MOVING • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Moving

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/mˈuvɪŋ/ Listen

Moving

adjective

1.

In motion. "The moving parts of the machine" Antonym: nonmoving.

2.

Arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion. Antonym: unmoving.

3.

Used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion. Antonym: still.

Move

verb

(past & past part. moved; pres. part. moving)

1.

Change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically. Synonyms: go, locomote, travel. "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus" , "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect" , "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" , "News travelled fast" Antonym: stay in place.

2.

Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense. Synonym: displace. "I'm moving my money to another bank" , "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"

3.

Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion. Antonym: stand still.

4.

Change residence, affiliation, or place of employment. "The basketball player moved from one team to another" Antonym: stay.

5.

Follow a procedure or take a course. Synonyms: go, proceed. "She went through a lot of trouble" , "Go about the world in a certain manner" , "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"

6.

Be in a state of action. Synonym: be active. Antonym: rest.

7.

Go or proceed from one point to another.

8.

Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action). Synonym: act. "We must move quickly" , "The governor should act on the new energy bill" , "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" Antonym: refrain.

9.

Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon. Synonyms: affect, impress, strike. "This behavior struck me as odd"

10.

Give an incentive for action. Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, prompt, propel.

11.

Arouse sympathy or compassion in.

12.

Dispose of by selling.

13.

Progress by being changed. Synonyms: go, run. "Run through your presentation before the meeting"

14.

Live one's life in a specified environment.

15.

Have a turn; make one's move in a game. Synonym: go.

16.

Propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting. Synonym: make a motion.

See more definitions of Moving...

See images of 'Moving'

Antonyms of 'Moving'

Etymology of 'Moving'

Related searches:

moving staircase

moving stairway

moving-coil galvanometer

moving-picture show

move back and forth

move involuntarily

move reflexively

foetal movement

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Moving" Quotes from Famous Books

... was quite above the horizon before the meal was finished, and soon Hunter Brother was anxious to be moving on, so they took their way along the lake shore. On their way they talked and laughed one with another and seemed to agree very well, until they had gone around the lake and reached where Tahoe City now is. Here they quarreled and the Hunter ...

— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James

... Moving events, while remaining enshrined in this fashion in their permanent setting, may contain other and less external relations to the immutable. They may represent it. If the pleasures of sense are not cancelled when they cease, but continue to satisfy reason in that they once satisfied natural ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... o'clock the spasmodic patter of rifles was heard in front. We were halted. Haskell's battalion filed to the right, deployed, and the column marched on, with the sharp-shooters moving as skirmishers ...

— Who Goes There? • Blackwood Ketcham Benson

... beat in her veins. All the safeguards that should have hedged her were gone. A wise mother, an understanding father, could have saved her from the tragedy waiting to engulf her. But she had neither of these. Instead, her father's inhibitions pushed her toward that doom to which she was moving blindfold. ...

— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine

... it attained an enormous size. An Englishman told me that he and some Malays were exploring the jungle to find traces of antimony ore, and came to an opening in the wood, across which they saw the body of a sawar as thick as his own—he was not very stout—moving along; but they never saw either the head or tail of that snake, for, after watching its progress for a long time, they were seized with a panic at its enormous length, ...

— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall

Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com