movement
英 ['mu?vm(?)nt]
美['muvm?nt]
- n. 運(yùn)動(dòng)；活動(dòng)；運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)；樂(lè)章
英英釋意
- 1. a change of position that does not entail a change of location;
- "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"
- "movement is a sign of life"
- "an impatient move of his hand"
- "gastrointestinal motility"
- 2. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- 3. the act of changing location from one place to another;
- "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"
- 4. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals;
- "he was a charter member of the movement"
- "politicians have to respect a mass movement"
- "he led the national liberation front"
- 5. a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata;
- "the second movement is slow and melodic"
- 6. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end;
- "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"
- 7. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object;
- "the cinema relies on apparent motion"
- "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
- 8. a euphemism for defecation;
- "he had a bowel movement"
- 9. a general tendency to change (as of opinion);
- "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"
- "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
- 10. the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock);
- "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
- 11. the act of changing the location of something;
- "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"