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Definition of Movement

Movement

  1. The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement.
  2. Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
  3. Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement.
  4. The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece.
  5. One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony.
  6. A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch.

Movement Quotations

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
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Movement Translations

movement in Afrikaans is beweging
movement in Dutch is beweging
movement in French is mouvement
movement in German is Bewegung
movement in Italian is movimento
movement in Latin is ingressus
movement in Portuguese is movimento
movement in Spanish is movimiento

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