motion

motion is a 6-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. Power of, or capacity for, motion.
3. noun. Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
4. noun. Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
5. noun. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
6. noun. A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
9. noun. A puppet show or puppet.
10. intransitive verb. To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
11. intransitive verb. To make proposal; to offer plans.
12. transitive verb. To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
13. transitive verb. To propose; to move.
14. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: move, movement

15. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: motility, move, movement

16. noun. the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

    Synonyms: gesture

17. noun. a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote

    "he made a motion to adjourn"

    "she called for the question"

    Synonyms: question

18. noun. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

    Synonyms: movement

19. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: movement

20. noun. a state of change

    "they were in a state of steady motion"

21. verb. show, express or direct through movement

    "He gestured his desire to leave"

    Synonyms: gesticulate, gesture

Synonyms

move, movement, motility, gesture, question, gesticulate

Common word forms

motions, motional, motioned, motioner, motioning, motionable, motionless

Words from these letters

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