a building: †fluidity and harmony of design (obsolete). In a painting or sculpture: the quality of conveying an impression of motion in the figures depicted; fluid composition; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > qualities of work of art contorno1759 breadth1770 movement1773 contour1780 rocococity1844 terribilità1877 1773 R. Adam & J. Adam Wks. in Archit. I. Pref. 3 (note) Movement is meant to express, the rise and fall, the advance and recess, with other diversity of form, in the different parts of a building, so as to add greatly to the picturesque of the composition. c1782 Exhibition, or second Anticipation 35 They are nobly negligent of the constituent parts, and trust for the effect to the movement. 1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry iv. 126 Repose, rather than what artists call ‘movement’, was the characteristic of his designs. 1939 R. Fry Last Lect. 19 We begin to yield ourselves to the rhythmical movements of Botticelli's linear design. 1988 M. Dunford & J. Holland Real Guide Amsterdam (1989) ii. ii. 83 Splotchy colors give his beach scenes..a movement lacking in the works of the Hague School. 7. a. The way in which events or conditions are moving at a particular time or in a particular sphere; a tendency, a trend. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > course or direction current1607 generalitiesa1628 bent1649 duct1650 turn1690 run1699 movement1789 swim1869 trend1884 1789 T. Jefferson Let. 8 Jan. in Papers (1958) XIV. 420 You say you are not sufficiently informed about the nature..of the present struggle here. Having..watched it's movements as an uninterested spectator,..I will give you my ideas of it. 1846 J. D. Morell Hist. & Crit. View Speculative Philos. I. 152 By so doing, he [sc. Descartes] has unquestionably merited the reputation of standing at the head of the whole modern movement of metaphysical philosophy. 1861 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilization Eng. II. vi. 587 Read by..thousands..who accept its conclusions because they like them; which is merely saying, because the movement of the age tends that way. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §1. 449 It was long before the religious movement..came into conflict with general culture. 1906 Hibbert Jrnl. Jan. 270 The terminus ad quem, or the end whither the theological movement of our age tends. 1938 E. W. Shanahan Mod. Econ. Organisation x. 235 The movement towards combination..has been successful in establishing monopolistic enterprises. 1992 Health Now Mar. 9/1 Homoeopathy plays an important role in the movement back to a more holistic approach to health. b. in the movement: in or according with the tendency prevalent at a particular period or in a particular sphere. Cf. in the swim at swim n. 7a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > in modern times > in a modern manner of the new jetc1330 modernly1612 in the movement1894 contemporarily1930 1894 World 5 Sept. 11/2 We have in The New Woman a live play, a play which is distinctly in the movement. 1907 Q. Rev. July 160 To make life vivid: to be ‘in the movement’, this was his [sc. Disraeli's] desire. 1908 H. James Portrait of Lady (rev. ed.) II. xliv. 228 The Countess could not but feel that the correspondent of the Interviewer was much more in the movement than the American Corinne. 1926 C. Sidgwick Sack & Sugar xxvi. 299 She..had quite antiquated Victorian ideas of what English people had nowadays if they were in the movement. She had not got beyond shiny chintzes and overmantels. 8. a. A course or series of actions and endeavours on the part of a group of people working towards a shared goal; an organization, coalition, or alliance of people working to advance a shared political, social, or artistic objective. Frequently with modifying word.New Age, Oxford, women's movement, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > actions or endeavours tending to special end movement1812 1812 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 25 July 99 This is the circumstance that will most puzzle the ministry. They can find no agitators. It is a movement of the people's own. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. viii. 250 A long line of secret communication made him the centre of every political movement. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 137 The Reformation was essentially a Teutonic movement. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Dec. 4/1 Oxford is the home they say of movements, and Cambridge of men. 1903 C. E. Osborne Life Fr. Dolling xxii The main aims and principles of the Catholic Movement in the Anglican Church. 