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motion: 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"; 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"; a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question"; a state of change; "they were in a state of steady motion"

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forward motion collapse

sternway collapse

onrush collapse: a forceful forward rush or flow; "from the bow she stared at the mesmerising onrush of the sea where it split and foamed"; "the explosion interrupted the wild onrush of her thoughts"

reappearance collapse: the act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited"; the event of something appearing again; "the reappearance of Halley's comet"

reoccurrence collapse

pivoting collapse

whirling collapse: moving or driven rapidly in a rotary or twisting motion; "a tornado's whirling winds"; "swirling currents"

spinning collapse: creating thread

oscillation collapse: (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean; the process of oscillating between states

gyration collapse: the act of rotating in a circle or spiral

whir collapse: sound of something in rapid motion; "whir of a bird's wings"; "the whir of the propellers"

full circle collapse

retrogression collapse

climbing collapse

ongoing collapse: currently happening; "an ongoing economic crisis"

beckon collapse: signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"; summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture; appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned"

plunging collapse

regression collapse: returning to a former state; the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x); (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

reflux collapse: an abnormal backward flow of body fluids

swirling collapse

reeling collapse

actuate collapse

career collapse: the general progression of your working or professional life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he had a long career in the law"; the particular occupation for which you are trained; move headlong at high speed; "The cars careered down the road"; "The mob careered through the streets"

shrug collapse: a gesture involving the shoulders; raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation

ascent collapse: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"

trend collapse

traveling collapse

periodicity collapse

soaring collapse: ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual; "soaring prices"; moving to great heights with little apparent effort; "a soaring eagle"

time and motion study collapse: an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort

set in motion collapse

resonance collapse: the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities; a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system; an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation

propel collapse: cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship"

bundle off collapse: send off unceremoniously

pulsation collapse: (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"; a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity

nudie collapse

newsreel collapse: a short film and commentary about current events

talkie collapse

silent film collapse

sneak preview collapse: a preview to test audience reactions

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