motion
part of speech
noun (motion, motions); verb (motion, motions, motioned, motioning)
meaning for a pupil
1) Movement; the act of moving. tree →
2) A single movement, especially of the hand or body. tree →
3) (verb) To give someone a sign with your hand or head. tree →
4) A formal suggestion that a group votes on at a meeting or debate. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says the heavens' motion is ordered by God. The "exciting intelligence" is the path that stirs all created beings into movement. In the primary lessons: In science, motion is studied with forces: speed, pushes, pulls, and things staying still unless a force acts on them. In everyday life, «motion sickness» is feeling sick in a car, boat or plane. Phrases: «in motion», «set in motion», «slow motion», «go through the motions», «motion sensor».
examples
- Because it regulates the motions of the Sun and Moon in their proper order, each in an orbit convenient for it. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
- The Twenty-seventh Path is the Exciting Intelligence, and it is so called bemuse by it is created the Intellect of all created beings under the highest heaven, and the excitement or motion of them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
- The train was already in motion. tree →
- Do not stand up while the bus is in motion. tree →
- We watched the goal again in slow motion. tree →
- She motioned for us to sit down. tree →
- A force can change an object's motion. tree →
- The light came on because of a motion sensor. tree →
- Some people get motion sickness on boats. tree →
- He watched every motion of the child. tree →
note
Mostly uncountable (movement); countable for single movements. «Go through the motions» means do something without really caring. A school debate may start with «This house believes…», which is the motion.
In the corpora
- Tense music, close-ups and slow motion make ordinary mistakes feel dangerous; turn the sound down and the drama shrinks.
- «The poetry of motion!
- The poetry of motion!
- The motion is the topic of a debate, such as "Homework should be banned".
- One side argues for the motion and the other side argues against it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «motion» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.