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 |
ecoterrorism ecological terrorism eco-warfare ecological warfare | violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists |
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 |
movement | the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock), it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Brownian movement Brownian motion pedesis | the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid |
bowel movement movement bm | a euphemism for defecation, he had a bowel movement |
succession ecological succession | (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established |
niche ecological niche | (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species) |
orthodox sleep nonrapid eye movement sleep NREM sleep nonrapid eye movement NREM | a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur, accounts for about % of normal sleep time |
paradoxical sleep rapid eye movement sleep REM sleep rapid eye movement REM | a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs, a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep |
ecological ecologic bionomical bionomic | of or relating to the science of ecology, ecological research |