Definition of Motion

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Motion

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.

Power of, or capacity for, motion.

Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.

Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.

Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.

An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.

Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.

A puppet show or puppet.

To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.

To make proposal; to offer plans.

To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.

To propose; to move.

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Motion Quotations

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran

Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
Walt Disney

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare

Sex is emotion in motion.
Mae West

Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Albert Schweitzer

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
Robert Collier

Motion Translations

motion in Dutch is motie, resolutie
motion in German is Bewegung, Antrag {m}
motion in Italian is movimento
motion in Portuguese is movimento
motion in Spanish is movimiento

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