| 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 |
accordance
accordance of rights | the act of granting rights, the accordance to Canada of rights of access |
| movement | the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock), it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement |
| states' rights | the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution |
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 |
| states' rights | a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states |
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 |
| Bill of Rights | a statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution) |
| movement | a major selfontained part of a symphony or sonata, the second movement is slow and melodic |
rights offering
rights issue | an offering of common stock to existing shareholders who hold subscription rights or pre-emptive rights that entitle them to buy newly issued shares at a discount from the price at which they will be offered to the public later, the investment banker who handles a rights offering usually agrees to buy any shares not bought by shareholders |
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 |
| 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 |
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru
MRTA | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru, was formed in to overthrow the Peruvian government and replace it with a Marxist regime, has connections with the ELN in Bolivia |
States' Rights Democratic Party
Dixiecrats | a former political party in the United States, formed in by Democrats from southern states in order to oppose to the candidacy of Harry S Truman |
| Commission on Human Rights | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights |
movement
social movement
front | 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, he led the national liberation front |
artistic movement
art movement | a group of artists who agree on general principles |
| Civil Rights movement | movement in the United States beginning in the s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens |
| cultural movement | a group of people working together to advance certain cultural goals |
| political movement | a group of people working together to achieve a political goal |
labor movement
trade union movement
labor | an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement |
| reform movement | a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms |
| religious movement | a movement intended to bring about religious reforms |
| ecumenical movement | a movement aimed to promote understanding and cooperation among Christian churches, aimed ultimately at universal Christian unity |
Lubavitch
Lubavitch movement
Chabad-Lubavitch
Chabad | a large missionary Hasidic movement known for their hospitality, technological expertise, optimism and emphasis on religious study |
| Oxford movement | thentury movement in the Church of England opposing liberal tendencies |
Zionism
Zionist movement | a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine |
civil rights leader
civil rights worker
civil rights activist | a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups |
apparent motion
motion
apparent movement
movement | 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 |