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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
movement
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hand movement
▪ The disease means she has trouble controlling her hand movements.
a protest group/movement
▪ Students at the heart of the protest movement have called for a general strike.
civil rights demonstration/movement etc
▪ a civil rights leader
currency movements/fluctuations (=changes in the values of currencies)
▪ Global trends such as oil prices influence currency movements.
forward movement
▪ Army roadblocks prevented any further forward movement.
free movement
▪ The legislation will allow the free movement of goods through all the countries in Europe.
freedom of movement (=the right or ability to travel, or the ability to move your body freely)
▪ Thanks to the automobile, Americans had a previously unknown freedom of movement.
▪ The tight uniforms restrict their freedom of movement.
give a wave/movement/signal
▪ He gave a wave of his hand.
▪ Don’t move until I give the signal.
labour movement
line of fire/attack/movement etc (=the direction in which someone shoots, attacks, moves etc)
▪ I was directly in the animal’s line of attack.
pincer movement
sudden movement
▪ a sudden movement
the direction of movement/travel/flow etc
▪ It was hard work rowing against the direction of flow.
the environmental movement (=all the groups concerned about the environment)
▪ There are differences of opinion about nuclear power within the environmental movement.
the nuclear disarmament movement
▪ the growth of the nuclear disarmament movement in the 1950s
the peace movement (=people who work together to achieve peace, and the things they do)
▪ As a young man, he was involved in the peace movement.
the resistance movement (=all the people who work together to resist military forces controlling their country)
▪ Members of the resistance movement were arrested and shot.
upward trend/movement
▪ an upward trend in sales
▪ a sharp upward movement in property prices
women's movement
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civil
▪ So the civil rights movement began to splinter, and young blacks in particular followed more militant leaders.
▪ That was the first issue in the Chicago civil rights movement.
▪ It was enough to outrage the Loyalists without satisfying the Civil Rights movement at all.
▪ Jesse Jackson supplied a picture that helped give the civil rights movement moral weight.
▪ The Republicans are in the civil rights movement the same as they are in the trade unions.
▪ A resolution approving the civil disobedience movement had been passed.
▪ It was 1964, the civil rights movement was sweeping across the land, all the way into the halls of Congress.
feminist
▪ Nikki van der Gaag asks if there is still a feminist movement to defend them.
▪ Women leaders and politicians have had their sexuality challenged from the earliest stirrings of the feminist movement in this country.
▪ She remains one of the most powerful women in academic medicine and in the feminist movement.
▪ Abzug, a powerhouse of the feminist movement for four decades, served three rambunctious terms in the House in the 1970s.
▪ I had never in my life been to a political meeting or demonstration organized by the revitalized feminist movement.
▪ The feminist movement really has to be about liberating the home as well as the marketplace as a choice.
▪ Even a survey of fifteen powerful leaders of the feminist movement revealed that they wanted still more powerful men.
forward
▪ Few games have been played in such restricted space yet provided so much furious forward movement and pace.
▪ No forward movement was made that day.
▪ Therefore, the forward movement at the top of the orbit is greater than the reverse movement at the bottom.
▪ Though these goals sometimes had the effect of emphasizing quantity over quality, they resulted in substantial forward movement.
▪ First of all, some forward cyclic is needed to initiate the forward movement.
▪ The bus jolts into slow forward movement, and Grace guides Allen unsteadily back on to his seat.
▪ One should not get carried away with forward movement.
free
▪ He finished with praise for the Free Church Council movement.
▪ Travel means the free movement of people across boundaries.
▪ This, of course, is essential for free movement to take place.
▪ But occasional inconvenience is or ought to be the price we pay for having a free labor movement.
▪ The leap forward of the last 20 years was assisted by free movements of capital.
▪ The greatest source of insecurity, as noted, lay in competition and the free and unpredictable movement of competitive market prices.
▪ They applaud the free movement of capital; they abhor the free movement of labour.
labour
▪ In 1962 the only focus for the local Labour movement was the trades council.
▪ Southwood was not much interested in the tactics of the Labour movement.
