What is movement?

  • (noun): The act of changing location from one place to another.
    Example: "The movement of people from the farms to the cities"
    Synonyms: motion, move
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on movement, movements:

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
... American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement ... York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States ... Unlike many of those involved in the women's rights movement, Stanton addressed various issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights ...
Zionist Youth Movement - Modern Movements
... Zionist youth movements, both in Israel and the diaspora, continue to play a large role in community organisation, Jewish education, welfare, politics and activism ... While upholding and adjusting their individual movement ideologies, diaspora movements commonly idealise Jewish continuity and identity in opposition to cultural assimilation ... Movements generally focus on education for school-age youths, who are known as chanichim (Hebrew for educatees singular chanich/a), approximately aged 8 to 18 ...
Turners
... A German gymnastic movement was started by Turnvater (turners' father) Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in the early 19th century when Germany was occupied by Napoleon ... The Turner movement in Germany was generally liberal in nature, and many Turners took part in the Revolution of 1848 ... After its defeat, the movement was suppressed and many Turners left Germany, some emigrating to the United States ...
Globalization - Support and Criticism - Critiques - Anti-globalization Movement
... Main article Anti-globalization movement Anti-globalization, or counter-globalisation, consists of a number of criticisms of globalization but, in general, is critical of the ... The movement is also commonly referred to as the alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement ... note the term is vague "anti-globalization movement" activities may include attempts to demonstrate sovereignty, practice local democratic decision-making, or restrict the international transfer of ...
Vorticism
... an offshoot of Cubism, was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century ... The movement was announced in 1914 in the first issue of BLAST, which contained its manifesto and the movement's rejection of landscape and nudes in ...

More definitions of "movement":

  • (noun): A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
    Example: "He was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"
    Synonyms: social movement, front
  • (noun): A general tendency to change (as of opinion).
    Example: "A broad movement of the electorate to the right"
    Synonyms: drift, trend
  • (noun): An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object.
    Example: "The succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
    Synonyms: apparent motion, motion, apparent movement
  • (noun): A major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata.
    Example: "The second movement is slow and melodic"
  • (noun): A change of position that does not entail a change of location.
    Example: "Movement is a sign of life"
    Synonyms: motion, move, motility
  • (noun): The driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock).
    Example: "It was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
  • (noun): A euphemism for defecation.
    Example: "He had a bowel movement"
    Synonyms: bowel movement, bm
  • (noun): A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.
    Example: "The movement to end slavery"
    Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort
  • (noun): A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something.
    Synonyms: motion
  • (noun): The act of changing the location of something.
    Example: "The movement of cargo onto the vessel"

Famous quotes containing the word movement:

    The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
    Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

    A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
    Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)