Motion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MOTION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to direct by a gesture
• direct or command (someone) with a movement of the hand or head
• To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
• To make proposal; to offer plans.
• To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
• To propose; to move.
• show, express or direct through movement
• direct (someone) by gesture
NOUN:
• the action or process of moving or being moved
• a piece of moving mechanism
• a formal proposal put to a legislature or committee
• an application for a rule or order of court
• an evacuation of the bowels
• process, action, or way of moving
• 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.
• Power of, or capacity for, motion.
• Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
• Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
• Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
• 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.
• Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
• A puppet show or puppet.
• the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
• a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
• a change of position that does not entail a change of location
• a state of change
• a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
• the act of changing location from one place to another
• an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
• a gesture
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to signal by a bodily movement

Words related to MOTION

motional10 motioned11 motioner10 motioners11 motioning12 motions9

How to use MOTION in a sentence

• Every attitude and every motion indicated quietude and refinement.
• This motion was agreed to, and upon another motion made by Mr.
• The girl sprang to her feet with one indignant motion and faced him.
• They were placed all round the square, and it almost made me giddy only to see them all in motion.
• It was a splendid sight, as the allied army got in motion.
• It took some time to get the long convoy in motion, for it consisted of some 700 or 800 carts and about 5,000 sick and wounded, of whom fully three-fourths were unable to walk.
• Then, with a sudden motion, he threw it down among the others, and then yet again his hand stole towards it.
• For harmony cannot possibly have any motion, or sound, or other quality which is opposed to its parts.
• He concluded with a motion for an address to her majesty, desiring that the papers relating to the negotiations of the Hague and Gertruydenburgh should be laid before the house.
• Fox the secretary at war, strenuously opposed the motion, which upon a division was thrown out by a great majority.
• The earl of Northumberland made a motion, in the house of peers, with regard to the unhappy prince whom they had deposed.
• Lord Althorp admitted that he could not oppose the motion on principle, though he resisted it on the ground of expediency.
• Nothing is more pleasant than to see suddenly endowed with motion a thing stagnant by nature.
• A motion was made to reject the petition without reference.
• The wheel C turns through an angle proportional, during each small motion, to dy.
• He remained standing while the four slowly raised the right foot squarely from the ground, then on the toe of the left foot, which motion shook the rattle.
• I followed him into the sitting-room, and, obeying a motion of his hand, seated myself on the sofa.
• The helm and ropes of the establishment obey the motion of one mind with the same readiness and harmony.
• Felled now the tree, silent that music, still The motion that did all the vale-air fill.
• At one time I was placed upon a horse without a saddle, but, finding the motion insupportable, I sprang off.
• Fresh and resolute begins the virile theme with a main charm in the motion itself.
• Aasta looked down into the clear depths where the long tangle of marine plants swayed with the motion of the light current.
• For an instant I had remained without motion, without breath.
• The sick came upon deck, and in the clear sky, fresh air, and sense of motion, seemed to gain new life.
• I sought to relieve myself by rapid motion, and ran with swift, uncertain steps, from west to east, from east to west.
• In this machine, distribution is the reverse of composition, and is effected by simply reversing the motion of the shaft.

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