moving

Plural: movings

Verb

• Present participle of 'move'; changing position or causing emotional impact.
• change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
• cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
  • "I'm moving my money to another bank"
• move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
• change residence, affiliation, or place of employment
• follow a procedure or take a course
• be in a state of action
  • "she is always moving"
• go or proceed from one point to another
• perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
• have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
• give an incentive for action
• arouse sympathy or compassion in
• dispose of by selling
• progress by being changed
• live one's life in a specified environment
• have a turn; make one's move in a game
• propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting
• present participle and gerund of move

Adjective

• in motion
  • "a constantly moving crowd"
  • "the moving parts of the machine"
• arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion; - N. Hawthorne
  • "she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter"
• used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion
  • "Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or `the movies'"

Adj

• That moves or move.
• Causing or evoking deep emotions.

Noun

• The relocation of goods
• A causing of a movement

Examples

• He spent several minutes moving tiles around on his rack, trying to form a seven-letter word.
• moving pictures
• The rats' movings are willed movements.

Synonyms

act, actuate, affect, be active, displace, go, impress, incite, locomote, make a motion, motivate, move, proceed, prompt, propel, run, strike, travel, affecting, afoot, animate, arousing, astir, cursory, disturbing, dramatic, dynamic, eloquent, emotional, emotive, expressive, gripping, heartbreaking, heartrending, in motion, meaningful, mobile, moving, on the move, on the wing, persuasive, poignant, significant, soul stirring, striking, stunning, touching, under sail, unstill, upsetting

Antonyms

nonmoving, refrain, rest, stand still, stay, stay in place, still, unmoving, nonarousing, nondisturbing, nonemotional, nonemotive, nonexpressive, nonmeaningful, nonpersuasive, nonsignificant, stationary, unaffecting, unarousing, undisturbing, uneloquent, unemotive, unexpressive, ungripping, unmeaningful, unpersuasive, unpoignant

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