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Noun movement has 11 senses

motion, movement, move, motility - 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"
--₁ is a kind of change
--₁ has particulars:

Derived form: verb move₃

movement, motion - a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
--₂ is a kind of happening, occurrence, natural event
--₂ has particulars:

Derived form: verb move₁

motion, movement, move - 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"
--₃ is a kind of change
--₃ has particulars:

approach, approaching, coming; progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion; locomotion, travel; lurch, lunge; travel, traveling, travelling; pursuit, chase, following; rise, ascent, ascension, ascending; descent; swing, swinging, vacillation; return; slide, glide, coast; slippage; flow, stream; crawl; speed, speeding, hurrying; translation, displacement; shift, shifting; haste, hurry, rush, rushing; maneuver, manoeuvre, play; migration

Derived forms: verb move₁, verb move₄, verb move₂

movement, social movement, front - 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"
--₄ is a kind of social group
--₄ has particulars:

Free French, Fighting French; artistic movement, art movement; Boy Scouts; Civil Rights movement; common front; cultural movement; falun gong; political movement; reform movement; religious movement; Zionism, Zionist movement

movement - a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic"
--₅ is a kind of musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
--₅ is a part of sonata
--₅ has particulars: intermezzo; scherzo

campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort - 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"
--₆ is a kind of venture
--₆ has particulars:

apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement - 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"
--₇ is a kind of optical illusion
bowel movement, movement, bm - a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement"
--₈ is a kind of defecation, laxation, shitting
drift, trend, movement - 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"
--₉ is a kind of inclination, disposition, tendency
--₉ has particulars: evolutionary trend; gravitation
movement - the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
--₁₀ is a kind of action, action mechanism
--₁₀ is a part of watch, ticker; clock

movement - the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"
--₁₁ is a kind of change
--₁₁ has particulars:

displacement, deracination; transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance; insertion, introduction, intromission; lowering, letting down; transplant, transplanting, transplantation; troop movement

Derived form: verb move₂