| occupation occupancy moving in | the act of occupying or taking possession of a building, occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal |
escalator
moving staircase
moving stairway | a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt |
| moving van | a van used for moving home or office furniture |
| average cost | total cost for all units bought (or produced) divided by the number of units |
| average | an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual, he is about average in height, the snowfall this month is below average |
average
norm | a statistic describing the location of a distribution, it set the norm for American homes |
a movie
film picture moving picture
moving-picture show
motion picture
motion-picture show
picture show
pic
flick | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement, they went to a movie every Saturday night, the film was shot on location |
Dow Jones
Dow-Jones Industrial Average | an indicator of stock market prices, based on the share values ofbluehip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing |
earned run average
ERA | (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness, calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched |
grade point average
GPA | a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university, calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted |
| wave moving ridge | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) |
mover
public mover
moving company
removal firm
removal company | a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another |
| moving expense | the cost of moving your residence from one location to another |
batting average
hitting average | (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance, the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat, Ted Williams once had a batting average above . |
| batting average | (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds, the salesman's batting average was out of |
| fielding average | (baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance, the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances |
| average | (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities |
get cracking
bestir oneself
get going
get moving
get weaving
get started
get rolling | start to be active, Get cracking, please! |
average
average out | compute the average of |
| average | achieve or reach on average, He averaged a C |
average
average out | amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain, The number of hours I work per work averages out to |
self-acting
self-activating
self-moving
self-regulating | designed to activate or move or regulate itself, a self-activating sprinkler system |
| outward-moving | moving or directed away from center, especially when spinning or traveling in a curve |
| inward-moving | moving or directed toward the center or axis, especially when spinning or traveling in a curve |
average
ordinary | lacking special distinction, rank, or status, commonly encountered, average people, the ordinary (or common) man in the street |
| slow-moving | moving slowly, slow-moving cars |
average
intermediate
medium | around the middle of a scale of evaluation, an orange of average size, intermediate capacity, medium bombers |
| moving | arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion, she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter- N. Hawthorne |
| moving | in motion, a constantly moving crowd, the moving parts of the machine |
| moving | used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion, Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or `the movies' |
| average mean(a) | approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value, the average income in New England is below that of the nation, of average height for his age, the mean annual rainfall |
median(a)
average | relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values), the median value of , , and i, the median income for the year was $, |
modal(a)
average | relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution, the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak i |
average
fair
mediocre
middling | lacking exceptional quality or ability, a novel of average merit, only a fair performance of the sonata, in fair health, the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average, the performance was middling at best |
advancing
forward
forward-moving | moving forward |
on the average
on average | typically, on average he watches three movies a week |