dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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Sounds | muw'v |
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Rhymes | approve, behoove, countermove, and 7 more rhymes in uwv at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The act of deciding to do something. |
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Examples | "he didn't make a move to help"; "his first move was to hire a lawyer" |
Narrower | demarche; maneuver, manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre |
Broader | decision, determination, conclusion |
Verbs | move; move |
Meaning | The act of changing your residence or place of business. |
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Examples | "they say that three moves equal one fire" |
Synonyms | relocation |
Narrower | flit |
Broader | change |
Verbs | move |
Meaning | A change of position that does not entail a change of location. |
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Examples | "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand" |
Synonyms | motion, movement, motility |
Narrower | abduction; adduction; agitation; body English; circumduction; disturbance; fetal movement, foetal movement; flit, dart; gesture; headshake, headshaking; inclination, inclining; inversion, eversion, everting; inversion, upending; jerk, jerking, jolt; kick, kicking; kneel, kneeling; lurch, pitch, pitching; nystagmus; opening; prostration; reach, reaching, stretch; reciprocation; reclining; retraction; retroflection, retroflexion; rotation, rotary motion; shutting, closing; sitting; sitting, posing; snap; squat, squatting; sweep; toss; vibration, quiver, quivering; wave; waver, flutter, flicker; standing; straddle, span; stroke; wiggle, wriggle, squirm; eurythmy, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurhythmics |
Broader | change |
Verbs | move |
Meaning | The act of changing location from one place to another. |
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Examples | "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" |
Synonyms | motion, movement |
Narrower | approach, approaching, coming; progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion; locomotion, travel; lurch, lunge; travel, traveling, travelling; pursuit, chase, following; rise, ascent, ascension, ascending; descent; swing, swinging, vacillation; return; slide, glide, coast; slippage; flow, stream; crawl; speed, speeding, hurrying; translation, displacement; shift, shifting; haste, hurry, rush, rushing; maneuver, manoeuvre, play; migration |
Broader | change |
Verbs | move; move |
Meaning | (game) a player's turn to move a piece or take some other permitted action. |
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Category | game |
Narrower | chess move |
Broader | turn, play |
Verbs | move |
Meaning | Change location. Move, travel, or proceed. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | The cars move down the avenue |
Examples | "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" |
Synonyms | travel, go, locomote |
Caused by | travel, trip, jaunt |
Entailed by | steer; reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain; miss |
Narrower | go around, spread, circulate; carry; ease; whish; float; swap; seek; whine; fly; ride; come; ghost; betake oneself; pass over, overfly; travel; wend; do; raft; get around, get about; repair, resort; cruise; travel, journey; come, come up; round; trundle; push; travel purposefully; swing; roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond; walk, take the air; weave, wind, thread, meander, wander; forge, spurt, spirt; crawl, creep; scramble; slither, slide; wheel, roll; glide; bounce, jounce; breeze; float, drift, be adrift, blow; play; float, swim; walk; turn, move around; circle; slice into, slice through; stray, err, drift; run; step; drive, motor; automobile; ski; fly, wing; steam; taxi; ferry; ride, sit; prance; swim; rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise; ascend, go up; descend, fall, go down, come down; fall; zigzag, crank; follow, travel along; advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on; withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back; retrograde; proceed, go forward, continue; back; pan; follow; precede, lead; pursue, follow; return, go back, get back, come back; derail, jump; flock; accompany; billow; circulate; circle, circulate; angle; pass, go through, go across; travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass; travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip; speed; zoom; drive; rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along; trail, shack; shuttle; hiss, whoosh; whisk; career; circuit; lance; outflank, go around; propagate; draw; transfer, change; swash; pace; step, tread; step; hurtle; retreat; whistle; island hop; plow, plough; lurch; sift; fall; drag; run; bang; precess; travel, move around; ride; snowshoe; beetle |
