motion
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
motion/ˈməʊʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the action or process of moving or being moved.
- 2 a movement or gesture.
- 3 a piece of moving mechanism.
- 4 a formal proposal put to a legislature or committee.
■ Law an application for a rule or order of court.
- 5 Brit. an evacuation of the bowels.
– phrases
go through the motions
go through the motions
- 1 do something perfunctorily.
- 2 simulate an action.
– derivatives
motional adjective,
motionless adjective,
motionlessly adverb.
motional adjective,
motionless adjective,
motionlessly adverb.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. motio(n-), from movere ‘to move’.
'motion' also found in these Oxford entries:
aberration
- absolute zero
- Academy award
- accusative
- action replay
- ad-
- anabatic
- anharmonic
- arrest
- backstroke
- backwash
- band
- bateleur eagle
- belt
- billow
- biodynamics
- block
- blow
- bobble
- body English
- bradykinin
- Brownian motion
- bump
- cabriolet
- cam
- cam follower
- carsick
- chain gear
- chop
- chronometer
- circulation
- cog
- commotion
- communicate
- composite
- content
- contretemps
- Coriolis effect
- countershaft
- crab spider
- crank
- degree of freedom
- detent
- dextral
- diakinesis
- direct
- directional
- dog clutch
- dowse
- dwell
