movement

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of changing the location of something

   the movement of cargo onto the vessel

2. 2
   noun

   the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)

   it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement

3. 3
   noun

   a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata

   the second movement is slow and melodic

4. 4
   noun

   a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

   I was a charter member of the movement.

5. 5
   noun

   a euphemism for defecation

   I had a bowel movement.

6. 6
   noun

   Physical motion between points in space.

   I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.

7. 7
   noun

   A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.

   social movement

8. 8
   noun

   A large division of a larger composition.

   Beethoven's movements

Etymology

From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring. Morphologically move + -ment.