Contrary | stay in place |
Similar to | move, displace |
See also | move on; move back; move out |
Nouns | motion, movement, move; movement; mover |
Meaning | Cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Model | They move the car down the avenue |
Examples | "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
Synonyms | displace |
Cause to | move |
Entailed by | kick; bear; transfer |
Narrower | mobilize, mobilise, circulate; relocate; dislocate, luxate, splay, slip; translate; station, post, base, send, place; agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up; transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise; funnel; brandish, flourish, wave; pull, draw, force; transport, carry; tug; disarrange; expel, eject, chuck out, exclude, throw out, kick out, turf out, boot out, turn out; put, set, place, pose, position, lay; engage, mesh, lock, operate; propel, impel; launch, set in motion; wind, wrap, roll, twine; unwind, wind off, unroll; wedge, squeeze, force; work; spill, shed, disgorge; spill, slop, splatter; unseat; separate, disunite, divide, part; uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out; press down, depress; lift; flick, ruffle, riffle; work; take back; center, centre; pump; scan; jar, shake up, bump around; dandle; roll, revolve; push, force; rock, sway; fluctuate; pulse; shift, dislodge, reposition; glide; stir; play; overturn, tip over, turn over, upset, knock over, bowl over, tump over; transport, send, ship; send, direct; transport; saltate; lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down; lift, raise; raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up; drop; sink; advance, bring forward; chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off; transfer, shift; displace, force out; herd, crowd; circulate; circulate, pass around, pass on, distribute; rout out, drive out, force out, rouse; drive; race, rush; whoosh; pour; exteriorize, bring outside; upstage; swing; turn, turn over; turn; turn; slide; run; whistle; beat, flap; singsong; hustle; wash; rake; blow; drag; pull; lateralize; translate; hit, strike; change hands; transfer; expel, throw out, kick out |
Similar to | travel, go, move, locomote |
Nouns | movement, move; mover; movement; mover |
Meaning | Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
Caused by | mobilize, mobilise, circulate; move, displace; take out, move out, remove |
Entailed by | exercise, work out; bear; transplant, graft; push, force |
Narrower | move involuntarily, move reflexively; quicken; stretch, stretch out; snap, click, flick; flex, bend; spread, propagate; reach, reach out; putter, potter, potter around, putter around; dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe; drop back; hit the dirt, hit the deck; gravitate; fly; move over, give way, give, ease up, yield; cut to; lurch, pitch, shift; jolt, jar; duck; bob; wallow, welter; writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist; wobble, coggle; sidle, sashay; sidle; sweep, sail; brush, sweep; wamble, waggle; chop; reciprocate; move back and forth; nod; pulsate, beat, quiver; beat, pound, thump; teeter, seesaw, totter; buck, jerk, hitch; cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch; careen, wobble, shift, tilt; churn, boil, moil, roil; steal, slip; shake, agitate; vibrate; jerk, twitch; flip, twitch; snap, click; stir, shift, budge, agitate; arouse, stir; dance; stumble, trip; falter, waver; roll, undulate, flap, wave; mill, mill about, mill around; turn; startle, jump, start; mope, mope around; hop on, mount, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on, bestride; climb; kick; jump, leap, bound, spring; bolt; get down; assume, take, strike, take up; seesaw; displace; exit, go out, get out, leave; separate, part, split; diverge; list, lean; whirl, tumble, whirl around; close, come together; bustle, bustle about, hustle; fidget; linger, dawdle; flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail; lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust; swoop; flow, flux; run, flow, feed, course; flurry; streak; heave; crash; thunder; snap; beat, flap; fling; hop; turn; dodge; dodge; throw; make way; dance; grab; cut; close |
Contrary | stand still |
See also | move over |
Nouns | motion, movement, move |
Meaning | Change residence, affiliation, or place of employment. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | Sam and Sue move |
Examples | "We moved from Idaho to Nebraska"; "The basketball player moved from one team to another" |
Caused by | evacuate |
Entailed by | settle, locate |
Narrower | relocate; move in; move out; evacuate; migrate, transmigrate; migrate |
Contrary | stay, stick, stick around, stay put |
