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单词 movement
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movementnoun

uk/ˈmuːv.mənt/us/ˈmuːv.mənt/

movement noun (POSITION CHANGE)

B2 [ C or U ] a change of position:

He made a sudden movement and frightened the bird away.
For a long time after the accident, he had no movement in (= was unable to move) his legs.
Her movements were somewhat clumsy.
sb's movements

what someone is doing during a particular period:

I don't know his movements this week.

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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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General words for movement
Acting and acts

movement noun (GROUP OF PEOPLE)

C1 [ C, + sing/pl verb ] a group of people with a particular set of aims:

the women's movement
The suffragette movement campaigned for votes for women.
[ + to infinitive ] a movement to stop animals being killed for their fur

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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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Groups of people

movement noun (CHANGE OPINION)

[ C or U ] a situation in which people change their opinion or the way that they live or work:

There has been a movement towards more women going back to work while their children are still young.
Recently there has been some movement away from traditional methods of teaching.

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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:

There has been little movement in the dollar (= it has not changed in value very much) today.

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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:

Beethoven's fifth symphony has four movements.

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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:

When did you last have a (bowel) movement?

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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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