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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
move
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bold move
▪ The newspapers described her resignation as a bold move.
a career change/move
▪ After ten years in the job, I realized that I needed to make a career change.
a chess move
▪ You first have to learn the basic chess moves.
a moving speech (=making people feel strong emotions)
▪ That was a very moving speech.
a surprise move (=an unexpected action)
▪ In a surprise move, the government lifted the ban on arms exports to the country.
be moved to tears (=be so upset that you cry)
▪ Members of the audience were moved to tears by her singing.
be/move/work in sync
▪ The two mechanisms have to work in sync.
clouds move/roll
▪ A narrow band of cloud has been moving across the country.
move a file
▪ He was trying to move the file from one folder to another.
move forward
▪ Britain is now ready to move forward.
move into a flat
▪ They move into their new flat next week.
move into/out of a house
▪ We’re moving into our new house next week.
move into/out of an apartment (=start living in a new apartment, or leave an apartment in order to live somewhere else)
▪ They moved into the apartment last Easter.
move into/out of an area
▪ She had just moved into the area and knew very few people.
▪ Many young people are moving out of rural areas.
move towards a climax
▪ Political tensions were moving towards a climax.
move towards independence (=gradually achieve it over a period of time)
▪ The country was slowly moving towards independence.
move up/down a scale
▪ Some farmers prospered and moved up the social scale.
move/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body)
move/go upmarket
▪ a brand that’s moved upmarket (= it is trying to attract richer people)
move/head in a direction
▪ We followed the other passengers heading in the direction of passport control.
move/mix in a circle (=belong to a particular type of circle)
▪ At Harvard he moved in scientific circles.
moves/plans/changes afoot
▪ There were plans afoot for a second attack.
moving freely
▪ The injury prevented him from moving freely.
moving picture
moving staircase
moving van
One false move
▪ One false move and you’re dead.
relocation/moving expenses
▪ Successful candidates will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes relocation expenses if needed.
sb’s gaze moves/travels/shifts/sweeps etc
▪ His gaze travelled over the still water to the other side of the lake.
smart move (=sensible thing to do)
▪ His decision to become a director was a smart move.
tactical move/decision/ploy
▪ a tactical decision to send in troops
the emphasis shifts/moves (=changes)
▪ The emphasis is now shifting away from oil towards renewable sources of energy.
traffic moves/flows
▪ At last the traffic was moving again.
wise move (=not be a sensible thing to do)
▪ I don’t think that would be a very wise move.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ She spotted other figures moving about, and from some place close by she heard agonized sobbing.
▪ I think we have the right to move about as we please.
▪ Changing preferences will be shown in siting, and occupation will tend to move about within an area.
▪ They are afraid, they stumble and feel weak-how do you move about when chains were your programmed destiny?
▪ Secondly, don't move about so often-stay in one place.
▪ He could also move about in a battery-operated wheelchair, which was designed to look like a toy car.
▪ People moving about in the dead of night, poisons being administered in a locked room.
▪ Criminal justice officials say he apparently moves about freely under the noses of state leaders, including Gov.
along
▪ It's a very good cruiser, too, moving along effortlessly at motorway limit speeds and above. 40.
▪ For five minutes she is moving along as usual.
▪ She moved along the heath, and from a tuft of darkness something came out and stood in her way.
▪ All this is presented with slick lighting and production values, moving along at a crisp pace.
▪ The Mercedes moved along the Kurfurstendamm as snow started to fall again.
▪ We are are so big, and move along with such momentum, that we are able to live through everything.
▪ I moved along to the patio window.
▪ Both are moved along at the same speed and in the same direction by the proportioning pump.
around
▪ They have been jaw locking, tail shaking and they always move around the tank together.
▪ But you could never be sure if one or both of these batteries would be there because they were frequently moved around.
▪ Able to move around with limp.
▪ So I can hang on to things as I move around.
▪ Prowling, scuffling, moving around out there somewhere ... There was another crash of thunder.
▪ As the forensic team finished with areas of the flat he could move around more and disturb things.
▪ Can the text and graphics be moved around once they have been placed on the page?
away
▪ The woman with the child began to move away.
▪ They moved away to have a more private conversation, from which I gathered problems existed.
▪ I wave airily and the face moves away.
▪ I moved away from my personal and creative environments, and just grew up, essentially.
▪ She had never done this before, never felt like this, but she had no thought at all of moving away.
▪ He looked over at the judge, but the judge had already started to move away.
▪ We climbed aboard the transport and as we moved away in convoy I gazed at Francoise from the back of the truck.
back
▪ She moved back against the pillow and drew me on top of her.
▪ I may even move back one day.
▪ The only relevant question now is: will the new government enable to him to move back into the driving seat?
▪ But Dominic says moving back home would be a defeat.
▪ Keep the board level; move back as the wind increases.
▪ Anderson repeatedly refused to predict when the company will move back into the black.
▪ And they have vowed to refuse to move back into the flats on Conwy Morfa until their demands are met.
▪ He moved back to his native country briefly, where he married, and then returned here, Crum said.
closer
▪ Hala giggled and rocked back and forth and Fatima moved closer to watch.
▪ Several microphones, which had been hanging listlessly in reporters' hands, suddenly rose and moved closer to Cantor.
▪ The criterion moves closer to asking whether the courts believe that the exercise of discretion was reasonable.
▪ Over the years, the departments have moved closer together and combining them will also lead to efficiency savings for the authority.
