movement

noun

1. 1

   the act of changing location from one place to another

   police controlled the motion of the crowd

   the movement of people from the farms to the cities

2. 2

   the act of changing the location of something

   the movement of cargo onto the vessel

3. 3

   a change of position that does not entail a change of location

   the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise

   movement is a sign of life

4. 4

   a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

   he supported populist campaigns

   they worked in the cause of world peace

5. 5

   the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)

   it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement

6. 6

   a general tendency to change (as of opinion)

   not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book

   a broad movement of the electorate to the right

7. 7

   a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata

   the second movement is slow and melodic

8. 8

   a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

9. 9

   a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

   he was a charter member of the movement

   politicians have to respect a mass movement

10. 10

    an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object

    the cinema relies on apparent motion

    the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement

11. 11

    a euphemism for defecation

    he had a bowel movement