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Move

MOVE, v.t. moov. [L. moveo.]
1. To impel; to carry, convey or draw from one place to another; to cause to change place or posture in any manner or by any means. The wind moves a ship; the cartman moves goods; the horse moves a cart or carriage. Mere matter cannot move itself. Machines are moved by springs, weights, or force applied.
2. To excite into action; to affect; to agitate; to rouse; as, to move the passions.
3. To cause to act or determine; as, to move the will.
4. To persuade; to prevail on; to excite from a state of rest or indifference.
Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.
But when no female arts his mind could move,
She turn'd to furious hate her impious love.
5. To excite tenderness, pity or grief in the heart; to affect; to touch pathetically; to excite feeling in.
The use of images in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror.
When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them--Mat 9.
6. To make angry; to provoke; to irritate.
7. To excite tumult or commotion.
When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them. Ruth 1. Mat 21.
8. To influence or incite by secret agency.
God moved them to depart from him. 2 Chr 18. 2 Pet 1.
9. To shake; to agitate.
The kingdoms were moved. Psa 46. Jer 49.
10. To propose; to offer for consideration and determination; as, to move a resolution in a deliberative assembly.
11. To propose; to recommend.
They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects.
12. To prompt; to incite; to instigate. Acts 17.
MOVE, v.i. To change place or posture; to stir; to pass or go in any manner or direction from one place or part of space to another. The planets move in their orbits; the earth moves on its axis; a ship moves at a certain rate an hour. We move by walking, running or turning; animals move by creeping, swimming or flying.
On the green bank I sat and listened long,
Nor till her lay was ended could I move.
1. To have action.
In him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts 17.
2. To have the power of action.
Every moving thing that liveth, shall be meat for you.
Gen 9.
3. To walk.
He moves with manly grace.
4. To march. The army moved and took a position behind a wood.
5. To tremble; to shake.
The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. Psa 18.
6. To change residence. Men move with their families from one house, town or state to another.
MOVE, n. The act of moving; the act of transferring from place to place, as in chess.
move appears in definitions for these words:
Accede Accelerate Acceleration Act Action Active Actuate Adagio Adjourn Admove Advance Advanced Affect Affected Affecting Agile Agitate Agitated Agitation Ahead Air Alarm-watch Alive All-fours Allegretto Allegro Allemand Amble Amove Amphisben Amplitude Andante Animal-flower Antecedent Appetence Approach Arise Ascend Aspen Attract Author Automation Axinomancy Axis Back Backed Backwards Ball Ballet Barrator Bear Beat Before Being Bell Bestir Bicker Blow Blunder Boat Boree Bound Brandish Brave Braved Bridge Brow Brown Brush Budge Budger By Caliber Canter Canzone Car Caracol Carding-machine Career Casting-vote Cause Center Check Check-mate Chime Circle Circuit Circulate Circumvolved Clack Clap Cleve Clock Clock-work Clog Close Come Commigrate Compass Compassionate Conceivable Concord Concourse Consideration Constat Count-wheel Counter-movement Courses Crawl Creep Creeper Crepitation Cross Current Dance Dandiprat Deaf Declaim Decline Delay Deltoid Depart Descend Devolve Differ Direct Direction Disdain Disjunctive Dislocate Dispense Disperse Disport Disturb Disturbed Downwards Drag Draw Drawn Drive Driven Driver Drops