▪ Hicks moved closer to the stove, partly turning his back on her.
▪ In Walter's action, the hammer is moved closer to the stationary check.
▪ Some couples who do not seem to be close previously may move closer together as they work through the process of adaptation.
fast
▪ Got ta move fast in this business.
▪ Or some one driving north toward Lake of the Woods, moving fast, coming to her rescue.
▪ He was angry with the hijackers and he was angry with himself because he had not moved fast enough to help Harald.
▪ San Diego is an international city and we are growing fast and we are moving fast.
▪ The company had moved fast since landing at Portsmouth with King Henry late in October.
▪ When Ted was out of the bathroom and thumping around in the bedroom, I moved fast.
▪ We had therefore to move fast.
▪ The salamander, who now barely moved, could never have moved fast.
forward
▪ We move forward only as rapidly as our successes permit, and progress often does not seem rapid enough.
▪ In the meantime, the 2d Battalion of the 271 Regiment, moving forward in a column, engaged the northernmost company.
▪ It means that energy is required to overcome the friction as well as to move forward.
▪ They moved forward because there seemed to be no competition in the distribution business.
▪ The most important thing is integrity and moving forward.
▪ The boat moved forward with a jerking motion as the line to the police launch slacked and tightened in the swell.
▪ He moved forward, hand against the wall of the passage.
▪ Since those legs happen to be touching the ground, the body moves forward.
freely
▪ These characters would never escape their existential lots, or move freely from one class to another.
▪ But even for those who move freely in this circle of literary classics, Characters still has some problems.
▪ The traffic, even at that time of evening, wasn't good, but at least it was moving freely.
▪ They are apt to talk a great deal with each other and to move freely and purposefully about the space.
▪ One reason is that the lithosphere is not divided into small discrete blocks able to move freely up and down with respect to each other.
▪ Once hot spots and rifting cave created a new border, the plates on either side of it start moving freely.
▪ There are, however, natural systems in which dissolved metals move freely through membranes, irrespective of concentration.
▪ These gnomes would move freely through the earth and were guardians of mines and quarries.
in
▪ He touched the toad and it inflated jerkily, its throat moving in and out like bellows.
▪ In its place, more activist shareholders are moving in.
▪ When you move in, you must move in fast - really fast.
▪ You remind me of law sessions they used to have in the gold fields before the North West mounted moved in.
▪ She'd moved in on and in with Dionne, spitting scorn at her friends, slurring drunk at parties.
▪ When old enough, Margaret left the farm and moved in with a knight.
▪ They moved in, and invited William Morris to stay so that he might advise them on decorating and restoring the place.
▪ None of them were moving in.
off
▪ We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the dense undergrowth, chopping at it with jungle machetes.
▪ The plates slide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.
▪ Can't move off this confounded sofa.
▪ She opened the door and watched him move off down the corridor.
▪ The chauffeur started up, and they moved off.
▪ Then, at his peak, he moves off to Paris, London, Berlin.
▪ He would stand and just look at his trusted trainer, not moving off as directed.
▪ She remembered John moving off to shake hands along a chain fence, his face rigid in the gray drizzle.
on
▪ Hornby, founded in 1908, has now moved on from trains and cars to sell dolls and video games.
▪ It was time to move on.
▪ Yes, we would move on.
▪ While singer Neneh Cherry moved on to crossover fame, her fellow conspirators took a back seat.
▪ Zeus, though eternal, comes into being and moves on.
▪ The secondment provided a change and the chance to move on.
▪ He was apparently out of favor with the judges, some of whom had dropped subtle hints that Galindo should move on.
out
▪ Rabbits find them uncomfortable and they move out to warmer quarters.
▪ Various communities of the region saw the Negro residents move out en masse.
▪ He and Mum were moved out to the new estate.
▪ The Republican presidential campaign moved out of New Hampshire on Wednesday in a fog.
▪ Blackening the sky, they move out from Abbey Park in well defined flight lines to feeding grounds.
▪ Thirty years later, I am in academia myself and realize now that people are moved out of Department Chair positions regularly.
▪ And Dot saw something else alive and moving out there too, brown yet larger than a hare.
▪ Whites were moving out as blacks moved in.
over
▪ And that meant them moving over.
▪ If you enter characters within existing text, words to the right will move over and down to make room for them.
▪ He rode the rocking-horse, which moved over the lawn without effort.
▪ I did my job and I moved over to a job as a state policeman.
▪ To move over long distances the dredger has to be towed by a tug.
▪ He moved over to the window of his office and looked out.
▪ He took the wheel of the jeep himself, telling the driver to move over.
quickly
▪ On reaching the crossroads, we moved quickly to the right, and up the very dusty road leading to the village.
▪ People stopped and then quickly moved on.
▪ Armed with this information, Mr Centerman moved quickly.
▪ House members saw a need to move quickly to avoid having the legislation bottled up by possible impeachment proceedings.
▪ He may have to move quickly.
▪ They are heavy, smart trout, and they move quickly into the heavy water and riffles.
▪ After the passage of the Act through Parliament, events in Bedford moved quickly.
▪ The 18-year-old king moved quickly to establish rule under his personal control.
slowly
▪ Guy found his gaze moving slowly over Isabel as if her body held the answers to the questions in his mind.
▪ Despite the quick beginning, the effort moved slowly for much of 1980.
▪ Primo hears a sound that could be a car, miles from them, moving slowly through the city.
▪ Now he was moving slowly as the bark peeled back in a longer and longer strip.
▪ Penelope outlined their bodies together and began to move slowly, very slowly, closing her eyes.
▪ Cold dark-matter particles move slowly - hot ones move at nearly the speed of light.
▪ The starter whined, the rotors moved slowly, then the turbine caught.
