(v. t.) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
(v. t.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
(v. t.) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
(v. t.) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.
(v. t.) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
(v. t.) To apply to, as for aid.
(v. i.) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.
(v. i.) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.
(v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.
(v. i.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.
(n.) The act of moving; a movement.
(n.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game.
(n.) An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(2) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(3) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(4) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(5) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
(6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
(7) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(8) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
(9) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(10) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
(11) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(12) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
(13) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(14) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(15) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
(16) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
(17) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(18) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(19) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(20) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
Tempo
Definition:
(n.) The rate or degree of movement in time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their tempo was better in the second, although there remained the general lack of ingenuity.
(2) The divergence of the cytochrome b gene is modular: various parts of the gene have changed with a different mode and tempo of evolution.
(3) "The MPC must up the tempo at which they execute quantitative easing, while increasing the scheme's size beyond £125bn."
(4) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
(5) They struggled against the USA, however, when the tempo was pushed up to Premier League levels.
(6) Corner to USA though... 1.33am BST 20 mins More tempo in the American play now, but Belgium intercept again, and Mirallas torments them down the Belgian right flank before hitting a low cross in that's hoofed safely clear.
(7) US in no rush to make the substitutions as they try to break up Germany's early tempo.
(8) Nigeria's military and government claim to be winning the war in the five-year insurgency but the tempo and deadliness of attacks has increased this year, killing more than 2,000 people so far compared to an estimated 3,600 killed over the past four years.
(9) The grouping structure, which prescribes the location of major tempo changes, and the parabolic timing function, which represents a natural manner of executing such changes, seem to be the two major constraints under which pianists are operating.
(10) These comparisons can be summarized as follows: 1) TDL populations primed in bulk MLI cultures (MLI-TDL) slowed some evidence of specific positive selection when tested immediately; MLI responses to specific alloantigens were both relatively large and accelerated in tempo, whereas responses to third party alloantigens were diminished but also accelerated in tempo.
(11) In extra-time began to look more like the tempo-setting player he can be, even as his team fell behind.
(12) In our experiments we used spin-labeled maleimide [4-maleimido-tempo] to examine the local environment in the active site of thioredoxin reductase in the presence and absence of calcium.
(13) The specific effect of tuning system was not affected by the tempo of the fragments.
(14) Tempo of growth is under genetical control but quite separately from size.
(15) Girls' development is highlighted because research on antecedents addresses genetic and environmental influences on menarcheal age variations, and because findings on the behavioral consequences of tempo variations have been less consistent for girls than for boys.
(16) This pattern and the tempo of its evolution were distinctly different from the diffuse infiltrates seen in patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
(17) The isolated proteins were spin-labeled by TEMPO-dichlorotriazine and the values of rotational correlation times (tau) of labeled proteins were found using dependencies of ESR spectra parameters vs viscosity at constant temperature.
(18) The introduction of mechanization and automation has led to increased tempo and greater stress.
(19) Steven Gerrard was at his influential and impressive best, dictating Liverpool's tempo from a deep-lying midfield role, and as well as playing a part in both of his side's goals – it was from the 32-year-old's cross-field ball that Coutinho set up Henderson for the equaliser – he also ensured Liverpool held on to their lead with a stunning goalline clearance on 65 minutes, after Benteke had been presented with a free header from Westwood's corner.
(20) Despite Lee Cattermole's best efforts, Sunderland struggled to force any sort of tempo and, with Norwich coasting comfortably, the atmosphere remained stubbornly flat.