| 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 |
| wire-haired fox terrier | a fox terrier with wiry hair |
wirehair
wirehaired terrier
wire-haired terrier | a terrier with wiry hair |
| griffon wire-haired pointing griffon | breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat, originated in Holland but largely developed in France |
| baling wire | wire used to make bales |
barbed wire
barbwire | strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage |
| chicken wire | a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh, used to build fences |
cross hair
cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
guy
guy cable
guy wire
guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
| high wire | a tightrope very high above the ground |
| movement | the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock), it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement |
| piano wire | thin steel wire of high tensile strength |
telephone wire
telephone line telegraph wire
telegraph line | the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals |
| trip wire | a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over |
| wire | ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc |
| wire conducting wire | a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance |
| wire cloth | fabric woven of metallic wire |
| wire cutter | an edge tool used in cutting wire |
wire gauge
wire gage | gauge for measuring the diameter of wire |
wire matrix printer
wire printer
stylus printer | an impact printer in which each character is represented by a pattern of dots made by wires or styli |
| wire recorder | an early type of magnetic recorder using iron wire |
| wire stripper | a hand tool used by electricians to remove insulation from the cut end of an insulated wire |
kinesthesis
kinaesthesis
kinesthesia kinaesthesia kinesthetics
muscle sense
sense of movement | the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body |
kinesthesia
kinaesthesia
feeling of movement | the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc |
Romanticism
Romantic Movement | a movement in literature and art during the late th and early th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization, Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality |
drift trend
movement | 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 |
Salafism
Salafi movement | a militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels, seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world |
telegram
wire | a message transmitted by telegraph |
| movement | a major selfontained part of a symphony or sonata, the second movement is slow and melodic |
movement
motion | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
crustal movement
tectonic movement | movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust |
periodic motion
periodic movement | motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same |
| trip wire | a small military force that serves as a first line of defense, if they become engaged in hostilities it will trigger the intervention of stronger military forces |
| Black September Movement | a former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the Olympic Games in Munich killed Israeli athletes |
East Turkistan Islamic Movement
East Turkestan Islamic Movement | a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang, declared by China in to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression |
Hamas
Islamic Resistance Movement | a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon, seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel, is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel, pioneered suicide bombing |
Harkat-ul-Mujahidin
HUM
Harkat ul-Ansar
HUA
Harkat ul-Mujahedeen
Al Faran
Movement of Holy Warriors | an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the s, now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan |
Lautaro Youth Movement
Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement
Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces | a violent terrorist group organized in the s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government, leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
LTTE
Tamil Tigers
Tigers
World Tamil Association
World Tamil Movement | a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began inas a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students, currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam, relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel, the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war |
Tareekh e Kasas
Movement for Revenge | an organization of Muslims in India who killed Hindus in September , believed to have ties with Muslim terrorists in Pakistan |