■ NOUN
area
▪ Rapeman duly foundered - worldwide, it must be said - and then Steve moved into an area of similar controversy.
▪ But pretty soon, we lost the tunnels completely in the debris, so we gave up and moved to another area.
▪ He realized that he was following the pattern of the streets, moving into the poor area of World's End.
▪ Instead, proposals have involved moving him to his area of greatest expertise as public works director.
▪ Business was so bad that they moved to more lucrative areas before the shows had even finished.
▪ Blacks who moved into the area settled in a district called Mudtown.
▪ We have moved forward in this area, although there is still an under-representation of qualified social workers.
▪ In addition, the activities of firms moving into the area in response to gasfield opportunities are also being monitored.
direction
▪ Bilateral animals move in a constant direction in such a way that one end is the front and the other the back.
▪ But slowly they were moving in the right direction.
▪ Within some relationships, the two partners can begin to move in opposite directions.
▪ Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.
▪ This should make the model start to move in the direction which it is pointing or stop the rotation.
▪ In Jerusalem, things looked to be moving in that direction even without the settlers' help.
▪ Stabiliser A device to check lateral motion and maintain the foot moving in a forward direction.
▪ Johnson would often move in contradictory directions, yet he would usually achieve consensus.
house
▪ Since the 1991 explosion the Drumgooles and their three young children have moved to two different houses.
▪ It only really started when everybody began moving out of the house.
▪ His enquiry about my whereabouts was due to our having moved house.
▪ I spoke to a middle-aged woman in Sunderland who moved into her council house when it was new thirty years ago.
▪ Then he moved to a half way house for gay alcoholics.
▪ She is planning to move into the house on Monday from the home she rented in Eldon Street, Darlington.
▪ They moved into the three-bedroom house in February of that year and said they have enjoyed every day since.
stage
▪ He saw groups as moving through four key stages of development as follows.
▪ He further postulates that until each conflict is resolved positively, we can not move to the next stage or conflict.
▪ Cram wallflowers into containers now to be moved to centre stage in late spring.
▪ The proceedings now have moved to the stage of determining a penalty.
▪ Peasants tended to move onwards in short stages, so their progression across Siberia was not sudden.
▪ Some move through the stages slowly, while others seem to zip up across and over at a brisker pace.
▪ A woman was moving on stage, a woman wearing a red dress.
▪ Your career will have moved from an establishment stage into a maintenance stage.
■ VERB
begin
▪ It covers that period - she began it when they moved to Richmond.
▪ Have one student slowly tip the board up so that the objects begin to move.
▪ That model was discarded in the 60s when women began to move into spheres that had previously been restricted to men.
▪ Penelope outlined their bodies together and began to move slowly, very slowly, closing her eyes.
▪ It was also during this period that his political ideas began moving sharply to the right.
▪ Instead, Vinik began moving money into Treasury securities, according to a report released by Fidelity Investments.
▪ Gradually the crowd began to move.
▪ I felt Frank begin to move slowly inside me and I felt the doors to my body open.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God moves in a mysterious way/mysterious ways
a moving target
▪ As always, this is a moving target.
▪ At its best, Gramm-Rudman-Hollings is a game of how to master a moving target.
▪ Duration is a moving target as rates and portfolios change, though it is already used by many managers.
▪ Nobody hits a moving target and you can quote me.
▪ Only the top half of her body was visible, and she resembled a moving target on a shooting gallery.
false move/step
▪ A false step, a forgotten detail.
▪ And marriage, I should have thought, is a false step you must have been well warned against.
▪ Any false starts or false moves will result in error and the telltale bugs.
▪ Leicester are the sporting equivalent of those brave landmine engineers who operate in areas where one false move can destroy everything.
▪ No regrets, no hesitation; there were no false moves left in me.
▪ One false move in the conduct of the attack will spell certain doom for White.
▪ One false step and we would be down there too.
▪ Risking a false step in the bog, she sped over the path.
go/move downmarket
▪ The Opera House specialised in drama for nine years - and then went downmarket.
make the first move
▪ Everybody's waiting for the other person to make the first move.
▪ I'd always been attracted to her, but I was too shy to make the first move.
▪ Neither side is willing to make the first move in the trade talks.
▪ The employees made the first move to end the strike.
▪ And in the matter of seduction itself, once more it is the male who is expected to make the first move.
▪ And now Cambridge United, who recently sacked controversial manager John Beck, have made the first move.
▪ He had decided to do nothing further for the present and leave it to Berowne to make the first move.
▪ If they have upset you, perhaps they are hoping you will make the first move.
▪ She was damned if she was going to make the first move.
▪ Those weeks, not seeing him, wondering, too proud to make the first move.
▪ We suggest you make the first move.
▪ We were both trembling with desire, afraid to make the first move.
move heaven and earth
▪ Bishop Auckland have also moved heaven and earth to improve their standing.
▪ If you knew what I was doing you'd have moved heaven and earth to stop me.
▪ So together we moved heaven and earth to ensure, in a difficult year, that the necessary money was made available.
▪ We've all experienced it and most of us would move heaven and earth to avoid it.
move in/close in for the kill
move mountains
move/change/keep up with the times
▪ Motoring: Can R-R keep up with the times?
▪ The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times ... no karaoke here ... just conversation.
move/get into top gear
▪ Accelerate smartly so that you can get into top gear as quickly as possible.
▪ It was ready to move into top gear at very short notice.