1950 I. Berlin in Foreign Affairs 28 354 The two great liberating political movements of the nineteenth century were..humanitarian individualism and romantic nationalism. 1977 Time 31 Jan. 54/3 Urban guerrilla movements, such as the extinct Tupamaros of Uruguay, may have seen their day. 1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) 28 Apr. 7/6 The 52-year-old general..was a powerful focal point for the movement for total independence. †b. The radical or liberalizing tendency prominent in European politics in the early 19th cent. Obsolete. See also movement party n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > specific parties or groups in Europe generally movement1832 Young Europe1832 movement party1835 Non-Aligned Movement1966 NAM1980 1831 J. S. Mill Let. 20–22 Oct. (1910) I. 4 The rejection of the Reform Bill..has given an immense impulse to the mouvement in this country.] 1832 Ann. Reg. 1831 i. Hist. Europe 336/1 The party of the resistance complained that the spirit in which ministers were acting would prevent for ever the formation of a strong, a firm, and a tranquil government; the men of the movement made the same complaint. 1838 J. S. Mill A. de Vigny in Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 291 The sympathies of the Radical or Movement poet will take the opposite direction. 1842 T. Arnold Lect. Mod. Hist. v. 246 The popular side in the great questions of English history, the side, in later language, of the movement. c. Usually the Movement. A loose grouping of young English poets (and other writers) of the 1950s who sought to restore the values of rationalism and craftsmanship to poetry.The key figures are usually identified as those poets included in Robert Conquest's 1956 anthology New Lines: Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, Thom Gunn, John Holloway, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain, and Conquest himself. Their poetry of that period is regarded as typically anti-romantic and ironic in tone. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > school of poets or poetic movement > [noun] Lake poets1816 Lake school1816 Satanic school1821 Spasmodic School1832 imagism1912 Acmeism1913 Adamism1913 unanimism1931 ultraism1932 the Movement1954 Simultaneism1959 spatialism1964 1954 Spectator 27 Aug. 261/1 Poets of the Fifties... For better or for worse, we are now in the presence of the only considerable movement in English poetry since the Thirties.] 1954 J. D. Scott in Spectator 1 Oct. 400/2 Genuflections towards Dr. Leavis and Professor Empson, admiration for people whom the Thirties by-passed, Orwell above all..are indeed signs by which you may recognise the Movement. 1955 P. Larkin Let. 23 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 236 I have a sort of feeling about Jonathan Price's poetry, even though it's handicapped at present by ‘movement’ idiom. 1972 D. Timms Philip Larkin i. 15 I am reminded here of John Wain's description of the Movement as an avant garde that was a rear guard. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Feb. 29/1 Enright later found affinities with ‘the Movement’—a loosely grouped school of poets that advocated terseness and public subjects in verse. d. Usually the Movement. Any of several loosely affiliated left-wing movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s; spec. the women's liberation movement. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > opposition to womanism1850 women's movement1851 woman's movement1853 woman movement1854 feminism1895 women's liberation1898 the Movement1966 women's group1968 women's lib1969 1966 Berkeley (Calif.) Barb 6 May 10 The Berkeley ‘Movement’ designs, builds, sets, and springs a vicious trap on itself. 1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers 25 Another man gets up, a white named Gerald Lefcourt, who is chief counsel for the Panther 21, a young man with thick black hair and the muttonchops of the Movement. 1971 It 9 Sept. 11/5 I spent ten years in ‘the movement’. 1973 Maclean's Jan. 45/3 My editor in New York..began writing ‘Ms.’ on her letters to me..and the office was full of The Movement. 1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures i. 7 I spent a lot of time buying coffee and doughnuts and rolling joints, and I spent some time on my back, too—the only position for a woman in the Movement. 2003 H. S. Thompson Kingdom of Fear ii. 81 This is what the bastards never understood—that the ‘Movement’ was essentially an expression of deep faith in the American Dream. 