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Moving

adjective

1.

In motion. "The moving parts of the machine"

2.

Arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion.

3.

Used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion.

Move

verb

(past & past part. moved; pres. part. moving)

1.

Change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically. Synonyms: go, locomote, travel. "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus" , "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect" , "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" , "News travelled fast"

2.

Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense. Synonym: displace. "I'm moving my money to another bank" , "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"

3.

Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.

4.

Change residence, affiliation, or place of employment. "The basketball player moved from one team to another"

5.

Follow a procedure or take a course. Synonyms: go, proceed. "She went through a lot of trouble" , "Go about the world in a certain manner" , "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"

6.

Be in a state of action. Synonym: be active.

7.

Go or proceed from one point to another.

8.

Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action). Synonym: act. "We must move quickly" , "The governor should act on the new energy bill" , "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"

9.

Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon. Synonyms: affect, impress, strike. "This behavior struck me as odd"

10.

Give an incentive for action. Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, prompt, propel.

11.

Arouse sympathy or compassion in.

12.

Dispose of by selling.

13.

Progress by being changed. Synonyms: go, run. "Run through your presentation before the meeting"

14.

Live one's life in a specified environment.

15.

Have a turn; make one's move in a game. Synonym: go.

16.

Propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting. Synonym: make a motion.

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"Moving" Quotes from Famous Books

... a perfect road of talk; they know already whatever can be said; they have heard the same a hundred times over. They quarrel that preachers do not relieve an old beaten subject with wit and invention, and that now the art is lost of moving men's passions, so common among the ancient orators of Greece and Rome. These and the like objections are frequently in the mouths of men who despise the foolishness of preaching. But let us ...

— Three Sermons, Three Prayer • Jonathan Swift

... when the Emperor Akbar and his successors, aided by their own [sic] intestine wars, had conquered these sovereigns, and again reduced their kingdoms to tributary provinces, almost all these cities and towns became depopulated as the necessary consequence. The public establishments were again moving about with the courts and camps of the emperor and his viceroys; and drawing in their train all those who found employment and subsistence in contributing to their efficiency and enjoyment. It was not, as our ambassador in the simplicity of his heart supposed, the disinclination ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... of intense and brooding heat. Black clouds hung sullenly low in the sky, and a heavy gloom obscured the face of the earth. On each side of the railway the veldt stretched for miles, vivid green, yet strangely desolate to unaccustomed eyes. The moving train seemed the only sign of life in all ...

— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell

... and most important embryonic stages that suffer most from alteration and condensation. The earlier embryonic forms have had to adapt themselves to new circumstances, and so have been modified. The struggle for existence has had just as profound an influence on the freely moving and still immature young forms as on the adult forms. Hence in the embryology of the higher animals, especially, palingenesis is much restricted by cenogenesis; it is to-day, as a rule, only a faded and much altered ...

— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel

... now guided chiefly by the gesticulations of the people in the boat,—that is to say, by the way the old man waved a hand, or looked out, for they had to keep their oars moving with all their might and main to avoid being driven dangerously near the rock. At length Harry, with thankfulness, saw David close to the boat but she seemed to be going from him—then the old man stood up—stretched out his arm, ...

— Adrift in a Boat • W.H.G. Kingston

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