Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word MOVE

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Definitions of MOVE

1. To request an action from the court.
2. The act of moving; a movement.
3. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
4. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
5. The event of changing one's residence.
6. A change in strategy.
7. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
8. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
9. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act
10. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
11. (transitive, ergative) 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
12. (transitive, chess, board games) To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
13. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
14. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
15. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
16. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
17. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
18. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
19. (intransitive, obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
20. (transitive, business) To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
21. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
22. (board games, usually, in plural) A round, in which each player has a turn.
23. (transitive, computer programming) To transfer the value of one object in memory to another efficiently (i.e., without copying it in entirety).
24. (syntax) Within the Minimalist Program, a fundamental operation of syntactic construction

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Examples of Using MOVE in a Sentence

• Permanent anchors are used in the creation of a mooring, and are rarely moved; a specialist service is normally needed to move or maintain them.
• Astronomical aberration, phenomenon wherein objects appear to move about their true positions in the sky.
• It was the successor of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by former followers of Benito Mussolini that had moderated its policies over its last decades and finally distanced itself from its former ideology, a move known as , during a convention in Fiuggi by dissolving into the new party in 1995.
• as the Clampetts, a poor backwoods family from the Ozark Mountains of Missouri who move to posh Beverly Hills, California after striking oil on their land.
• Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.
• Brasília is a planned city developed by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Joaquim Cardozo in 1956 in a scheme to move the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a more central location.
• Continental drift is the theory, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time.
• The genus was traditionally placed in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae, but phylogenetic research led taxonomists to move it to the Veronicaceae in 2001.
• In several forms of football, a forward pass is the throwing of the ball in the direction in which the offensive team is trying to move, towards the defensive team's goal line.
• Teams must move a hockey ball around a field by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting circle and then into the goal.
• In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that may continuously move and deform (flow) under an applied shear stress, or external force.
• The movements of flight controls are converted to electronic signals, and flight control computers determine how to move the actuators at each control surface to provide the ordered response.
• Bopp was born in Mainz, but the political disarray in the Republic of Mainz caused his parents' move to Aschaffenburg, the second seat of the Archbishop of Mainz.
• Being passive, facilitated transport does not directly require chemical energy from ATP hydrolysis in the transport step itself; rather, molecules and ions move down their concentration gradient according to the principles of diffusion.
• Nucleic acid molecules are separated by applying an electric field to move the negatively charged molecules through a matrix of agarose or other substances.
• It is of particular importance in processing proteins for secretion, containing a set of glycosylation enzymes that attach various sugar monomers to proteins as the proteins move through the apparatus.
• In a significant move for modernization, Hungary decided in 2001 to buy 14 JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft for about €800 million.
• The turn-based game has the player trying to avoid fatal bottomless pits and "super bats" that will move them around the cave system; the goal is to fire one of their "crooked arrows" through the caves to kill the Wumpus.
• He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine aided by his winged sandals.
• 1377 – Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.

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