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"
Source: WordNet® 2.0