Engelsk navneord: movement | |||
1. | movement (om handling) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise. Movement is a sign of life. An impatient move of his hand. Gastrointestinal motility. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | motility, motion, move | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | change | ||
Mere specifikke termer | abduction, adduction, agitation, body English, circumduction, closing, dart, disturbance, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy, eversion, everting, eye movement, fetal movement, flicker, flit, flutter, foetal movement, gesture, headshake, headshaking, inclination, inclining, inversion, inversion, jerk, jerking, jolt, kick, kicking, kneel, kneeling, lurch, opening, pitch, pitching, posing, prostration, quiver, quivering, reach, reaching, reciprocation, reclining, retraction, retroflection, retroflexion, rotary motion, rotation, saccade, shutting, sitting, sitting, snap, span, squat, squatting, squirm, standing, straddle, stretch, stroke, sweep, toss, upending, vibration, wave, waver, wiggle, wriggle | ||
2. | movement (om handling) the act of changing location from one place to another | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | 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. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | motion, move | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | change | ||
Mere specifikke termer | advance, advancement, approach, approaching, ascending, ascension, ascent, chase, coast, coming, crawl, descent, displacement, flow, following, forward motion, glide, haste, hurry, hurrying, locomotion, lunge, lurch, maneuver, manoeuvre, migration, onward motion, play, procession, progress, progression, pursual, pursuit, return, rise, rush, rushing, shift, shifting, slide, slippage, speed, speeding, stream, swing, swinging, translation, travel, travel, traveling, travelling, vacillation | ||
3. | movement (om begivenhed) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | motion | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | ||
Mere specifikke termer | approach, approaching, backlash, bend, bending, Brownian motion, Brownian movement, cam stroke, change of location, commotion, crustal movement, deflection, deflexion, heave, jitter, kick, moving ridge, passage, passing, pedesis, periodic motion, periodic movement, rebound, recoil, recoil, repercussion, seek, squeeze, stroke, tectonic movement, throw, travel, turn, turning, twist, undulation, undulation, wave, wave, whirl, wobble, wrench, wring | ||
4. | movement (om gruppe) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He was a charter member of the movement. Politicians have to respect a mass movement. He led the national liberation front. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | front, social movement | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | social group | ||
Mere specifikke termer | art movement, artistic movement, Boy Scouts, Civil Rights movement, common front, cultural movement, ecumenism, falun gong, Fighting French, Free French, oecumenism, political movement, reform movement, religious movement, Zionism, Zionist movement | ||
5. | movement (om kommunikation) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The second movement is slow and melodic. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music | ||
Mere specifikke termer | intermezzo, scherzo | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede termer | sonata | ||
6. | movement (om handling) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | 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. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | venture | ||
Mere specifikke termer | ad blitz, ad campaign, advertising campaign, anti-war movement, campaigning, candidacy, candidature, charm campaign, consumerism, electioneering, feminism, feminist movement, fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort, gay lib, gay liberation movement, lost cause, political campaign, reform, war, women's lib, women's liberation movement, youth crusade, youth movement | ||
7. | movement (om fænomen) an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The cinema relies on apparent motion. The succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | apparent motion, apparent movement, motion | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | optical illusion | ||
8. | movement (om proces) a euphemism for defecation | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He had a bowel movement. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | bm, bowel movement | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | defecation, laxation, shitting | ||
Overordnet anvendelse | euphemism | ||
9. | movement (om erkendelse) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book. A broad movement of the electorate to the right. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | drift, trend | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | disposition, inclination, tendency | ||
Mere specifikke termer | evolutionary trend, gravitation | ||
10. | movement (om genstand) the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | It was an expensive watch with a diamond movement. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | action, action mechanism | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede termer | clock, ticker, watch | ||
11. | movement (om handling) the act of changing the location of something | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The movement of cargo onto the vessel. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | change | ||
Mere specifikke termer | conveyance, deracination, displacement, insertion, introduction, intromission, letting down, lowering, transfer, transferral, transplant, transplantation, transplanting, transport, transportation, troop movement | ||