movementnoun
uk/ˈmuːv.mənt/us/ˈmuːv.mənt/movement noun (POSITION CHANGE)
B2 [ C or U ] a change of position:
what someone is doing during a particular period:
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- With one movement, she disarmed the man and pinned him against the wall.
- A sharp tap on the knee usually causes an involuntary movement of the lower leg.
- The movement of the ship caused the mast to sway from side to side.
- Satellite photographs provide us with a lot of information about their troop movements.
- Some people run their lives according to the movements of the stars.
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Movement
- ambulatory
- be treading water idiom
- catalepsy
- comings
- get
- gravitation
- immobile
- immobilize
- inert
- mobile
- motile
- motility
- motion
- movable
- moving
- pull
- pull up short idiom
- steady
- still
- tread
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movement noun (GROUP OF PEOPLE)
C1 [ C, + sing/pl verb ] a group of people with a particular set of aims:
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Activism & pressure groups
- activism
- activist
- agitation
- agitator
- agitprop
- CND
- gay activist
- gherao
- groundswell
- guerrilla
- hunger strike
- lobby
- petitioner
- protester
- radical
- rasta roko
- rebel
- rebellion
- reformer
- stir
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movement noun (CHANGE OPINION)
[ C or U ] a situation in which people change their opinion or the way that they live or work:
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Change and changes
- a change is as good as a rest idiom
- adjustment
- alteration
- blip
- changeover
- drift
- ebb
- fluctuate
- gradation
- metamorphosis
- modulate
- paradigm shift
- perversion
- punctuated equilibrium
- sea change
- shake-up
- speciation
- step change
- tide
- vicissitudes
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movement noun (PROGRESS)
[ U ] an occasion when something develops, changes, or happens in a particular way or direction:
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Change and changes
- a change is as good as a rest idiom
- adjustment
- alteration
- blip
- changeover
- drift
- ebb
- fluctuate
- gradation
- metamorphosis
- modulate
- paradigm shift
- perversion
- punctuated equilibrium
- sea change
- shake-up
- speciation
- step change
- tide
- vicissitudes
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movement noun (MUSIC)
[ C ] one of the main parts of a piece of classical music:
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Musical pieces
- arrangement
- bolero
- bossa nova
- Britannia
- cantata
- chorus
- fantasia
- melody
- nocturne
- octet
- opus
- passage
- playlist
- reel
- sextet
- signature tune
- solo
- song form
- string quartet
- trio
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movement noun (CLOCK/WATCH)
[ C ] the part of a clock or watch that turns the hands (= thin sticks) that point to the time
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Watches & clocks
- 24-hour clock
- against the clock idiom
- alarm
- alarm clock
- at/on the stroke of sth idiom
- bezel
- clock
- crystal
- hour hand
- hourglass
- lose
- minute hand
- pendulum
- radio alarm clock
- strike
- twenty-four-hour clock
- watchband
- watchstrap
- winder
- wristwatch
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movement noun (EXCRETE)
[ C ] polite word (used especially by doctors and nurses) an act of emptying the bowels:
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Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion
- accident
- anal fissure
- bathroom
- be caught/taken short idiom
- bowel movement
- call of nature idiom
- cowpat
- crap
- droppings
- dump
- go to the bathroom idiom
- guano
- melaena
- motion
- move
- pass
- poop
- regular
- shite
- turd
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