▪ Meanwhile Pistol Packer was getting into top gear on the stands side, and Caro and Arlequino were not done with.
move/shift the goalposts
▪ It has been subtly shifting the goalposts of what can be done in and through art.
▪ The answer to failure and sin is not to move the goalposts but to repent and try again.
not move a muscle
▪ I didn't dare move a muscle. He would have shot me.
▪ I was so scared, I couldn't move a muscle.
▪ She hid behind the door, not moving a muscle.
▪ The performers didn't move a muscle.
▪ It suddenly occurred to them that he had not moved a muscle since they came in.
▪ They will not move a muscle for at least another month or two.
shift/move your arse
the moving spirit
▪ Rittall is regarded as the moving spirit behind the project.
▪ That bull had been the moving spirit of the herd, a figure rather of mythic than of material dimension.
when/as the spirit moves you
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Do they still live on Reighton Road?" "No, they've moved."
▪ Moving house can be extremely stressful.
▪ Airport authorities are moving fast to improve security following a series of bomb threats.
▪ Did you know that Karen's moving to the US in August?
▪ Don't move, there's a spider on your back.
▪ Every time I move I get a pain in my left shoulder.
▪ His dad was in the army, so they moved a lot as kids.
▪ I can hear someone moving around downstairs!
▪ I think that the trade agreement is moving in the right direction.
▪ I tried to open the door, but I couldn't move it an inch.
▪ If anyone wants to put in a bid on the property they'll have to move quickly.
▪ In her early years her family had moved from one town to another, and she had never felt settled anywhere.
▪ In the past year the leadership has moved to strengthen their control over the party.
▪ It's essential that these budget talks get moving.
▪ It took three men to move the piano.
▪ Many socialists were moving away from faith in revolution towards a fight for reform.
▪ My mother moved forward and grabbed my wrist.
▪ Neither side is willing to move on this issue.
▪ Once she's made up her mind, you can't move her.
▪ Police say that the investigation is moving slowly, and they are hoping that more witnesses will come forward.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A collection of firefighting crews moved to a primitive airstrip, a strip of grass amid the pines.
▪ After the war, Oberth moved to Heidelberg to study with the outstanding chemists and physicists there.
▪ He also earned a law degree before changing his name from Margulois to Merrick and moving to New York in 1939.
▪ His suit was disheveled, his shoes caked with mud; his hands moved abstractly before him.
▪ It may be difficult to move areas since many local authorities and some housing associations operate strict residence restrictions.
▪ More rabbits are likely to move in, more rabbits are bred and no area stays denuded for very long.
▪ Now I got to move and start all over.
▪ So, just as the statue was to be moved, the controversy heated up.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bold
▪ It is a bold move, since it throws into reverse one of Clinton's central election pledges.
▪ Lee wasted no time entering Maryland, the men being in high spirits as the bold move was made.
▪ In a particularly bold move, I decided to shave less often.
▪ Two years later, in 1994, he made perhaps the boldest move of his life.
▪ That would be a bold move indeed.
▪ As innocent as that sounded, it was a bold move.
▪ That first trip was a bold move.
false
▪ Any false starts or false moves will result in error and the telltale bugs.
▪ No regrets, no hesitation; there were no false moves left in me.
▪ One false move in the conduct of the attack will spell certain doom for White.
▪ Leicester are the sporting equivalent of those brave landmine engineers who operate in areas where one false move can destroy everything.
▪ From that day there was no appeal from the consequences of even one false move.
▪ A false move and the State would not hesitate to send him to the same grave as his father and grandfather.
▪ Then it happened, that one false move that a batsman never wants to make.
▪ He scarcely made a false move.
smart
▪ What is the smartest move you've ever made?
▪ Perhaps pretending to fall in love was merely a smart career move allowing you to diversify into pasturing.
▪ The smart move is to proceed according to Mr Punch's exclusive eight-point plan, as follows ... 1.
wise
▪ As it turned out, this rejection of Hopper's advances was the wisest career move Nicholson ever made.
▪ This wise move was not made because of treaties.
▪ There were many more than two hundred behind that large banner, so was it the wisest move?
▪ But the doctor decided to cover the full investment for $ 550, 000, a wise move.
▪ I knew it wouldn't be a wise move for me.
▪ Killing this guy was not a wise move.
▪ Did I think it would be a wise move or should she try to persuade Meredith to keep her on for Christmas?
▪ The wisest move at this point would be to begin reading the first page.
■ NOUN
career
▪ As it turned out, this rejection of Hopper's advances was the wisest career move Nicholson ever made.
▪ The structural load which exists within seemingly minor career moves or internal transfers around the force is enormous.
▪ And it could so easily have been a suicidal career move.
▪ This may be particularly beneficial for those making a major career move within an organisation.
▪ Perhaps pretending to fall in love was merely a smart career move allowing you to diversify into pasturing.
▪ At twenty-five she had married a colonel, a career move, and divorced him three years later.
▪ Has a colleague just made an interesting career move?
■ VERB
follow
▪ His strength drew her to him like a magnet, until her eyes followed his every move.
▪ I've been following every move he's made outside the walls these last ten days.
▪ The smaller rises from the largest two mortgage lenders will deter other societies from following the Yorkshire's move.
▪ The reflection tries to follow every move.
make
▪ Mr Coleridge inherits a market that has made some sensible moves to improve its competitive edge.
▪ Most market participants were waiting for January before making new moves.
▪ And now Cambridge United, who recently sacked controversial manager John Beck, have made the first move.
▪ He showed his empty hands, made a move, and displayed a pair of glass earrings.
▪ Until recently, the Tories were in power, making such a move impossible.
▪ He was not responding to pressure on himself in making the move.