▪ The aim of the Unity Campaign was propaganda within the Labour movement.
▪ The Labour movement might not be a home for lesbians and gays, but it was certainly no longer enemy territory.
▪ Each was conscious of its isolation, each felt the necessity of maintaining contact with the Labour movement.
▪ The Labour movement was not, however, convinced by these arguments: rather it continued to oppose family allowances.
▪ The right of the Labour movement were now firmly in control.
new
▪ Then he felt a new movement.
▪ The supplementary motor area has shown increased activity during learning of new movements.
▪ In short, no book which sets out to analyse modern occultism can afford to avoid this new movement.
▪ Most people who became pentecostals joined the new movement from other denominations, so were not eager to cooperate with them.
▪ At the time, however, the opportunity for an alliance failed to trigger a new mass movement.
▪ The religious press in the first decade of pentecostal history teems with blistering attacks on the new movement.
▪ To understand the new movement, one must go back to the time before rock and roll was born.
political
▪ We participated as part of the mass political movement against the exploitation in our country.
▪ Having led his political movement to power, Netanyahu gave it two shocks that already have begun to tear it in half.
▪ Everything I did personally and everything I explored in my own life seemed part of this much wider political and social movement.
▪ Christians, and people of all faiths, have always participated in the political movements of this country.
▪ On the continent, political movements are already emerging which thrive on the flow of refugees and exploit naked nationalism.
▪ Johannes Uyttenbogaert was closely involved with the Remonstrants, a liberal and political movement opposed to the extremes of Calvinism.
▪ Dissemination through publication Indeed, the origins of both traditions lay more in publishing activity than in organizing mass political movements.
popular
▪ By 1984 the popular movement against the excesses and injustices of the Marcos regime was well-developed.
▪ I learned something about the difference between a serious and quiet pursuit and a popular movement.
▪ After 1848, the popular movement declined.
▪ The arenas hired for these meetings seemed to match the modern creed of the new popular movement.
▪ The history of popular movements and popular disturbances.
▪ But the age of bourgeois triumph was precisely not one of revolutions nor even popular mass political movements.
▪ In agriculture, the popular movement began to respond to the kind of difficulties that farmers like those in Zubaydat had encountered.
▪ For these reasons, they have an enormous sense of solidarity with popular protest movements, trade unionists and political prisoners.
revolutionary
▪ But they left largely unchallenged the Bolshevik view of October 1917 itself as the greatest achievement of the world revolutionary movement.
▪ On all sides, opportunities for growth are opening up for the revolutionary movement.
▪ In addition the armed revolutionary movement was said to control or influence twenty percent of the country's villages.
▪ The main center of the revolutionary movement thereupon shifted for the time being to the colonial countries.
▪ Chapter 5 looks at attempts to explain violent political dissent and the surge of revolutionary movements.
▪ The first was a developed bourgeoisie which needed bureaucracy as a weapon against revolutionary movements.
▪ It was these conditions that gave rise to the revolutionary movement or Alexander's reign.
▪ Instead, the party moulded the spontaneous protest of the working class into a consciously socialist revolutionary movement.
slow
▪ To Western ears, the wind playing in the slow movement will probably sound execrable.
▪ Here in the slow movement she allowed the gentle principal theme to flow naturally and above all musically.
▪ To help him learn to regulate his motor system, games that combine slow and fast movements work well.
▪ The most expansive and forward-looking of the three is the last in D, with its tragic minor-key slow movement.
▪ It will be seen from tables 1 and 2 that such very slow movements were more frequent than one might expect.
▪ His preference for very measured speeds in slow movements leads him to at least one serious miscalculation.
▪ I much liked the unforced eloquence of both their slow movements, especially the Schubert-foreseeing Allegretto of the former.
social
▪ A thorough review of social movement theory and research in advanced industrial democracies.
▪ They do not, that is to say, make a very large contribution to a theory of social movements.
▪ This work traces the development of social movement theory and research.
▪ Their analysis traces the political origins and impact of social movement activity in terms of the protection of individual rights of citizenship.
