Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Changing or capable of changing position.
- adjective Relating to or involved in a transfer of furnishings from one location to another.
- adjective Causing or producing motion.
- adjective Involving a motor vehicle in motion.
- adjective Arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Movement; motion; impulse.
- Causing to move or act; impelling; instigating; persuading; influencing: as, the moving cause of a dispute.
- Exciting the feelings, especially the tender feelings; touching; pathetic; affecting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of changing one's dwelling place or place of business.
- noun a day when one moves; esp., a day when a large number of tenants change their dwelling place.
- adjective Changing place or posture; causing motion or action.
- adjective Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic.
- adjective (Mech.) a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body.
- adjective (Bot.) a leguminous plant (
Desmodium gyrans ); -- so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That moves or move.
- adjective That causes someone to feel emotion.
- verb Present participle of
move . - noun uncountable The
relocation of goods - noun countable A causing of a movement
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in motion
- adjective arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion
- adjective used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion
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Examples
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And I saw all kinds of incomprehensible things moving, yes, _moving_, in those eyes of his.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews
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And I saw all kinds of incomprehensible things moving, yes, _moving_, in those eyes of his.
Lost Face Jack London 1896
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Its eye opening to see Takashi so happy in moving from a large Las Vegas Restaurant at The Wynn to a neighborhood restaurant where the dishwasher is in a basement that has a 5 foot ceiling.
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And she also did some "inexpensive Web-based advertising" which also got the word moving among readers.
Secret of Self-Publishing: Success Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg 2011
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Children of Violence is the collective name for the five books about Martha Quest, Lessing's alter ego, who, in moving from a colonial existence to the British class hierarchy, is swept away by her dreams and primary instincts.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Presentation Speech 2007
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DEADBEATS, the title moving online, features a gang of passionate vampires and the mortals who try to destroy them.
Claypool to go Online | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Now he really did bring new definition to the term moving Saturday yesterday.
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This means the game can only be legally sold to adults and might lead to the title moving less copies than expected in the nation that made the initial StarCraft a national sport, which spawned the PC bang phenomenon and the creation of numerous e-sports leagues that in turn created generations of star players.
Softpedia News - Global Andrei Dumitrescu 2010
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Someone recently pointed out that the term moving at a
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rebecca Solnit 2010
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This means the game can only be legally sold to adults and might lead to the title moving less copies than expected in the nation that made the initial StarCraft a national sport, which spawned the PC bang phenomenon and the creation of numerous e-sports leagues that in turn created generations of star players.
Softpedia News - Global Andrei Dumitrescu 2010
bilby commented on the word moving
Gone!
April 29, 2009