MOVEMENTS

A change of position that does not entail a change of location

Example: "The reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"

The act of changing location from one place to another

Example: "Police controlled the motion of the crowd"

A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

Example: "He was a charter member of the movement"

A major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata

Example: "The second movement is slow and melodic"

A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

Example: "He supported populist campaigns"

An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object

Example: "The cinema relies on apparent motion"

A euphemism for defecation

Example: "He had a bowel movement"

A general tendency to change (as of opinion)

Example: "Not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"

The driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)

Example: "It was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"

The act of changing the location of something

Example: "The movement of cargo onto the vessel"