首页英语词典movementmovement英英释意

movement

英['muːvm(ə)nt] 美['muvmənt]
  • n. 运动;活动;运转;乐章

英英释意


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"
2. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
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"
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"
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"
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"
8. a euphemism for defecation;
"he had a bowel movement"
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"
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"