movement

n

1. motion, action, activity, stir, move; acts, actions, proceedings, doings, goings on, comings and goings.

2. progress, progression, advance, advancement, forward motion or movement; flow, flux, passage, career.

3. gesture, gesticulation, gest, Theat. stage business; sign, signal, broad hint, nod, nudge, wink, Inf. high sign; pantomime, charade, dumb show; body language, Inf. body English.

4. course, main course, current, main current, stream, mainstream; tone, set, bearing, swing, line, direction; tendency, drift, general tendency or drift, course of events, way things go, way the wind blows; trend, trend of the times; spirit of the age, Ger. Zeitgeist.

5. drive, crusade, fund-raiser, undertaking; party, faction, wing, group; coalition, front, political front, popular or people's front, grass-roots movement.

6. bowel movement, Inf.BM, defecation, evacuation, voidance, Med., Physiol. dejection; excrement, excreta, feces, ordure, stool.

7. works, workings, working parts, mechanism, machinery; wheels, wheelworks, wheels within wheels, gears; innards, inner workings, what makes [s.t.] tick.

8.Music. a. division, section, part; passage, strain, phrase, musical phrase.b. rhythm, beat, cadence, meter, measure, lilt, swing; time, tempo. movie, U.S.n

1. film, motion picture, moving picture. See motionpicture.

2. motion picture theater, theater, Brit. theatre, Inf. movie house, movie palace, cine, showcase theater, (formerly) nickelodeon.

3. moviesa. motion picture industry, Hollywood, silver screen.b. pictures, Inf. pix, films.