9. a. Progression of incidents or development of the plot in a poem or story; an instance of this. Also: the quality in a text (esp. a narrative) of being lively or full of incident. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > unfolding or course of shape1357 discovery1668 movement1838 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xx. 233 The dialogue is written with much vivacity and grace, and with as much dramatic movement as is compatible with only two interlocutors. 1878–83 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Life & Times Machiavelli (1898) I. ix. 410 He wrote Latin verses full of movement and fervour. 1905 Daily Chron. 20 June 3/3 Pursuing his fascinating historico-biographic method, which gives to criticism the movement and charm of narrative. 1932 F. R. Leavis New Bearings in Eng. Poetry vi. 209 This poem..is partly dramatic in presentment, and exhibits great variety of theme, movement and tone. 1994 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 9 Jan. 1/2 His first novel..shows minimal concern for narrative movement or the in-depth portrayal of any of its myriad characters. †b. Philosophy. The regular process or course of thought in reasoning. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [noun] reasonc1330 skillingc1374 discourse?c1400 discursec1443 argumentationa1492 ratiocination1532 ration1548 discursion1603 discursiveness1647 discoursiveness1661 movement1869 1869 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 3 363 (note) The movement (or dialectic) of the syllogism consists in mediating each term so that in the higher forms each (term) becomes a complete realization of the Comprehension (or Totality). 10. Chiefly Stock Market. Change in price or value of a stock, share, commodity, etc.; change in value of a market as a whole. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > traffic in stocks and shares > (sudden or great) activity high change1656 movement1847 flurry1876 boomlet1880 1847 Knickerbocker 30 165 The over-reaching ‘movements’ in flour which were every moment vibrating between New-York and Buffalo. 1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The movement in coffee is insignificant. 1913 Times 9 Aug. 17/6 The movements in trust companies' stocks were in the upward direction. 1993 Computing 2 Sept. 7/1 Derivatives are financial products based on the movements of shares, bonds, currencies and commodities. 11. Progress or development in a problem, project, etc. rare before late 20th cent.With quot. 1866, cf. quot. 1859 at move v. 19a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > to a further or higher stage profitingc1384 progress1457 progression1586 movement1866 1866 J. Blackwood Let. 2 Aug. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) IV. 293 I have no particular features to report in the sale of Felix [Holt] since I last wrote, but there is movement. 1982 Times 24 Nov. 6/7 There has been no movement in other, equally nettlesome problems. 1991 D. Simon Homicide (1993) 463 Worden had been..waiting to see some movement on a case that Brown would like to see disappear. 12. Frequently in bowel movement. A motion of the bowels. Also (in singular and plural): faeces. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun] purgationa1387 shitting1386 officec1395 outpassinga1398 subduction?a1425 easementa1438 cuckingc1440 siegea1475 evacuation?1533 stool1541 egestion1547 dunging1558 purging1579 stooling1599 cackc1600 motion1602 dejection1605 excretion1640 exclusion1646 purgament1650 exoneration1651 disenteration1654 orduring1654 crapping1673 passage1681 seat1697 opening1797 defecation1825 excreting1849 poopc1890 movement1891 job1899 shit?1927 crap1937 dump1942 soiling1943 gick1959 jobbie1981 pooh1981 1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Movement,..the act of evacuating the bowels; as well as the matter resulting therefrom. 1919 Outing Mar. 325/1 Regular movements of the bowels are aided by an abundance of exercise and by eating plenty of fruit. 1946 B. Spock Baby & Child Care 120 Mucus in the bowel movements is common when a baby has diarrhoea. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 14/2 He denied any gastrointestinal complaints, but he had two large soft bowel movements per day for as long as he could remember. 1995 Mother & Baby June 70/3 Bowel training may come first because movements happen less often and with more warning. †II. Other uses. 13. A moment. