movement

«movement» in Mova's school dictionary: changing position or place; moving — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a movement, movements; movement, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Movement is changing position or place; moving. tree →

2) A movement is one action of moving, like a movement of the hand. tree →

3) A movement is a group of people working together to change something, like a peace movement. tree →

4) A movement is one main part of a long piece of music. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and PE, movement is made by muscles pulling on bones at joints; all living things move in some way (one of the life processes). Plants show movement too, turning towards light. In history and social studies, movements like the civil rights movement changed laws. In safety, keep still if an animal is near; sudden movements can scare it. Phrases: freedom of movement, a sudden movement, the movement of the Earth, the environmental movement.

examples

• I saw a movement in the bushes. tree →
• Muscles and bones work together for movement. tree →
• Movement is one of the signs of life. tree →
• Don't make any sudden movements near the bees. tree →
• The civil rights movement fought for fair laws. tree →
• Dance is movement to music. tree →
• The first movement of the symphony was fast. tree →
• He made a movement towards her. tree →

note

Countable (a movement, many movements) or uncountable (movement in general). Verb: move. Spelling: move + ment, keep the e.

In the corpora

• Sports teams already use AI to analyse games and players' movements; too much analysing can take the fun out of a game.
• A flipbook shows how animation works: still pictures shown quickly look like movement.
• Even with computers, animators still decide every movement; the computer does not make the art by itself.
• Research shows sleep helps the brain store new movement skills, so practice plus rest works better than practising tired for hours.
• Fine hairs on spiders' legs sense the tiniest air movements and tell the spider which way they come from.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «movement» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.