▪ A comparison of these studies illustrates clearly their various contributions to the study social movements.
▪ Besides being a political coalition, the Frente Amplio had a social movement identity.
▪ Both measures of social mobilization are used to demonstrate the contours of social movement activity in the four cases.
sudden
▪ These sudden movements quake the Earth.
▪ Farm support prices are a useful protection against sudden adverse price movements.
▪ He didn't spare Schmidt a glance; his eyes held Culley's, waiting for the glint that betrays sudden movement.
▪ Any sudden movement and you have sticky syrup all over the place, including the steering wheel.
▪ That sudden movement, slight as it was, jerked away the stone which Chignell had placed behind one of the wheels.
▪ We are all startled by this sudden movement.
▪ But there was a sudden movement behind her.
▪ Don't jump from grooming the back of the pony to the front, i.e. making sudden movements.
upward
▪ Hypo F &038; C reckons to be able to achieve an average of 60% of any upward movement in the index.
▪ The nystagmus consists of coarse oscillations that remain in the horizontal plane, even on upward and downward movements of the eyes.
▪ This would drag the underlying asthenosphere along and promote a compensatory upward movement within the mantle under mid-oceanic ridges.
▪ Some of the hedgehogs embellish their self-protection with an upward jerking movement.
▪ Smoothing aims to remove any upward or downward movement in the series that is not part of a sustained trend.
▪ Gently stroke the entire face with gentle upward movements as in Step 4. 14.
▪ Dots and dashes could therefore be identified by the upward and downward movements of the current curve.
▪ Somewhere around 1973, the upward movement in family incomes stalled.
■ NOUN
bowel
▪ My, the clarity and attack of our bowel movements.
▪ Describe in detail your last bowel movement, leaving out nothing.
▪ Although it isn't necessary for a person to have a bowel movement every day, regular movements should be encouraged.
▪ Q: I have a bowel movement once a week.
▪ In the other subjects liquid bowel movements stopped after 24 hours.
▪ How often an individual has a bowel movement is related to a number of factors.
▪ Some patients may have recorded an episode of faecal incontinence as a bowel movement, before the beginning of retraining.
▪ Ulcers also can cause vomiting, sometimes of blood, and can cause blood to show up in bowel movements.
eye
▪ The program could also be controlled by a head or eye movement.
▪ To further reduce eye movement, patients lie in bed, quiet, for up to a week.
▪ This can disturb the normal eye movements that would be used by a fluent reader, and visual scanning can be impaired.
▪ Eye convergence often inhibits the eye movements.
▪ This spatial code is used to direct accurate and selective regressive eye movements.
▪ The researchers would track eye movement to see which picture the tots would choose.
▪ If rapid eye movements accompany dreaming, does it mean that our eyes are following the action of the dreams?
▪ But in postoperative testing, both children were visually alert with full eye movements, although each showed intermittent strabismus.
liberation
▪ The loss to the liberation movement through gagging, imprisonment, intimidation and exile was enormous.
▪ What is the connection, between your activities as a writer and the activities of the political liberation movement?
▪ Elean: What is the programme of the liberation movement in relation to this specific question of male supremacy and the position of women?
▪ As an aside the research revealed that just under half of the women questioned did not support the women's liberation movement.
▪ The pressures that force these two processes do not cease after a national liberation movement attains power.
▪ I would like to suggest that history has served its purpose so far as the liberation movement was concerned.
peace
▪ The impact of war on ordinary lives was beginning to create the conditions for a mass peace movement.
▪ In their latest incarnation, these cheerful blooms have lost their association with the peace movement.
▪ He was involved in the peace movement but never a pacifist.
▪ If Peres and Labor are defeated, the Likud Party has vowed to put the brakes on the peace movement.
▪ Indeed when the hope finally collapsed, in the first six months of 1939, the peace movement collapsed with it.
▪ Early in 1915 most of the younger activists resigned in order to devote their energies to developing a women's peace movement.
▪ This is because there is no organised nuclear peace movement in the subcontinent to provide a focus for the disarmament constituency.
▪ This in turn raises a series of further issues about rights of crucial importance to the peace movement.
protest
▪ This gave the protest movements plenty of time to galvanize support.
▪ At no moment before, or perhaps since, had the protest movement felt better or stronger.
