Definition of Movement

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Movement

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.

Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement.

The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece.

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.

A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch.

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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

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
Edward Kennedy

Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.
Glenn Beck

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
Ted Turner

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

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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