| 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 |
| consumer goods | goods (as food or clothing) intended for direct use or consumption |
drygoods
soft goods | textiles or clothing and related merchandise |
durables
durable goods
consumer durables | consumer goods that are not destroyed by use |
| fancy goods | goods that are chiefly ornamental |
| movement | the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock), it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement |
| packaged goods | groceries that are packaged for sale |
| sporting goods | sports equipment sold as a commodity |
white goods
household linen | drygoods for household use that are typically made of white cloth |
| white goods | large electrical home appliances (refrigerators or washing machines etc.) that are typically finished in white enamel |
yard goods
piece goods | merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard |
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 |
| bill of goods | a consignment of merchandise |
| bill of goods | communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable, they tried to sell me a bill of goods about a secondhand car |
| 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 |
canned food
canned foods
canned goods
tinned goods | food preserved by canning |
| baked goods | foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven |
produce
green goods
green groceries
garden truck | fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market |
| 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 |