[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

movement \move"ment\, n. f. mouvement. see move, and cf.
   moment.
   1. the act of moving in space; change of place or posture;
      motion; as, the movement of an army in marching or
      maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine.
      1913 webster

   2. manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or
      sudden, movement.
      1913 webster

   3. transference, by any means, from one situation to another;
      a change of situation; progress toward a goal;
      advancement; as, after months of fruitless discussion
      there was finally some movement toward an agreement.
      1913 webster +pjc

   4. motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
      1913 webster

   5. mus.
      a the rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a
          piece. "any change of time is a change of movement."
          --busby.
      b one of the several strains or pieces, each complete in
          itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a
          larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a
          symphony.
          1913 webster

   6. mech. a system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a
      definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the
      wheelwork of a watch; as, a seventeen jewel movement.
      1913 webster

   7. a more or less organized effort by many people to achieve
      some goal, especially a social or artistic goal; as, the
      women's liberation movement; the progressive movement in
      architecture.
      pjc

   febrile movement med., an elevation of the body
      temperature; a fever.

   movement cure. med. see kinesiatrics.

   movement of the bowels, an evacuation or stool; a passage
      or discharge.
      1913 webster

   syn: motion.

   usage: movement, motion. motion expresses a general idea
          of not being at rest; movement is oftener used to
          express a definite, regulated motion, esp. a progress.
          1913 webster
see also:
move moment febrile movement movement cure kinesiatrics movement of the bowels 
movement motion 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

movement
     n 1: a change of position that does not entail a change of
          location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed
          his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an
          impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"
          syn: motion, move, motility
     2: a natural event that involves a change in the position or
        location of something syn: motion
     3: the act of changing location from one place to another;
        "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement
        of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him
        directly in my path" syn: motion, move
     4: a group of people with a common ideology who try together to
        achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of
        the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass
        movement"; "he led the national liberation front" syn: social
        movement, front
     5: a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the
        second movement is slow and melodic"
     6: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward
        a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they
        worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready
        for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end
        slavery"; "contributed to the war effort" syn: campaign,
         cause, crusade, drive, effort
     7: an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid
        succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the
        cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of
        flashing lights gave an illusion of movement" syn: apparent
        motion, motion, apparent movement
     8: a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement" syn:
        bowel movement, bm
     9: a general tendency to change as of opinion; "not openly
        liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad
        movement of the electorate to the right" syn: drift, trend
     10: the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism as of a
         watch or clock; "it was an expensive watch with a
         diamond movement"
     11: the act of changing the location of something; "the movement
         of cargo onto the vessel"
see also:
motion move motility social movement front campaign 
cause crusade drive effort apparent motion 
apparent movement bowel movement bm drift trend 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

450 moby thesaurus words for "movement":
   alexandrine, american, art nouveau, ashcan school, bm, barbizon,
   bauhaus, bolognese, british, cobra, dutch, flemish, fontainebleau,
   french, italian, mannerist, milanese, modenese, momentum,
   neapolitan, new york, paduan, parisian, phases, pre-raphaelite,
   raphaelite, reflex, restany, roman, scottish, sienese, spur,
   suprematism, the ten, tuscan, umbrian, venetian, washington,
   zeitgeist, accent, accentuation, act, action, activeness, activism,
   activity, actuation, advance, age group, amotion,
   amphibious operations, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis,
   anagnorisis, anapest, angle, antispast, architectonics,
   architecture, argument, arsis, art schools, atmosphere, bacchius,
   background, band, bass passage, bat, battalion, bearing, beat,
   beck, beckon, bevy, bloody flux, body, body language, bourdon,
   bowel movement, bridge, brigade, buffalo chips, bunch, burden,
   business, ca-ca, cabal, cadence, caesura, campaign, carriage, cast,
   catalexis, catastrophe, catharsis, cause, change, characterization,
   charade, chironomy, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorus, clique,
   clockworks, coalition, coda, cohort, colon, color,
   combined operations, commitment, communist front, commutation,
   company, complement, complication, contingent, continuity,
   contrivance, coprolite, coprolith, corps, coterie, counterpoint,
   course, covey, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, cretic, crew,
   crossing, crowd, crusade, current, dactyl, dactylic hexameter,
   dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, decline, decrease, deed,
   defecation, dejection, delocalization, denouement, design,
   detachment, detail, development, device, diaeresis, diarrhea,
   dimeter, dingleberry, dipody, direction, displacement, division,
   dochmiac, doings, drift, drive, drive train, droppings, dry run,
   dumb show, dung, dynamics, dynamism, dysentery, eclectic, elegiac,
   elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, episode, epitrite,
   evacuation, exposition, fable, faction, faith, falling action,
   feces, feculence, feminine caesura, figure, fleet, flicker, flow,
   fluid operations, flux, folderol, foot, front, gang, gear, gears,
   genre, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, gimmick,
   glacial movement, globe-trotting, going, goings-on,
   grass-roots movement, great cause, ground swell, group, grouping,
   groupment, groups, guano, hand signal, harmonic close, heptameter,
   heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic,
   iambic pentameter, ictus, in-group, incident, increase, innards,
   interest, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, ionic, issue,
   jakes, jingle, journeying, junta, kinematics, kinesics,
   kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lientery, lifework,
   lilt, line, lines, local color, locomotion, logistics,
   loose bowels, machinery, main current, mainstream, maneuver,
   maneuvers, manure, masculine caesura, mass movement, measure,
   mechanism, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group,
   metrical unit, metrics, metron, migration, militancy,
   military operations, minor operations, mission, mob, mobilization,
   molossus, mood, mora, motif, motion, motivation, move, movements,
   moving, musical phrase, musical sentence, mythos, night soil,
   number, numbers, operation, operations, ordure, ornament,
   out-group, outfit, overseas operations, pack, paeon, pantomime,
   part, party, passage, peer group, pencil, pentameter, pentapody,
   period, peripeteia, phalanx, phrase, plan, platoon, plein-air,
   plot, poise, political activism, political front, popular front,
   pose, posse, posture, power train, principle, proceedings,
   proceleusmatic, progress, prosody, purgation, purge, pyrrhic,
   quantity, reason for being, recognition, refrain, regiment,
   relocation, remotion, removal, removement, resolution, response,
   restlessness, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rising action, ritornello,
   run, running, runs, salon, scheme, school, secondary plot, section,
   servomechanism, set, sewage, sewerage, shift, shit, shits, shrug,
   sign, sign language, signal, slant, spondee, sprung rhythm, squad,
   stable, staff work, stance, stanza, statement, stir, stirring,
   stool, story, strain, stream, stress, string, structure, style,
   subject, subplot, swing, switch, syzygy, tailpiece, team, tendency,
   tenor, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, the general tendency,
   the grand style, the main course, thematic development, theme,
   thesis, time spirit, tone, topic, tourism, touristry, traject,
   trajet, transfer, transit, travel, traveling, trend, tribe,
   tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, troop, trots,
   troupe, turd, turistas, tutti, tutti passage, twist, unrest,
   variation, velocity, verse, voidance, war game, war plans,
   watchworks, wheels, wheels within wheels, wing, workings, works

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