Nouns | movement; move; mover |
Meaning | Follow a procedure or take a course. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | go, proceed |
Narrower | work; venture, embark; steamroller, steamroll |
Broader | act, move |
Meaning | Be in a state of action. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | be active |
Narrower | bestir, rouse |
Contrary | rest |
Nouns | motion; mover; move |
Meaning | Go or proceed from one point to another. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "the debate moved from family values to the economy" |
Narrower | step; scroll; sink, pass, lapse |
Broader | change, alter, vary |
Meaning | Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action). |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "We must move quickly" |
Synonyms | act |
Caused by | incite, instigate, set off, stir up; direct; coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force; compel, oblige, obligate |
Narrower | alternate, take turns; finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish; rush, hasten, hurry, look sharp, festinate; interrupt, disturb; react, respond; go ahead, plow ahead; attack, aggress; force; create; come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore, come out; reward, repay, pay back; satisfice, staisfise; maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre; dispatch; evade; race; use; play it by ear; play; deal; partner; exert; egotrip; reciprocate; go, proceed, move; come close; perform; make bold, dare, presume; prosecute, engage, pursue; act on; interact; react, oppose; take time by the forelock; coact; volunteer, offer; get around to; dally, toy, play, flirt; set about, go about, approach; participate, take part; misbehave, misconduct, misdemean; condescend, stoop, lower oneself; behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry; behave, comport; try, seek, attempt, essay, assay; woo, court, romance, solicit; court; dare; effect; antagonize, antagonise, counteract; anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter; prosecute; perpetrate, commit, pull; rampage; cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage; condescend, deign, descend; condescend; take care; lord it over, queen it over, put on airs, act superior; stampede; make a point, make sure; repeat, take over; surprise; sneak; play; take; guard; begin, start; go off half-cocked, go off at half-cock; wait, hold off, hold back; continue, go on, proceed, go along, keep; do well, had best; continue; continue, persist in |
Contrary | refrain, forbear |
Nouns | move |
Meaning | Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Model | The bad news will move him; The good news will move her; The performance is likely to move Sue |
Synonyms | affect, impress, strike |
Cause to | feel, experience |
Narrower | infect; surprise; impress, ingrain, instill; awaken; engrave; strike dumb; zap; jar; hit home, strike home, strike a chord, strike a note; smite; cloud; pierce; impress; sweep away, sweep off; disturb, upset, trouble; touch, stir; move; sadden |
Similar to | motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite; hit, strike, come to |
Meaning | Give an incentive for action. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
Model | They move him to write the letter |
Examples | "This moved me to sacrifice my career" |
Synonyms | motivate, actuate, propel, prompt, incite |
Broader | cause, do, make |
Similar to | affect, impress, move, strike; move |
Meaning | Arouse sympathy or compassion in. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "Her fate moved us all" |
Broader | affect, impress, move, strike |
Similar to | motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite |
Meaning | Dispose of by selling. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "The chairman of the company told the salesmen to move the computers" |
Broader | sell |
Meaning | Progress by being changed. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | go, run |
Broader | change |
Meaning | Live one's life in a specified environment. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "she moves in certain circles only" |
Broader | live |
Meaning | Have a turn. Make one's move in a game. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Model | Sam and Sue move |
Synonyms | go |
Entails | play |
Entailed by | check |
Narrower | bluff, bluff out; stalemate; castle; serve; open; draw, cast; trump, ruff; manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate; check |
Similar to | move, make a motion |
Nouns | move |
Meaning | Propose formally. In a debate or parliamentary meeting. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s on something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE |
Synonyms | make a motion |
Broader | propose, suggest, advise |
Similar to | move, go |
Nouns | mover |