Engelsk substantiv: 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | motility, motion, move | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | change | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | motion, move | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | change | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 begivenhet) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | motion | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | front, social movement | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | social group | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 kommunikasjon) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The second movement is slow and melodic. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | intermezzo, scherzo | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede uttrykkene | 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | venture | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 fenomen) 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | apparent motion, apparent movement, motion | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | optical illusion | ||
8. | movement (om prosess) a euphemism for defecation | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He had a bowel movement. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | bm, bowel movement | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | defecation, laxation, shitting | ||
Overordnet anvendelse | euphemism | ||
9. | movement (om erkjendelse) 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | drift, trend | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | disposition, inclination, tendency | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | evolutionary trend, gravitation | ||
10. | movement (om gjenstand) 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 spesifikke uttrykk | action, action mechanism | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede uttrykkene | 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 spesifikke uttrykk | change | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | conveyance, deracination, displacement, insertion, introduction, intromission, letting down, lowering, transfer, transferral, transplant, transplantation, transplanting, transport, transportation, troop movement | ||