English Explanatory Dictionary

move

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
  2. To act; to take action; to begin to act
  3. To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place; similarly to change the location of another establishment such as a business. See also move out and move in.
  4. To transport (an item) as part of changing residences.
  5. To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
  6. To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
  7. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
  8. To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
  9. To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
  10. To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
  11. To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
  12. To apply to, as for aid.
noun
  1. The act of moving; a movement.
  2. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  3. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
  4. The event of changing one's residence.
  5. A change in strategy.
  6. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  7. The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
  8. A round, in which each player has a turn.
  9. Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction

Pronunciation

mo͞ov /muːv/ en-us-move.ogg /myv/

Word forms

move moves moving moved no-table-tags glossary movest movedst moveth meve mieve mooue moove

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor. Middle English moven English move From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian. See also Old English hrēran.

Synonyms

budge interchange move rearrange redistribute relocate shift stir transfer travel adjust disrupt disturb place position put reposition set station transpose get moving take action flit move house remove drive impel propel entice induce inveigle persuade sway affect excite touch trouble bring up mention reference toss up touch on motivate provoke abet actuate goose light a fire under send sting bring about cheer draw encourage egg on engender evoke foment goad grill

Derived words

angels moving the furniture anything that moves café de move-on CHAdeMO comove earth-moving ever-moving faith can move mountains faith will move mountains fast-moving foremove get moving inmove keep it moving match moving mismove movability movable movableness movably movant move about move ahead move along move around move away move back moved in move down move down a notch move down a peg move forward move furniture move heaven and earth move house move in move in on move into move it move it or lose it movement move mountains movent move off move on move one's arse move one's ass move one's bum move one's butt move one's body move one's bowels moveout move out move out to move up move over mover move sideways move someone to tears move south move the chains

Translations

Arabic: تَحَرَّكَ Armenian: շարժել Belarusian: ру́хаць Bulgarian: ме́стя Catalan: moure Cherokee: ᎠᎲᎠ Chinese Mandarin: 動 /动 Czech: pohnout Danish: trække Estonian: käima Farefare: bike Farefare: teem Finnish: siirtää French: bouger Friulian: movi German: bewegen Hebrew: הֵזִיז Hungarian: lép Icelandic: færa Italian: muovere Italian: spostare Japanese: 動かす Khmer: ផ្លាស់ប្ដូរ Korean: 이동시키다 Central Kurdish: جولاندن Lingala: koningisa Lombard: mœuv Māori: mū Moore: toeem zĩlga Norman: bouogi Norwegian Bokmål: flytte Norwegian Nynorsk: flytta Polish: ruszyć się Polish: poruszyć się Portuguese: mover Romanian: mișca Romanian: muta Russian: дви́гать Scottish Gaelic: gluais Spanish: mover Swahili: peleka Swedish: flytta Tamil: நகர் Telugu: నప్పు
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