(n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
(n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.
(n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
(n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
(n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
(n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
(n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
(n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
(n.) A puppet show or puppet.
(v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
(v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
(v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
(v. t.) To propose; to move.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(3) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
(5) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(6) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(7) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(8) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
(9) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(10) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(11) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(12) We present a paradigm to estimate local affine motion parallax structure from a varying image irradiance pattern.
(13) Echocardiographic findings included an abrupt midsystolic, posterior motion (greater than 3 mm beyond the CD line) in five patients, multiple sequence echoes in six, and posterior coaptation of the mitral valve near the left atrial wall in six.
(14) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
(15) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(16) Rapid right ventricular pacing increased the extent and degree of dyskinesia of the left ventricle, but premedication with nicorandil improved the wall motion.
(17) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
(18) The relative importance of these properties depends critically on the presence and mode of motion of the tectorial plate.
(19) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
(20) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
Reconsider
Definition:
(v. t.) To consider again; as, to reconsider a subject.
(v. t.) To take up for renewed consideration, as a motion or a vote which has been previously acted upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those are the issues for her which I think will cause her to reconsider whether she wants to run.” Clinton was replaced as secretary of state in February 2013, by John Kerry .
(2) Campana), has induced the authors to reconsider the surgical approach to this pathology on the basis of anatomo-surgical factors.
(3) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
(4) The advent of what is called the chemotherapy of mental diseases goes back to the early fifties, when a series of clinical observations led medical research to reconsider this field, that at the time was not particularly developed.
(5) Although these are worst case calculations, a consistent approach should be reconsidered to limit the additional effective dose equivalent from impurities to e.g.
(6) We mustn’t expect Cameron to reconsider his perspective.
(7) Based on preliminary results suggesting the contrary, the purpose of this work was to reconsider the denervation effect of perivascular sympathectomy.
(8) O’Dwyer said in the meantime the government will conduct a review and cabinet will reconsider the tax in October or November.
(9) Next weekend's sellout UK Feminista summer school should make the gloating critics reconsider.
(10) Lucas has stayed to fight for his place in recent seasons, and succeeded, but may reconsider that stance should a tempting offer materialise before 1 September.
(11) In the light of this analysis it is argued that the profession should reconsider the place of such documents within the Health Authorities' quality assurance programme.
(12) The letter follows a missive that Murphy sent a month ago to Nascar boss Brian France, asking him to reconsider the NRA sponsorship.
(13) Campaigners and MPs – including some Tory backbenchers – have been lobbying ministers to mitigate the impact of the welfare cuts by restoring the work allowance in universal credit, and to reconsider the planned £30-a-week cuts in employment and support allowance benefits due in 2017.
(14) Q: In the US this has led to a desire to reconsider their laws.
(15) One of Browner's first priorities could be to press the EPA to reconsider the decision by the Bush administration to bar California from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
(16) Still, some economists suggest that if the Fed could have foreseen what has ensued in the weeks since it raised rates, it might have reconsidered.
(17) It said that given the risks involved in bailing out Greece, eurozone governments should reconsider whether they should continue to provide a lifeline to Athens.
(18) Three cases, recently observed, of non-obstetrical gynaecological infections in adults caused by Haemophilus influenzae have prompted us to reconsider this rare pathology.
(19) Regardless of which of these proposed mechanisms is responsible for reducing mortality in patients treated with late thrombolysis after myocardial infarction, the limitation of treating patients only within the 4- to 6-hour time window must be seriously reconsidered.
(20) It is not clear if Iran received any of these items but a confidential cable released by WikiLeaks appears to show that the head of Iran's drug control department blackmailed the UNODC's representative by suggesting that if the agency did not meet the wishes of Iran, the Islamic republic might "reconsider the scope of its own efforts against the traffickers".