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant hand-whileOE prinkOE start-while?c1225 twinkling1303 rese?c1335 prick1340 momenta1382 pointa1382 minutea1393 instant1398 braida1400 siquarea1400 twink14.. whip?c1450 movement1490 punct1513 pissing whilea1556 trice1579 turning of a hand1579 wink1585 twinklec1592 semiquaver1602 punto1616 punctilio of time1620 punctum1620 breathing1625 instance1631 tantillation1651 rapc1700 crack1725 turning of a straw1755 pig's whisper1780 jiffy1785 less than no time1788 jiff1797 blinka1813 gliffy1820 handclap1822 glimpsea1824 eyewink1836 thought1836 eye-blink1838 semibreve1845 pop1847 two shakes of a lamb's taila1855 pig's whistle1859 time point1867 New York minute1870 tick1879 mo?1896 second1897 styme1897 split-second1912 split minute1931 no-time1942 sec.1956 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxi. sig. Fij^v That man..hath vtterd his secretes vnto the entierly so that thou knowest..the places, the houres & mouementes [Fr. moments] and the oportunyte of the tyme moost propyce for to speke wyth hym. Compounds C1. movement control n. ΚΠ 1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 334/2 Movement control. 1972 L. Lamb Pict. Frame ii. 21 He arranged with movement control to go a different way. 1991 M. Lynch & V. Grisogono Strokes & Head Injuries 116 Early walking without movement control does not contribute any kind of useful information to the patient's brain. movement habit n. ΚΠ 1920 T. P. Nunn Education xiii. 169 Recognition-habits of increasing complexity corresponding to the increasingly complex movement-habits of writing. 1981 Washington Post 9 Mar. c5/2 Carol Boggs..formerly on the dance faculty at American University, uses the Alexander Technique to help people ‘retrain postural and movement habits so they don't have pain’. movement illusion n. ΚΠ 1894 J. E. Creighton & E. B. Titchener tr. W. M. Wundt Lect. Human & Animal Psychol. ix. 137 It has sometimes been thought that the act of will suffices of itself to explain these subjective movement-illusions [Ger. Bewegungstäuschung]. 1996 Jrnl. Physiol. 496 857 Skin stretch evoked movement illusions in eleven out of nineteen of subjects. movement-impulse n. ΚΠ 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind iv. 156 The sensory impressions and the movement-impulse [Ger. Bewegungs-Impuls] of the animal under investigation. movement maker n. ΚΠ 1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ A movement maker, Internarum horologii portatilis partium faber. 1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 132 What movement makers call a bay-leaf pinion. 1977 B. Fowkes tr. K. Marx Capital I. 461 There are numerous subdivisions, such as wheel makers,..pin makers, movement makers, [etc.]. movement-melody n. ΚΠ 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind v. 259 In this unification a ‘movement-melody’ [Ger. Bewegungs-Melodie] composes itself. movement-study n. ΚΠ 1951 J. M. Fraser Psychol. xv. 187 It is fatally easy to make movement-study sound difficult. C2. movement area n. the part of an airport or aerodrome used for take-off, landing, and taxiing. ΚΠ 1951 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 23 Landing area, the part of the movement area primarily intended for the take-off and landing of aircraft. 1972 Gloss. Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) xiii. 8 Movement area, that part of an aerodrome intended for the surface movement of aircraft, including the manoeuvring area and aprons. movement-complex n. [after German Bewegungs-Komplex (1921 in the passage translated in quot. 1924)] a set of coordinated movements, as of fingers in the hand, etc., constituting a single physical action. ΚΠ 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind v. 251 Movement-complexes of grasping and touching..are learned even earlier than walking. movement cure n. now historical = kinesiatrics n. at kinesi- comb. form . ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > physiotherapy > [noun] > treatment by muscular action kinesipathy1855 movement cure1856 kinesiatrics- kinesitherapy- 1856 M. Roth Movement Cure (title) The Movement Cure. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxii. 170 People will go to ‘water cures’ and ‘movement cures’ and to foreign lands for health. 1991 Esquire June 64/2 Gymnastics teacher Pehr Henrik Ling developed the Swedish Movement Cure, which became Swedish massage. movement detector n. = motion detector n. at motion n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1966 Jrnl. Physiol. 186 116 (title) Directionally selective movement detectors in the retina of the grey squirrel. 1982 Mining Mag. (Nexis) Nov. 464 The range includes a non-contacting radar controlled movement detector..