▪ Over the next two years the protest movement, a mixture of genuine discontent, sincere concern and self-indulgence, petered out.
▪ Reducing women fundamentalists to obedient bystanders is to badly misunderstand the dynamics of the religious protest movement.
▪ In 1986 the new Public Order Act came into force. Protest movements had to face some reduction of their freedoms.
▪ May Day protest movement began in Chicago over 114 years ago.
▪ What is needed now is the kind of global protest movement that Jubilee 2000 developed over debt relief.
▪ A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution, but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927.
troop
▪ Valuable information was sent back regarding troop movements, flying-bomb factory and assembly areas, and supply dumps.
▪ The graphics depicting troop movements are simple-minded and drawn on forgettable backgrounds.
▪ If the main troop movements were quicker than in 480 B.C., those of the scouts were faster still, in proportion.
▪ Massive baggage trains enabled rapid troop movement by the Frankish army without repeated foraging.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bowel movement
▪ Although it isn't necessary for a person to have a bowel movement every day, regular movements should be encouraged.
▪ How often an individual has a bowel movement is related to a number of factors.
▪ Q: I have a bowel movement once a week.
▪ Some patients may have recorded an episode of faecal incontinence as a bowel movement, before the beginning of retraining.
breakaway group/party/movement
▪ De Rossa said that his breakaway group would form a new democratic socialist party.
▪ Members of a breakaway group who blocked traffic in University Square the same evening were forcibly dispersed by police.
▪ Nor were there frustrated breakaway movements from a handful of top clubs.
▪ Thus the breakaway group, organizing its own exhibition, was an obvious initiative.
charismatic church/movement
▪ Despite the recent successes of house churches and charismatic movements, the overall picture is unchanged.
▪ Evangelical and charismatic church seem to be more successful in bring adults to faith.
▪ We see the resurgence in the new nonconformism of the house churches and sometimes in the charismatic movement.
the labour movement
the women's movement
troop movement/withdrawal etc
▪ If the main troop movements were quicker than in 480 B.C., those of the scouts were faster still, in proportion.
▪ Soviet troop withdrawals Talks involving Col.-Gen.
▪ The agreement on troop withdrawal was to be regarded as the basis for a future treaty on the issue.
▪ The graphics depicting troop movements are simple-minded and drawn on forgettable backgrounds.
▪ Valuable information was sent back regarding troop movements, flying-bomb factory and assembly areas, and supply dumps.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a dancer's graceful movements
▪ Any movement will set off the alarm.
▪ He watched her graceful movements as she came towards him.
▪ I crept to the door, and with a sudden movement, opened it wide.
▪ Make gentle sweeping movements across the hedge so that the blade can cut on both sides.
▪ One of the leaders of the pro-democracy movement has been arrested.
▪ She was active in a number of political movements, including the campaign to end slavery.
▪ Soldiers were sent into the area to report on the enemy's movements.
▪ the movement of goods across state borders
▪ the movement of the human heart
▪ The aim of the civil rights movement was to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms.
▪ the civil rights movement
▪ The doctor thinks she'll recover quite a lot of movement, though maybe not all.
▪ The environmental movement has been trying to preserve our natural resources.
▪ the first movement of Bach's A Minor Violin Concerto
▪ The modern age of movement towards democracy began with the French Revolution in 1789.
▪ The slower you do sit-ups, the harder the movement is to do.
▪ There's been no movement in the dispute since Thursday.
▪ There is a gradual movement towards tolerance and understanding.
▪ We watched for signs of movement in the trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a baby can explore the world and learn through its movements, so Infant explores its world and expands its capabilities.
▪ During the 1920S, they worked furiously to force him out of movement leadership.
▪ It takes much time and effort to find recorded music that is suitable as movement accompaniment.
▪ Sethe took the opportunity afforded by his movement to shift as well.
▪ The prospect of still higher unemployment as growth slows is prompting movement on the union side.
▪ This is especially true of open reservoirs, less so on established pits or lakes where bankside vegetation restricts movement.
▪ Would a renewed Labour Party imply a revived trade union movement?
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Movement

