Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of moving from place to place.
- n. The ability to move from place to place.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Movement from place to place; progressive motion, as of a living being or a vehicle; the act of moving from point to point; also, the capability of moving in this manner.
Wiktionary
- n. The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
- n. biology Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of moving from place to place.
- n. The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.
- n. The name of a song and a dance, briefly popular in the 1960's.
WordNet 3.0
- n. self-propelled movement
- n. the power or ability to move
Etymologies
- Latin locō, from a place, ablative of locus, place + motion. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“_ And I have insisted particularly upon the dependence of representations of locomotion upon knowledge of three-dimensional existence, because, before proceeding to the relations of Subject and Form in painting, I want to impress once more upon the reader the distinction between the _locomotion of things_ (locomotion active or passive) and what, in my example of the _mountain which rises, _ I have called the _empathic movement of lines.”
“Now of the three kinds of motion that there are-motion in respect of magnitude, motion in respect of affection, and motion in respect of place-it is this last, which we call locomotion, that must be primary.”
“The locomotion is in many fundamental respects like that of the human being.”
“The spines on the legs of cockroaches were earlier considered to be sensory, but observations of their locomotion on sand and wire meshes has demonstrated that they help in locomotion on difficult terrain.”
“Rough terrain locomotion has mainly relied on rigid body systems, such as crawlers and leg mechanisms.”
“So I was interested to learn that more recent studies with modern cameras have shown that horse locomotion is actually very different to what he thought:”
“And the moisture of the element seems well adapted to counteract the rigidity of their fibres; and as their exertions in locomotion, and the pressure of some parts on others, are so much less than in the bodies of land animals.”
“Therefore, any affection causing a sensation and sign of pain which is increased by the bearing of weight upon the affected member, or by the moving of such a distressed part, results in an irregularity in locomotion, which is known as lameness or claudication.”
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
“But sleepsex appears to belong to a mental netherworld in which brain regions devoted to higher thought, judgment and reasoning are shut down, while areas governing more primitive functions (such as locomotion, eating and sex) are still active.”
“We have now to show which kind of locomotion is primary.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘locomotion’.
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Baby, Work Out!
Names of popular or once dances.
hully gully, slauson, twist, jitterbug, stroll, pony, mashed potato, swim, jerk, watusi, boogaloo, worm and 54 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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One Left Footer's Manifesto
I was tragically born with an extra left foot. If I weren't so debilitated, this would be my to-do list.
cha cha, tango, waltz, fox trot, limbo, square dance, line dance, mosh, breakdance, pop and lock, robot, salsa and 98 more...
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loco-
motion; from place to place
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Words to describe motion
locomotion, gait, lope, bolt, race, dart, dash, scamper, sprint, jog, scurry, flit and 10 more...
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dance dance revolution
interesting dances
maxixe, lambada, rhumba, samba, tango, cha cha cha, square, lundu, mambo, polka, hora, waltz and 59 more...
Tweets
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treeseed Also seen as Loco-motion when referring to the dance Feb 25, 2008
gangerh Here's a snippet from a blog somewhere:
>: * Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion" hit #1 in 1962, but there was never any
>: actual dance by that name
>Most certainly there was a dance called the Loco-Motion. People used to
>do it all the time. You must be joking.
Retroactively, perhaps. According to co-writer Carole King (_Billboard Book of Number One Hits_, 1985 edition), "There never was a dance called the loco-motion until after it was a number one hit record... everyone said, 'how does this dance go,' so Little Eva had to make up a dance."
Feb 24, 2008