movement : Idioms & Phrases

• movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

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• noun a campaign against entering or continuing a war
  

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• noun an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
  motion; movement; apparent motion.
  
  • the cinema relies on apparent motion
  • the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement

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• noun a group of artists who agree on general principles
  art movement.
  

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• noun a group of artists who agree on general principles
  art movement.
  

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• (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.

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• noun a former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich killed 11 Israeli athletes
  

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• noun a euphemism for defecation
  bm; movement.
  
  • he had a bowel movement

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• noun the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid
  pedesis; Brownian motion.
  

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• the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water or other fluids.

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• noun movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
  

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• one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a discrete movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another.

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• noun movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust
  crustal movement.
  

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• noun a group of people working together to advance certain cultural goals
  

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• . See Concrete movement of the voice, under Concrete, a.

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• noun a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression
  East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
  

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• noun a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression
  East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
  

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• noun a movement aimed to promote understanding and cooperation among Christian churches; aimed ultimately at universal Christian unity
  

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• noun the movement of the eyes
  

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• (Med.), an elevation of the body temperature; a fever.

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• noun the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc
  kinaesthesia; kinesthesia.
  

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• noun the movement aimed at equal rights for women
  feminist movement; feminism; women's lib.
  

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• noun motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the 16th week of pregnancy)
  fetal movement.
  

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• a change of march by an army, or portion of one, in order to turn one or both wings of the enemy, or to take up a new position.

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• noun motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the 16th week of pregnancy)
  fetal movement.
  

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• noun the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression
  gay lib.
  

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• (Physiol.), irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them.

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• noun a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing
  Hamas.
  

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• noun an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
  labor movement; labor.
  

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• noun a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
  Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces; Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement.
  

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• noun a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
  Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces; Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement.
  

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• noun a large missionary Hasidic movement known for their hospitality, technological expertise, optimism and emphasis on religious study
  Lubavitch; Chabad; Chabad-Lubavitch.
  

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• . (Med.) See Kinesiatrics.

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• noun an organization of Muslims in India who killed Hindus in September 2002; believed to have ties with Muslim terrorists in Pakistan
  Tareekh e Kasas.
  

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• noun an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan
  Al Faran; Harkat ul-Mujahedeen; HUA; HUM; Harkat-ul-Mujahidin; Harkat ul-Ansar.
  

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• an evacuation or stool; a passage or discharge.

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• noun a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep time
  NREM sleep; nonrapid eye movement; orthodox sleep; NREM.
  

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• noun a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep time
  NREM sleep; nonrapid eye movement; orthodox sleep; NREM.
  

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• noun 19th-century movement in the Church of England opposing liberal tendencies
  

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• . See Tractarianism.

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• (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles which ordinarily move the part.

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• noun motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same
  periodic motion.
  

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• noun a group of people working together to achieve a political goal
  

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• noun a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
  rapid eye movement; REM; paradoxical sleep; REM sleep.
  

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• noun a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
  rapid eye movement; REM; paradoxical sleep; REM sleep.
  

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• noun a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms
  

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• noun a movement intended to bring about religious reforms
  

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• noun a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
  Romanticism.
  
  • Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality

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• noun a militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels; seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world
  Salafism.
  

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• noun the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body
  kinaesthesia; kinesthesis; kinaesthesis; muscle sense; kinesthesia; kinesthetics.
  

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• noun a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
  front; movement.
  
  • he was a charter member of the movement
  • politicians have to respect a mass movement
  • he led the national liberation front

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• noun movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust
  crustal movement.
  

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• noun an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
  labor movement; labor.
  

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• noun movement of military units to a new location
  

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• noun a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru; was formed in 1983 to overthrow the Peruvian government and replace it with a Marxist regime; has connections with the ELN in Bolivia
  Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru; MRTA.
  

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• noun the movement aimed at equal rights for women
  feminist movement; feminism; women's lib.
  

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• noun a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
  Tigers; LTTE; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; World Tamil Association; Tamil Tigers.
  
  • the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war

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• noun political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people
  youth crusade.
  

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• noun a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine
  Zionism.
  

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