Movement \Move"ment\, n. [F. mouvement. See Move, and cf. Moment.]

  1. The act of moving in space; change of place or posture; motion; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine.

  2. Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement.

  3. Transference, by any means, from one situation to another; a change of situation; progress toward a goal; advancement; as, after months of fruitless discussion there was finally some movement toward an agreement.

  4. Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

  5. (Mus.)

    1. The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece. ``Any change of time is a change of movement.''
      --Busby.

    2. One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony.

  6. (Mech.) A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch; as, a seventeen jewel movement.

  7. A more or less organized effort by many people to achieve some goal, especially a social or artistic goal; as, the women's liberation movement; the progressive movement in architecture.

    Febrile movement (Med.), an elevation of the body temperature; a fever.

    Movement cure. (Med.) See Kinesiatrics.

    Movement of the bowels, an evacuation or stool; a passage or discharge.

    Syn: Motion.

    Usage: Movement, Motion. Motion expresses a general idea of not being at rest; movement is oftener used to express a definite, regulated motion, esp. a progress.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
movement

late 14c., from Old French movement "movement, exercise; start, instigation" (Modern French mouvement), from Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (see move (v.)). In the musical sense of "major division of a piece" it is attested from 1776; in the political/social sense, from 1828. Related: Movements.

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Wiktionary
movement

n. 1 physical motion between points in space. 2 (context engineering English) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch. 3 The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc. 4 A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals 5 (context music English) A large division of a larger composition. 6 (context aviation English) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing. 7 (context baseball English) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight. 8 An act of emptying the bowels. 9 (context obsolete English) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

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WordNet
movement

  1. n. 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" [syn: motion, move, motility]

  2. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something [syn: motion]

  3. 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" [syn: motion, move]

  4. 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" [syn: social movement, front]

  5. a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic"

  6. 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" [syn: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort]

  7. 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" [syn: apparent motion, motion, apparent movement]

  8. a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement" [syn: bowel movement, bm]

  9. 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" [syn: drift, trend]

  10. the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"

  11. the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"

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Wikipedia
Movement

Movement may refer to:

  • Movement (clockwork), the internal mechanism of a timepiece
  • Movement (sign language), the direction and nature of the movement of the hands when signing
  • Syntactic movement, a phenomenon in some theories of grammar
Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession. A movement is a section, "a major structural unit perceived as the result of the coincidence of relatively large numbers of structural phenomena."

Movement (song)

"Movement" is a song by American rock band LCD Soundsystem. It was released as a single on 8 November 2004 through DFA Records and appeared on their eponymous debut studio album, released in 2005.

Movement (The Gossip album)

Movement is the second album by American indie rock band Gossip, it was released on May 6, 2003.

Movement (EP)

Movement E.P. is an extended play released by trance DJ BT. It was released in Germany only, and contains four singles from BT's third studio album, Movement in Still Life, which was released approximately five years prior to this EP itself.

Movement (clockwork)

In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber, is the mechanism of a clock or watch, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face which displays the time. The term originated with mechanical timepieces, whose clockwork movements are made of many moving parts. It is less frequently applied to modern electronic or quartz timepieces, where the word module is often used instead.

