Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move from one place to another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To move from one place to another.
- In biology, to effect a change of place: as, a medusa which locomotes toward the light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To change location; move, travel, or proceed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
move ortravel (from onelocation to another).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Uncertain how to identity that particular subset, I parse the group as a mix of money -- both old (Southampton's Meadow Club); and new (Bridgehampton's upstart so there Atlantic Golf Club) -- art world players; the culturati; and women who wear sheaths so tight they locomote with a little shuffle.
Erica Abeel: Getting Voluptuous With Robert Wilson at His Hamptons Gala Erica Abeel 2011
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Uncertain how to identity that particular subset, I parse the group as a mix of money -- both old (Southampton's Meadow Club); and new (Bridgehampton's upstart so there Atlantic Golf Club) -- art world players; the culturati; and women who wear sheaths so tight they locomote with a little shuffle.
Erica Abeel: Getting Voluptuous With Robert Wilson at His Hamptons Gala Erica Abeel 2011
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Uncertain how to identity that particular subset, I parse the group as a mix of money -- both old (Southampton's Meadow Club); and new (Bridgehampton's upstart so there Atlantic Golf Club) -- art world players; the culturati; and women who wear sheaths so tight they locomote with a little shuffle.
Erica Abeel: Getting Voluptuous With Robert Wilson at His Hamptons Gala Erica Abeel 2011
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Uncertain how to identity that particular subset, I parse the group as a mix of money -- both old (Southampton's Meadow Club); and new (Bridgehampton's upstart so there Atlantic Golf Club) -- art world players; the culturati; and women who wear sheaths so tight they locomote with a little shuffle.
Erica Abeel: Getting Voluptuous With Robert Wilson at His Hamptons Gala Erica Abeel 2011
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But then, when the going gets difficult, as mother says, those coveting advancement must locomote.
Alteration Steve Almond 2011
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Uncertain how to identity that particular subset, I parse the group as a mix of money -- both old (Southampton's Meadow Club); and new (Bridgehampton's upstart so there Atlantic Golf Club) -- art world players; the culturati; and women who wear sheaths so tight they locomote with a little shuffle.
Erica Abeel: Getting Voluptuous With Robert Wilson at His Hamptons Gala Erica Abeel 2011
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After billions of years of evolution, it was inevitable life would acquire the ability to locomote, to hunt and see, to protect itself from competitors.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Have Aliens Left the Universe? Theory Predicts We'll Follow 2010
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After billions of years of evolution, it was inevitable life would acquire the ability to locomote, to hunt and see, to protect itself from competitors.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Have Aliens Left the Universe? Theory Predicts We'll Follow 2010
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By walking upright over four million years ago, the earliest hominids were already on an evolutionary track separate from even chimps and gorillas, our nearest genetic cousins, who locomote with a different kind of gait known as knuckle-walking.
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Hod Lipson of Cornell just showed a robot that learns how to locomote by generating and selecting competing "self models."
Boing Boing 2007
chained_bear commented on the word locomote
Thanks for using this verb on my profile page, mollusque. OED sez:
intr. To move about from place to place. (Originally slang; subsequently adopted or re-invented in biological use.)
P.S. I was able to impress a vice president with the knowledge that this is a legitimate verb. :) If I get a raise (ever), I'll send you some.
June 13, 2009
qms commented on the word locomote
The egg can be coy and just float;
Her suitor though must locomote.
An ambitious sperm
Must earnestly squirm
If ever he'll be a zygote.
February 19, 2017