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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. Related Definitions:
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Motion Quotations
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. Samuel Johnson I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. William Shakespeare |
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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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