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| Part of Speech: | noun |
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brachiating, catabatic, circumambient, coxinutant, cursorial, dextrosinistral, digitigrade, drawing, erratic, feirie, formicating, gestic, glad, in motion, irpe, irreptitious, laterigrade, left, mercurial, mobile, motile, motive, motory, movable, moving, murgeoning, nomadic, paradromic, pedestrious, pinnigrade, proal, projectile, pronograde, propelled, propelling, propulsive, recoiling, rectigrade, reptant, restless, shanks', sinistrodextral, subsultive, sure, transitional, unquiet, vermigrade, viaggiatory, wandle
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| Concept: | [Successive change of place] Motion. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
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-nouns
motion, movement, move; going; unrest., stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis., step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey; voyage; transit., restlessness (changeableness); mobility; movableness, motive power; laws of motion; mobilization.
-verbs
be in motion; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;., put in motion, set in motion; move; impel; propel; render movable, mobilize.
-adjectives
moving; in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless (changeable); nomadic; erratic.
-adverbs
under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.
-phrases
eppur si muove [Galileo]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
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| Antonyms: | quiescence |
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