Easily Easterly Easy Ecliptic Eddish Edge Electromotor Elliptic Elongate Emmove Emotion Empassion Enter Entered Equability Equinoctial Escapement Excitement Exciter Exercise Exorable Expedite Extrinsic Eyestring Fall Fan Fan-light Fare Fast Feebly Feel Feeling Fetch Fidge Filatory Firm Fit Flabby Flap Fleet Flickering Flirt Flit Float Floating-bridge Flounce Flounder Flourish Flow Fluctuate Fluid Fluidity Flutter Fly Follow Follower For Forward Fowl Friction Fridge Galeas Galiot Gallop Gesture Gimmer Gin Give Glide Glutton Go Goad Graze Grind Grinder Grovel Handmill Hang Hard Hare Harmony Harpsichord Hasted Hastened Hauled Heart Heave Heavily Heaviness Herring Hie Hit Hobble Hoist Hold Hooting Horseboat Hover Huddle Hurry Hurtle Immobility Immovability Immovable Immovably Impassion Impel Impelled Impenetrable Impersuasible Impregnable Imprison Inactive Incentive Incite Incited Incitement Inciter Incumbent Indignation Indissolubly Inert Inertitude Inertness Inexorable Influence Influenced Influentially Insensibility Insinuate Instigator Instinct Insusceptible Intercede Interested Involve Irremovable Jar Jenny Jog Jogger Kedge Keep Labor Ladle Lag Lagger Lanch Larghetto Lean Leap Leeway Librate Lock Log Lope Loyal Luff Lug Machinery Make Manage Manageable Maneuver Maneuvered Manly Marbled-hearted March Marching Mechanically Medium Melody Mercenary Mill Mind-stricken Minuet Mire Mobile Mobility Mold-warp Moment Motion Motioner Motive Motor Movable Movably Move Moveless Movement Movent Mover Moving Muscle Navy Nestle Nor Object Oculist Of On Once Onward Operation Orb Orrery Oscillate Outwing Overleap Overshot Pace Palpitate Particular Pass Passion Passionate Path Periscian Persuasion Pitching Planetarium Play Plodding Pneumatic Point Pointel Polonoise Port Pour Power Prance Precipitation Press Pression Presto Procede Proceeding Progress Promote Prompt Prompted Provoke Puff Pull Puppet Puppet-show Put Quake Quaver Queach Quick Quicken Quicksand Quit Quob Quodlibetical Race Rack Rage Ramble Rapids Ready Rear Recede Recoil Reel Regulator Remote Remove Repass Reptile Resolution Resort Respect Rest Restif Restifness Resting Retreat Retrograde Revel Revolution Rhythmus Riggle Riot Rise Roam Rock Rocked Roll Rolled Rough Round Rove Rub Rule Ruling Run Rush Sail Sailing Scate Scope Scrabble Scramble Secede Second Seconder Seer-wood Self-moved Sensible Serpent Set Shake Shaker Sheer Shift Shog Shoot Shove Shuffle Shuffled Sickle Sidle Signal Skate Sled Sledge Sleigh Slide Sling Slip Slug Sluggish Sluggishness Snatch Snuggle Solid Speed Spin Sprawl Spring Spy Stability Stable Stagger Stagnate Stale Start Starter Startle Startled State Stationary Stealthy Steddiness Steddy Steer Steerage-way Step Stepping Stern-way Stir Stirred Stop Stopping Stream Strength Strike Stubborn Sway Sweep Swerve Swiftness Swim Swing Swinge T Tacet Take Tear Telegraph Telegraphic Tend Tending Testudo Through Ticklish Tide-mill Time Tinkle Toss Touch Touchingly Toward Trave Traverse Treddle Troll Trot Trouble Trundle-bed Tumultuation Turn Turned Turret Twirl Unactuated Unaffected Unaffecting Undershot Undisturbed Undulate Uninfluenced Unmovable Unmoved Unpathetic Unsettle Unshaken Untouched Untroubled Unwieldiness Unwieldy Use Vacillate Velocity Veneration Vertigo Vibrant Vibrated Vibration Virtue Visit Vitally Volt Voluntarily Wabble Waddle Wade Waft Wag Waggle Wagon Walk Wallow Wanton Warp Warped Wash Watch Water-engine Water-mill Water-wheel Wave Waved Waver Way Wayward Wheel Wheel-barrow Wheel-carriage Wheel-wright Wheeling Whip Whirl Whirl-bat Whirlpool Whisk Whitewood Why Wind Wind-pump Windy Wing Work Worked Working Wriggle Year

 

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