▪ To break the impasse, he made a sudden threatening move forward.
watch
▪ As he examined the yoyo, he could hear the child breathing beside him, watching his every move.
▪ We don't realise that when we connect to the internet from home, some one may be watching our every move.
▪ With his huge head, huge eyebrows, he watched our every move in the building.
▪ Her cub followed, watching her every move.
welcome
▪ Universities and colleges welcomed the move, seeing it as victory for their long-running campaign to reduce the inspection burden.
▪ Wilmut said he would welcome any moves toward an international agreement to prohibit such attempts.
▪ The international profession has welcomed the move.
▪ They no doubt that conservation groups would welcome the move.
▪ Local councillor Peter Shephard, who led the campaign, has welcomed the positive moves to solve the problem.
▪ Environmentalists welcomed the move, claiming that some fishermen in Cornwall and the South-West were disguising the true extent of the problem.
▪ The warden of Sarah's refuge has welcomed the move.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God moves in a mysterious way/mysterious ways
a moving target
▪ As always, this is a moving target.
▪ At its best, Gramm-Rudman-Hollings is a game of how to master a moving target.
▪ Duration is a moving target as rates and portfolios change, though it is already used by many managers.
▪ Nobody hits a moving target and you can quote me.
▪ Only the top half of her body was visible, and she resembled a moving target on a shooting gallery.
false move/step
▪ A false step, a forgotten detail.
▪ And marriage, I should have thought, is a false step you must have been well warned against.
▪ Any false starts or false moves will result in error and the telltale bugs.
▪ Leicester are the sporting equivalent of those brave landmine engineers who operate in areas where one false move can destroy everything.
▪ No regrets, no hesitation; there were no false moves left in me.
▪ One false move in the conduct of the attack will spell certain doom for White.
▪ One false step and we would be down there too.
▪ Risking a false step in the bog, she sped over the path.
go/move downmarket
▪ The Opera House specialised in drama for nine years - and then went downmarket.
make the first move
▪ Everybody's waiting for the other person to make the first move.
▪ I'd always been attracted to her, but I was too shy to make the first move.
▪ Neither side is willing to make the first move in the trade talks.
▪ The employees made the first move to end the strike.
▪ And in the matter of seduction itself, once more it is the male who is expected to make the first move.
▪ And now Cambridge United, who recently sacked controversial manager John Beck, have made the first move.
▪ He had decided to do nothing further for the present and leave it to Berowne to make the first move.
▪ If they have upset you, perhaps they are hoping you will make the first move.
▪ She was damned if she was going to make the first move.
▪ Those weeks, not seeing him, wondering, too proud to make the first move.
▪ We suggest you make the first move.
▪ We were both trembling with desire, afraid to make the first move.
move heaven and earth
▪ Bishop Auckland have also moved heaven and earth to improve their standing.
▪ If you knew what I was doing you'd have moved heaven and earth to stop me.
▪ So together we moved heaven and earth to ensure, in a difficult year, that the necessary money was made available.
▪ We've all experienced it and most of us would move heaven and earth to avoid it.
move in/close in for the kill
move mountains
move/change/keep up with the times
▪ Motoring: Can R-R keep up with the times?
▪ The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times ... no karaoke here ... just conversation.
move/get into top gear
▪ Accelerate smartly so that you can get into top gear as quickly as possible.
▪ It was ready to move into top gear at very short notice.
▪ Meanwhile Pistol Packer was getting into top gear on the stands side, and Caro and Arlequino were not done with.
move/shift the goalposts
▪ It has been subtly shifting the goalposts of what can be done in and through art.
▪ The answer to failure and sin is not to move the goalposts but to repent and try again.
shift/move your arse
the moving spirit
▪ Rittall is regarded as the moving spirit behind the project.
▪ That bull had been the moving spirit of the herd, a figure rather of mythic than of material dimension.
when/as the spirit moves you
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His first move after taking office was to appoint four communists to his cabinet.
▪ It's probably time to think about a move to a new job.
▪ It's your move.
▪ Let's face it -- going from an academic life to the world of business is never an easy move.
▪ Planners hope to encourage the move towards increased use of public transport.
▪ Public sector unions are likely to oppose Blair's move away from government investment in health and transport.
▪ The move took three days.
▪ The coach has taught the players some basic defensive moves.
▪ The management have offered less money than we wanted so what's our next move?
▪ The UN's latest move to stop the fighting has ended in failure.
▪ The United Nations was supposed to supervise the move to independence.
▪ There is a move towards greater equality for women in the workplace.
▪ This picture marks the move to the big screen of some of our best television comedians.
▪ Three board members have opposed these moves.
▪ What will his next move be?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A move further towards the end-user is being forged by linking the chlorine, hypochlorite and electrochemical technology businesses.
▪ He added that a statement was expected later this week on moves to secure the colliery's financial position.
▪ He reflected that there was very rarely logic in these moves, or if there was he could not 115 understand it.
▪ In the United States during the period we are discussing there were powerful moves for the professionalisation of sociology and social science.
▪ It is merely that Gandhi was ready for a back-to-nature move and a passage in Ruskin crystallized his determination.
▪ The move completed, Paige sank to the ground and rested her head back against the rising bulk of a tree.
▪ The move was announced by Norman Lamont towards the end of his tenure of the Chancellorship.
▪ The first 25 metres are 8a+, serving to sap strength and stamina for the harder moves to come.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Move

