locomote

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The local symptoms in this case being limited to one arm and shoulder, the patient was enabled to locomote, and thus became an office-patient.

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  1. intransitive verb To move from one place to another.

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  • As we built more and more complicated machines, machines that could locomote, manipulate objects, compute, operate in response to logical rules, recognize our speech - we began developing, and advancing developement of, the concept of 'man as machine'. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • As we built more and more elaborate and complicated machines, machines that could locomote, manipulate objects, compute, operate in response to logical rules, recognize our speech - we began developing, and advancing developement of, the concept of man as machine '. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Recently, I have been noticing what people say about themselves and how they locomote in their chairs. —  Wheelchair Dancer
  • She takes a few steps in a row every day but it appears that she prefers to locomote QUICKLY versus VERTICALLY, and so when she really wants to haul tiny ass, she crawls. —  The New Girl
  • As we built more and more elaborate and complicated automata - machines that could locomote, manipulate objects, compute, operate in response to logical rules, recognize speech - we began developing, and advancing development of, the analogous concept of 'man as machine'. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
 

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/ˈloʊkəmoʊt/
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