[and] a conveyor belt slip and speed monitor. 1999 Evening Standard (Electronic ed.) 7 July Sgt Peirson recommends remote movement detector alarms for guarding expensive garden items such as sculptures, statues or other heavy objects. A sensor placed under the object will set off an alarm if an attempt is made to remove it. movement order n. Military an instruction to transfer from one location to another. ΚΠ 1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 334/2 Movement order. 1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble iii. 51 Your Movement Order will be sent to your Squadron in a few days. 1992 F. Forsyth Deceiver (BNC) 52 The movement order is here in front of me. Your man leaves tomorrow for a tour of our principal garrisons in Germany. movement party n. [compare French parti du mouvement (1842)] now historical those people who were involved in or supported the radical or liberalizing tendency in European politics in the early 19th cent.; cf. sense 8b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > specific parties or groups in Europe generally movement1832 Young Europe1832 movement party1835 Non-Aligned Movement1966 NAM1980 1835 T. De Quincey Tory's Acct. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 771/2 The new doctrines of Radical Reformers, or of that section amongst political men denominated the Movement party. 1835 Court Mag. 6 116/2 If the movement party retains its ascendency. 1890 New Eng. Mag. Dec. 539/2 [Wendell] Phillips was the fearles radical. He led forever the movement party. 1947 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 41 362 [François] Goguel writes around the central theme of the fundamental division of France under the Third Republic between two political tendencies, which he chooses to call the Party of Movement and the Party of the Established Order.] movement permit n. a permit authorizing the transportation or conveyance of livestock, goods, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > movement of cattle > permit or restriction movement permit1969 movement restriction1969 1969 Times 27 Jan. 10/8 Brucellosis accredited cattle only will be shown at the Surrey county show... Cattle entered there will require only a movement permit. 2000 Seattle Times (Nexis) 28 Dec. b7 Your story says that the people moving the house had ‘permits’ but those are highway movement permits. movement response n. response to movement in the visual field. ΚΠ 1954 L. B. Ames et al. Rorschach Responses in Old Age xii. 141 Human movement responses become more passive with increasing deterioration of subjects. 1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 88 303 Human movement responses..may be interpreted as an index of social approach during the administration of an inkblot test. 1990 Brain 113 1435 A hypothetical neural circuit that perseverates the eye movement response to both vestibular and optokinetic stimulation. movement restriction n. a restriction on the transportation or conveyance of livestock, esp. in order to prevent the spread of disease. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > movement of cattle > permit or restriction movement permit1969 movement restriction1969 1969 Times 6 Jan. 7/7 Hogs kept at home, and sometimes in one field because of movement restrictions, fared less well. 1991 Farmers Weekly (BNC) 26 June 25 The second period lasted more than 14 months and they dare not risk being caught again with so many cattle subject to movement restrictions for such a long time. movement sensation n. the sensation of movement in a part of the body. ΚΠ 1898 G. F. Stout Man. Psychol. I. ii. vi. 192 The distinction between position-sensations and movement-sensations is important. 1993 Jrnl. Vestibular Res. 3 259 Muscle vibration is able to elicit both illusory movement sensations and postural responses. movement time n. Physiology the time taken to carry out a movement of a limb or other part of the body (usually taken to include reaction time). ΚΠ 1952 New Biol. 13 58 The time between the beginning of his movement and the moment at which he starts to return back again is called ‘The Movement Time’. 1968 R. N. Singer Motor Learning & Human Performance iii. 67 Movement time may include reflex or reaction time, or, as it is usually viewed in research literature, the time a particular act takes to be completed after it has been initiated. 1998 Behavioral Neurosci. 112 154 Higher levels of estradiol in women's blood were associated with faster total movement time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1393
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