Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Changing or capable of changing position: a moving target.
- adj. Relating to or involved in a transfer of furnishings from one location to another: moving expenses; moving van.
- adj. Causing or producing motion.
- adj. Involving a motor vehicle in motion: a moving violation.
- adj. Arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion: a moving account of the tragedy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Causing to move or act; impelling; instigating; persuading; influencing: as, the moving cause of a dispute.
- Exciting the feelings, especially the tender feelings; touching; pathetic; affecting.
- n. Movement; motion; impulse.
Wiktionary
- adj. That moves or move.
- adj. That causes someone to feel emotion.
- v. present participle of move.
- n. uncountable The relocation of goods
- n. countable A causing of a movement
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action.
- adj. Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic.
- n. The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of changing one's dwelling place or place of business.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. in motion
- adj. arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion
- adj. used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion
Examples
“And I saw all kinds of incomprehensible things moving, yes, _moving_, in those eyes of his.”
“And she also did some "inexpensive Web-based advertising" which also got the word moving among readers.”
“Its eye opening to see Takashi so happy in moving from a large Las Vegas Restaurant at The Wynn to a neighborhood restaurant where the dishwasher is in a basement that has a 5 foot ceiling.”
“Children of Violence is the collective name for the five books about Martha Quest, Lessing's alter ego, who, in moving from a colonial existence to the British class hierarchy, is swept away by her dreams and primary instincts.”
“DEADBEATS, the title moving online, features a gang of passionate vampires and the mortals who try to destroy them.”
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“Now he really did bring new definition to the term moving Saturday yesterday.”
“This means the game can only be legally sold to adults and might lead to the title moving less copies than expected in the nation that made the initial StarCraft a national sport, which spawned the PC bang phenomenon and the creation of numerous e-sports leagues that in turn created generations of star players.”
“Someone recently pointed out that the term moving at a”
“Ensemble is, as I'm sure you know, forming a new company, and they will be helping us support the title moving forward, so: bug patches, any kind of fixes - we'll have all those folks available to work on it," Jason Pace, lead producer for Halo wars and MGS overseer of the Halo franchise, told”
“Reflecting in the midst of action—what we call moving off the dance floor and getting on the balcony—is a powerful way to do this.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moving’.
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Impressionism
Words that describe the art of the impressionist era.
seascapes, landscapes, modern, impression, impressionist, contemporary, flicker, sensation, modernity, perceived, perceiving, momentary and 142 more...
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Touchy
Touch-sense metaphors, words and terms.
Includes general touch-oriented metaphors; words that seem like puns but reference the sense of touch, like: grasp (to grasp a concept), feeli...kinaesthesia, somatosensory, grasp, feelings, touchy, rubs, poke, kinesthetic, feels, hold, hands-on, moving and 14 more...
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no little thing
it bothers me when i hear someone who have experienced something life changing use the phrase: now i appreciate the little things. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY LITTLE THINGS. everything is EXTRAOR...
letters, living, understand, narrow, behavior, personal, need, meant, untamed, world, soldier, 'cause and 241 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Lizbt's Words
monkey, kitten, puppy, computer, screen, dalek, tardis, cute, dark, cotton, chocolate, sunshine and 125 more...
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Poetrie: The Poems I Have Not Written
by John Brehm
I’m so wildly unprolific, the poems
I have not written would reach
from here to the California coast
if you laid them end to end.
And if ...describe, imagine, failed, sweep, divert, reproof, lingering, flutelike, interrogation, stately, intersecting, slick and 23 more...
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Phobiariffic
Things that scare me
brain damage, cancer, alzheimer's, children, pregnancy, babies, falling, marriage, moving, house centipedes, horses, silence
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Allow Events to Change You
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is the result of something that has happened to you.
Prerequisites: Openness to experience and the willingness to be changed by them forever.deception, charade, bamboozle, swindle, disaster, calamity, catastrophe, tough, harsh, manifesto, moving, adjust
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Used on critiques
remote, solitaire, tragic, complex, mature, intimate, silent, paradoxal, cathartic, eloquent, intense, passionate and 2 more...
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the things that you do
relate, immure, resemble, brighten, lighten, darken, magnify, anticipate, illuminate, fly, hesitate, accept and 74 more...
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trucks
dump, container, tow, hand, pickup, garbage, recycle, milk, moving, ups, logging, fedex and 3 more...
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Stuffie: The Castle Keep
Stuffie #12. Stuff you keep.
up, out, away, it real, faith, on keeping on, hope alive, out of reach of c..., it to yourself, it together, time, the pace and 57 more...
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trailers
Tweets
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