Move \Move\ (m[=oo]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moved (m[=oo]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Moving.] [OE. moven, OF. moveir, F. mouvoir, L. movere; cf. Gr. 'amei`bein to change, exchange, go in or out, quit, Skr. m[=i]v, p. p. m[=u]ta, to move, push. Cf. Emotion, Mew to molt, Mob, Mutable, Mutiny.]

  1. 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; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.

  2. (Chess, Checkers, etc.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another on a playing board, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.

  3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

    Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.
    --Knolles.

    No female arts his mind could move.
    --Dryden.

  4. To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.
    --Shak.

    When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them.
    --Matt. ix. 36.

    [The use of images] in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror.
    --Felton.

  5. To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.

    Let me but move one question to your daughter.
    --Shak.

    They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects.
    --Hayward.

  6. To apply to, as for aid. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Syn: To stir; agitate; trouble; affect; persuade; influence; actuate; impel; rouse; prompt; instigate; incite; induce; incline; propose; offer.

Move

Move \Move\, v. i.

  1. To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.

    The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
    --Ps. xviii. 7.

    On the green bank I sat and listened long, . . . Nor till her lay was ended could I move.
    --Dryden.

  2. To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.

  3. To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.

  4. (Chess, Checkers, etc.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.

Move

Move \Move\, n.

  1. The act of moving; a movement.

  2. (Chess, Checkers, etc.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game; also, the opportunity or obligation to so move a piece; one's turn; as, you can only borrow from the bank in Monopoly when it's your move.

  3. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. To make a move.

    1. To take some action toward a goal, usually one involving interaction with other people.

    2. To move a piece, as in a game.

      To be on the move, to bustle or stir about. [Colloq.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
move

mid-15c., "proposal," from move (v.). From 1650s in the gaming sense. Meaning "act of moving" is from 1827. Phrase on the move "in the process of going from one place to another" is from 1796; get a move on "hurry up" is Americal English colloquial from 1888 (also, and perhaps originally, get a move on you).

move

late 13c., from Anglo-French mover, Old French movoir "to move, get moving, set out; set in motion; introduce" (Modern French mouvoir), from Latin movere "move, set in motion; remove; disturb" (past participle motus, frequentative motare), from PIE root *meue- "to push away" (cognates: Sanskrit kama-muta "moved by love" and probably mivati "pushes, moves;" Lithuanian mauti "push on;" Greek ameusasthai "to surpass," amyno "push away").\n

\nIntransitive sense developed in Old French and came thence to English, though it now is rare in French. Meaning "to affect with emotion" is from c.1300; that of "to prompt or impel toward some action" is from late 14c. Sense of "to change one's place of residence" is from 1707. Meaning "to propose (something) in an assembly, etc.," is first attested mid-15c. Related: Moved; moving.

Wiktionary
move

n. 1 The act of moving; a movement. 2 An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. 3 A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. 4 The event of changing one's residence. 5 A change in strategy. 6 A transfer, a change from one employer to another. 7 (context board games English) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. 2 (context intransitive English) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter. 3 (senseid en to change residence)(context intransitive English) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. 4 (context intransitive chess and other games English) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game. 5 (context transitive ergative English) 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; to impel; to stir. 6 (context transitive chess English) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. 7 (context transitive English) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. 8 (context transitive English) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite, as an emotion. 9 (context transitive English) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn. 10 (context transitive obsolete English) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint). 11 (context transitive obsolete English) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to. 12 (context transitive obsolete English) To apply to, as for aid.

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WordNet
move

  1. v. change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "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" [syn: travel, go, locomote] [ant: stay in place]

  2. cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" [syn: displace]

  3. move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" [ant: stand still]

  4. change residence, affiliation, or place of employment; "We moved from Idaho to Nebraska"; "The basketball player moved from one team to another" [ant: stay]

  5. follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels" [syn: go, proceed]

  6. be in a state of action; "she is always moving" [syn: be active] [ant: rest]

  7. go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy"

  8. perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you 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" [syn: act] [ant: refrain]

  9. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" [syn: affect, impress, strike]

  10. give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, prompt, incite]

  11. arouse sympathy or compassion in; "Her fate moved us all"

  12. dispose of by selling; "The chairman of the company told the salesmen to move the computers"

  13. progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting" [syn: go, run]

  14. live one's life in a specified environment; "she moves in certain circles only"

  15. have a turn; make one's move in a game; "Can I go now?" [syn: go]

  16. propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting [syn: make a motion]

move

  1. n. the act of deciding to do something; "he didn't make a move to help"; "his first move was to hire a lawyer"

  2. the act of changing your residence or place of business; "they say that three moves equal one fire" [syn: relocation]

  3. 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, movement, motility]

  4. 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, movement]

  5. (game) a player's turn to move a piece or take some other permitted action

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Wikipedia
Möve

Möve or Moeve may refer to:

  • Möve 101, an Austrian built microcar
  • Möve (ship, 1939), a former passenger ship on Lake Zurich, Switzerland
  • SMS Möwe, a merchant raider of the Imperial German Navy which operated against Allied shipping during World War I.
Move (Freak Kitchen album)

Move is the fifth full-length studio album CD by progressive metal band Freak Kitchen. As the band defines this album: "More metal, more experimental, more fascinating… will please the fans and will without any possible doubt convert the newcomers." It's also their new line-up's debut.

