Word Meanings - MOTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
Additional info about word: MOTION
An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest. Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms. Milton. 2. Power of, or capacity for, motion. Devoid of sense and motion. Milton. 3. Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east. In our proper motion we ascend. Milton. 4. Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts. This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion. Dr. H. More. 5. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity. Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. South. 6. A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn. Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOTION)
- Drift
- Tendency
- direction
- motion
- tenor
- meaning
- purport
- object
- intention
- purpose
- scope
- aim
- result
- issue
- conclusion
- end
- course
- Flux
- Flow
- progression
- change
- substitution
- transmutation
- Movement
- Motion
- move
- change of place
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MOTION)
- Conserve
- retain
- stabilitate
- fix
- clinch
- stand
- endure
- last
- hold
- Chance
- risk
- hazard
- revoke
- Miscalculate
- venture
- stake
- Originate
- arise
- precede
- spring
- commence
- start
- begin
Related words: (words related to MOTION)
- CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - SPREADINGLY
, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - TRANSMUTATIONIST
One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species. - REVOKER
One who revokes. - INTENTIONALITY
The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge. - OBJECTIVENESS
Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale - SPRINGBOARD
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. - SPRINGE
A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak. - DRIFTBOLT
A bolt for driving out other bolts. - SPRINGAL
An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring. - SCOPELINE
Scopeloid. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - PURPORTLESS
Without purport or meaning. - VENTURESOME
Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n. - SPRINT
To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym: - STARTLINGLY
In a startling manner. - CHANGEFUL
Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n. - MOTIONER
One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - DISVENTURE
A disadventure. Shelton. - HAEMATOSCOPE
A hæmoscope. - MISDEMEAN
To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self. - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - LACTOSCOPE
An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity. - METEOROSCOPE
An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - MISCONCLUSION
An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall. - BYSTANDER
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.