motion movement move | 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, his move put him directly in my path |
movement | the act of changing the location of something, the movement of cargo onto the vessel |
troop movement | movement of military units to a new location |
motion movement move motility | 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, an impatient move of his hand, gastrointestinal motility |
fetal movement foetal movement | motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the th week of pregnancy) |
eye movement | the movement of the eyes |
campaign cause crusade drive movement effort | 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, the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant, the movement to end slavery, contributed to the war effort |
anti-war movement | a campaign against entering or continuing a war |
feminist movement feminism women's liberation movement women's lib | the movement aimed at equal rights for women |
gay liberation movement gay lib | the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression |
youth movement youth crusade | political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people |
course course of study course of instruction class | education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings, he took a course in basket weaving, flirting is not unknown in college classes |
art class | a class in which you learn to draw or paint |
childbirth-preparation class | a course that teaches pregnant women to use breathing and concentration and exercise techniques to use during labor |
life class | an art class using a live human model |
shop class shop | a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity), I built a birdhouse in shop |
class struggle class war class warfare | conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes) |
class action class-action suit | a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group |
course session class period recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
Schizomycetes class Schizomycetes | a former classification |
class Cyanobacteria Cyanophyceae class Cyanophyceae | photosynthetic bacteria found in fresh and salt water, having chlorophyll a and phycobilins, once thought to be algae: blue-green algae |
Sarcodina class Sarcodina | characterized by the formation of pseudopods for locomotion and taking food: Actinopoda, Rhizopoda |
Ciliata class Ciliata Ciliophora class Ciliophora | class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle |
Chrysophyceae class Chrysophyceae Heterokontae class Heterokontae | all the yellow-green algae having flagella of unequal length |
Xanthophyceae class Xanthophyceae | yellow-green algae |
Bacillariophyceae class Bacillariophyceae Diatomophyceae class Diatomophyceae | marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae: diatoms |
Phaeophyceae class Phaeophyceae | brown algae, mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae |
Cyclosporeae class Cyclosporeae | in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales |
Euglenophyceae class Euglenophyceae | coextensive with the division Euglenophyta |
Chlorophyceae class Chlorophyceae | algae distinguished chiefly by having flagella and a clear green color, their chlorophyll being masked little if at all by other pigments |
Ulvophyceae class Ulvophyceae | alternative name for the class Chlorophyceae in some classifications |
Charophyceae class Charophyceae | in some classifications: contains only the order Charales |
Rhodophyceae class Rhodophyceae | coextensive with the Rhodophyta: red algae |
Mastigophora class Mastigophora Flagellata class Flagellata | protozoa having flagella |
Cryptophyceae class Cryptophyceae | motile usually brownish-green protozoa-like algae |
Sporozoa class Sporozoa | strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile, includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites |
Ascidiaceae class Ascidiaceae | sometimes classified as an order: sea squirts |
Thaliacea class Thaliacea | small class of free-swimming tunicates, sometimes classified as an order |
Larvacea class Larvacea | small free-swimming tunicates, sometimes classified as an order |
Placodermi class Placodermi | extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws |
Chondrichthyes class Chondrichthyes | cartilaginous fishes |
Aves class Aves | (ornithology) the class of birds |
amphibia class Amphibia | the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water, frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, caecilians |
Reptilia class Reptilia | class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates, once the dominant land animals |
Arachnida class Arachnida | a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs, have four pairs of walking legs and no wings |
Pauropoda class Pauropoda | an obscure class of minute arthropods with branched antennae and topairs of legs |
Symphyla class Symphyla | small class of minute arthropods, unimportant except for the garden centipede |
Tardigrada class Tardigrada | in some classifications considered a separate phylum: microscopic arachnid-like invertebrates living in water or damp moss having pairs of legs and instead of a mouth a pair of stylets or needlelike piercing organs connected with the pharynx |
Chilopoda class Chilopoda | arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes |
Diplopoda class Diplopoda Myriapoda class Myriapoda | arthropods having the body composed of numerous double somites each with two pairs of legs: millipedes |