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MOVING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion
Example:
she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter
Classified under:
Similar:
affecting; poignant; touching (arousing affect)
haunting (having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect)
heartwarming (causing gladness and pleasure)
soul-stirring; stirring (exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions)
Also:
emotional (of more than usual emotion)
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
stimulating (rousing or quickening activity or the senses)
Antonym:
unmoving (not arousing emotions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In motion
Example:
the moving parts of the machine
Classified under:
Similar:
vibratory (moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down)
wiggly; wriggling; wriggly; writhing (moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion)
restless (ceaselessly in motion)
mobile (having transportation available)
kinetic (characterized by motion)
aflare; flaring (streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air)
fast-flying; flying (moving swiftly)
blown (being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor)
awheel (traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g.)
automotive; self-propelled; self-propelling (containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement)
oncoming (moving toward one)
ahorse; ahorseback (traveling on horseback)
afoot (traveling by foot)
Also:
mobile (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place))
Attribute:
motion (a state of change)
Antonym:
nonmoving (not in motion)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion
Example:
Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or 'the movies'
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
animated (made to appear to move as living creatures do)
Antonym:
still (used of pictures; of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion; or representing objects not capable of motion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb move
Context examples:
A tool for moving individual molecules or nanoscale objects, such as an atomic force microscope.
(Nanomanipulator, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
And then, one night, Matt, reading to himself with moving lips and mumbled sounds, was startled by a low whine from White Fang.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The process of moving proteins from one cellular compartment to another by various sorting and transport mechanisms such as gated transport, protein translocation, and vesicular transport.
(Intracellular Protein Transport, NCI Thesaurus)
Moving or capable of moving readily.
(Mobile, NCI Thesaurus)
It was moving down the beach toward the water.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
As we approached it I heard the sharp rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving about.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Meanwhile, Mars has been moving through your solar fourth house of home, so the emphasis on home has been very strong, and that trend will continue to November 18.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Ediacaran organisms do not appear to have mouths, organs or means of moving, so they are thought to have absorbed nutrients from the water around them.
(Why life on Earth first got big, University of Cambridge)
Although many stellar siblings may form together in tight clusters, stars are always moving, and as they grow older they tend to move farther and farther apart.
(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)
This unusual object - for now designated A/2017 U1 - is less than a quarter-mile (400 meters) in diameter and is moving remarkably fast.
(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)
