The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moving \Mov"ing\, a.
Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power.
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Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal.
I sang an old moving story.
--Coleridge.Moving force (Mech.), a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body.
Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant ( Desmodium gyrans); -- so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion.
Usage examples of "moving force".
Of course, for Lord Artos's marvelous plan of a swift-moving force to succeed, it would be five or six years before this year's crop of foals were ready for battle.
As the moving force behind Iraq's WMD programs since the end of the Iran-Iraq War and a member of Qusayy's concealment committee, Hussein Kamel also knew all about Saddam's shell game with the U.
The one good thing that came from _Shadow_ rearing its confusing head in Wien was that I met a lot of important people who, again assuming I'd been the moving force behind the play, began to give me writing assignments as soon as they heard I wanted to settle down there.
It turns out that Colonel Murray Templeton has been the moving force behind the recommendation and that the US Army has also made a submission to the Australian Army from US Marine Captain Elijah Combustible Jones.
Napoleon Bonaparte had been one of the original members, perhaps the most important one and the moving force behind the forming of the organization.