Move features faster and heavier songs than previous albums, but with a similar sense of melody.

Christer Örtefors sings the lead vocals on the track Razor Flowers.

Move (Japanese band)

Move (styled as M.O.V.E or m.o.v.e, and previously as move) was a Japanese electronic band. The group consisted of yuri on vocals and motsu performing the rapping. t-kimura (producer) left the band in 2008.

Move (The Move album)

Move is the eponymous debut album by The Move, released on the Regal Zonophone label. The only one which was recorded by the group’s initial line-up before bassist Ace Kefford left, it includes both sides of their third and fourth singles ("Flowers in the Rain" and "Fire Brigade"). "Flowers in the Rain" was the first ever song played on Radio 1 in September 1967 by Tony Blackburn.

Move (company)

Move, Inc, is a real estate web site, which operates the Move Network of real estate web sites for consumers and real estate professionals. The Move Network of web sites captures more than 30 million monthly visitors. The headquarters for Move, Inc. is in Santa Clara, California. Move, Inc. maintains offices in New York City, Scottsdale, Arizona, Westlake Village, California and Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.

Move (CSS song)

"Move" is a single by CSS, it is the third released from the album Donkey. It was released on October 13, 2008. It was remixed by Cut Copy and Frankmusik. The single failed to chart everywhere, except for Italy. It is featured in the forever 21 playlist. A remix of the song was used for a jazz routine on So You Think You Can Dance season 5, which was performed by Janette Manrana and Evan Kasprzak, and later season 8 for a solo by jazz dancer Missy Morelli.

Move (Thousand Foot Krutch song)

"Move" is the second single from Thousand Foot Krutch's third studio album, The Art of Breaking. Although "Move" received less Christian radio play than the first single, "Absolute", it did receive more mainstream radio play than "Absolute"; because of this, "Move" received a music video. "Move" charted at No. 16 on the Billboard charts.

Move (Moby song)

"Move" (sometimes subtitled "You Make Me Feel So Good") is a song by American electronica musician Moby. It was his first release on Mute Records in the UK and on Elektra Records in the U.S. Released in September 1993, it hit number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and number 21 on the UK Singles Chart.

" All That I Need Is to Be Loved" was released as a single, and later included (in a different version) on Everything Is Wrong (1995). Remixes of "Move" was featured on the Everything Is Wrong remix album (1996).

It was released as a non-album EP and served as Moby's sixth single release overall. "Move" was engineered by Curt Frasca.

Move (command)

In computing, move is a command in various DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows command line interpreters ( shells) such as [[COMMAND.COM]], [[cmd.exe]], 4DOS/ 4NT and Windows PowerShell. It is used to move one or more files or directories from one place to another. The original file is deleted, and the new file may have the same or a different name. It is analogous to the Unix [[mv]] command.

In Windows PowerShell, move is a predefined command alias for the Move-Item Cmdlet which basically serves the same purpose.

Move (Q-Tip song)

"Move" is the second single released by American rapper/producer Q-Tip for his album The Renaissance. It samples " Dancing Machine" by The Jackson 5.

Move (If You Wanna)

"Move (If You Wanna)" is the official first single from Mims' second studio album, Guilt.. The song was released to radio in October 2008.

The song was featured in an episode of From G's to Gents. This song was also featured in Step Up 3D (soundtrack). The album was released on 27 July 2010.

The music video, directed by Keith Schofield, was released on his official YouTube page on February 14, 2009 and premiered on 106 & Park on February 27.

Following accusations of copying the rapping style for Move (If You Wanna) from Philadelphia rapper Gillie Da Kid, Mims stated he never met Gillie and was not trying to start beef with anyone. Mims and Gillie would later record the remix for Move (If You Wanna) together.

Move (1970 film)

Move is a 1970 comedy film starring Elliott Gould, Paula Prentiss and Geneviève Waïte, and directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was written by Joel Lieber and Stanley Hart, adapted from a novel by Lieber.

Move (Third Day album)

Move is the tenth studio album by Christian rock band Third Day. Released on October 19, 2010, the album was the band's first after guitarist Brad Avery left Third Day. The band wanted the album to be a departure from the modern rock stylings of Revelation (2008), intending to show more of their southern rock roots. Third Day chose to work with producer Paul Moak on the album and recorded it at their own studio, feeling it offered them more creative freedom. Primarily a southern rock album, Move also has significant influence from gospel music.

Move received positive reviews from music critics, many of whom praised the album's southern rock sound. It was nominated for multiple awards at the 42nd GMA Dove Awards, winning in the Recorded Music Packaging of the Year category. It sold 37,000 copies in its first week of release, debuting at number nine on the Billboard 200, number one on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, and number three on the Billboard Rock Albums chart. In the United States, it ranked as the twenty-third best-selling Christian Album of 2010 and the fifth best-selling Christian Album of 2011. The album's four singles met with varying success at Christian radio, all of them appearing on the Billboard Christian Songs chart.