In modern mass-produced clocks and watches, the same movement is often inserted into many different styles of case. When buying a quality pocketwatch from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, for example, the customer would select movement and case individually. Mechanical movements get dirty and the lubricants dry up, so they must periodically be disassembled, cleaned, and lubricated. One source recommends servicing intervals of: 3–5 years for watches, 15–20 years for grandfather clocks, 10–15 years for wall or mantel clocks, 15–20 years for anniversary clocks, and 7 years for cuckoo clocks, with the longer intervals applying to antique timepieces.

Movement (New Order album)

Movement is the debut studio album by the English rock band New Order, released in November 1981 on Factory Records. At the time of its release, the album was not particularly well received by critics or consumers, only peaking at number thirty on the UK Albums Chart. Subsequent critical reception for Movement have been very positive.

In 2008 the album was re-released in a Collector's Edition with a bonus disc.

Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 42 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s" saying "Movement exists almost exactly in between Joy Division's post-punk sound and the synth-pop style that would come to define New Order and influence pop music for decades".

In 2015, after the release of their tenth album, Music Complete, the album was remastered and released in the US iTunes Store.

Movement (9mm Parabellum Bullet album)

is the fourth full-length album of the Japanese rock band 9mm Parabellum Bullet, released on June 15, 2011.

Movement (sign language)

In sign languages, movement, or sig, refers to the distinctive hand actions that form words. In William Stokoe's terminology, it is the , an abbreviation of signation. Movement is one of five components of a sign—with handshape , orientation , location , and facial-body expression. Different sign languages use different types of movement. Some treatments distinguish movement and hold—signs, or parts of signs, that involve motion vs. those that hold the hands still.

Movement (Joe Harriott album)

Movement is the fourth album by Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott recorded in England in 1963 and released on the Columbia label.

Movement (band)

Movement (stylized as MOVEMENT) is an Australian minimal soul band, blending R&B and ambient music. Their self-titled debut EP was released in 2014.

Movement (Holly Herndon album)

Movement is the first studio album by American electronic musician Holly Herndon, released by RVNG Intl. on 12 November 2012. A music video for the album's title track was uploaded to the RVNG Intl. YouTube account on 29 November 2012

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Usage examples of "movement".

A flush of heat engulfed Abie as she watched the slow, seductive movements of the dancers on the stage.

This was nothing unusual, however, so Mary simply broke through the ice and began her morning ablutions, gratefully noticing that gentle movement reduced the soreness in her wrists.

Shimon made a movement with his hand and Abrim waited for the screen to go dark.

The abutments also must be strong enough to take safely the thrust of the weighted arch, as the slightest movement in these supports will cause deflection and failure.

Suddenly she heard movement in the undergrowth and whirled to see Acorn lunging toward her with a crazed gleam in his eyes.

It offers itself for belief, and, if believed, it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it, or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth.

If on the other hand by this actualization it is meant that he is Act and Intellection, then as being Intellection he does not exercise it, just as movement is not itself in motion.

A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone.

I segued into the second movement, that sense of bright expectation replaced by the slow, haunting strains of the Adagio, at once lyrical and sad -- mirroring the turns my own life had taken, the shifting harmonies sounding to me like the raised voices of ghosts, of echoes.

A part or organ may be called sensitive, when its irritation excites movement in an adjoining part.

It was shown in the last chapter that the stolons or runners of certain plants circumnutate largely, and that this movement apparently aids them in finding a passage between the crowded stems of adjoining plants.

As the adulation showered upon Napoleon reaches a fevered pitch and spurs a movement to name him First Consul for Life with the right to name a successor, Josephine has misgivings.

Royalist critics on the Right charged that his mediating, unifying role as National Guard commander was hopelessly undercut by his advocacy of natural rights and his tolerance of popular movements that could lead only to social disintegration.

Arnold, was a writer and historian whose energetic advocacy of liberal ideas and international, liberal movements soon attracted the attention of sympathetic and hostile readers.

Here the impression caused by the light stimulus, upon reaching the medulla along an afferent nerve, is deflected to a motor nerve and, without any conscious control of the movements, the muscles of the eyelid receive the necessary impulse to close.