Move (Earl Klugh album)

Move is the 17th studio album by Earl Klugh released in 1994.

Move (Yoshida Brothers album)

Move is an album by the Japanese shamisen duo the Yoshida Brothers, originally released in 2000.

Move (4L song)

"Move" is a song by South Korean girl group 4L. It was released as a single on August 4, 2014 through Jade Contents Media and A&G Modes.

Move (Hiromi album)

Move is the second album from Hiromi Uehara's Trio Project featuring bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips.

Move (EP)

Move is the fifth EP by South Korean boy band BtoB. It was released on September 29, 2014, consisting a total of 5 tracks and a bonus track with "You're So Fly" as title track and promotional single of the album.

Move (The Original Sins album)

Move is the fourth studio album by garage rock band The Original Sins, released in early 1992 through Psonik Records. The album was intended to be a break into mainstream music for the band, but the record sold poorly among its initial release. The album's production duties were credited to Peter Buck, frontman of punk rock band R.E.M., but most of the production was actually done by John Keane.

After the album's release, Dave Ferrarra left the group, who would not come back until the release of Suburban Primitive. He would be replaced with drummer Seth Baer.

Move (MercyMe song)

"Move" is a song by Christian rock band MercyMe. Written by MercyMe and Dan Muckala, "Move" is a dance-rock song with a sound similar to that of pop rock band Maroon 5. The theme of the song's lyrics is perseverance through adversity. Released on May 23, 2011 as the third single from MercyMe's 2010 album The Generous Mr. Lovewell, "Move" was received with positive critical reviews, especially for the arrangement of the song. "Move" attained success as a single, peaking atop Billboard magazine's Christian Songs, Hot Christian AC, and Christian AC Indicator charts, as well as at No. 6 on the Billboard Christian CHR chart and No. 20 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.

Move (Little Mix song)

"Move" is a song by British girl group Little Mix. It was released as the lead single from their second studio album, Salute (2013). It was co-written by the group with Maegan Cottone and Nathan Duvall, and produced by the latter. An R&B song, that moves away from Little Mix's previous melody-led ventures, featuring more quirky sounds with bass synth. The girl band stated that the song is about when a boy on the dance floor is "acting too cool for school" and they would like him to move. The single was made available for pre-ordering on iTunes on the same day as its radio impact without the official single artwork.

The single received its first airplay in the United Kingdom on 23 September 2013 and was released for digital download on 3 November 2013, a week before the release of Salute in that country. It debuted and peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart.

Move (Luke Bryan song)

"Move" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Luke Bryan for his fifth studio album, Kill the Lights (2015). It was serviced to American country radio on July 25, 2016 as the album's fifth official single.

Move (2012 film)

Move is a 2012 German comedy film directed by Dietrich Brüggemann.

Move (electronics store)

Move was an Australia chain of fashion electronics stores, owned by Dick Smith Electronics. The first store opened at Emporium Melbourne on April 16, 2014.

The stores closed in 2016 after Dick Smith Electronics entered receivership.

Move (software)

Move is a geologic modelling software released by Midland Valley in September 2008.

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Usage examples of "move".

But the dream moved on and she saw an army marching, cities ablaze, thousands slain.

He watched as the first shark made a pass at Abo, who moved out of its way like a bullfighter.

Whatever be the inequality in the hardness of the materials of which the rock consists, even in the case of pudding-stone, the surface is abraded so evenly as to leave the impression that a rigid rasp has moved over all the undulations of the land, advancing in one and the same direction and levelling all before it.

She grasped his shoulders then, moving her legs, reveling in the abrasive feel of his hair roughened skin against the softness of her thighs.

When the tentacles do not begin moving for a much longer time, namely, from half an hour to three or four hours, the particles have been slowly brought into contact with the glands, either by the secretion being absorbed by the particles or by its gradual spreading over them, together with its consequent quicker evaporation.

The Wests clearly made sure Carol Ann Cooper could neither move nor cry out when they abused her.

But there can be no doubt that the Wests made sure she could neither move nor cry out when they abused her.

Grounders never got used to the fact that in orbit, you decelerated by firing your rockets to move into a higher, slower orbit, and accelerated by using your retros to drop into a lower, faster orbit.

The bigger the acceleration that the drives produce, the closer to the disk we move the living-capsule up the central column here.

We sat there, furious and not looking at each other, as the acceleration was slowly throttled back and the capsule moved away from the disk to resume its free-flight position two hundred and fifty meters behind it.

As he said the last words my converter rose, and went to the window to dry his tears, I felt deeply moved, anal full of admiration for the virtue of De la Haye and of his pupil, who, to save his soul, had placed himself under the hard necessity of accepting alms.

She ached for him to move away from her, panic surging over her as he pressed the cloth to her damp jeans.

There was not an archer in Achar who could better them now, Belial mused, as he watched them practice hitting moving targets while at the gallop.

No doubt the eternally self-identical may have potentiality and be self-led to self-realization, but even in this case the being considered as actualized is of higher order than the being considered as merely capable of actualization and moving towards a desired Term.

Moving very quickly I went to the bench on which was mounted the acuity tester and started to comply.