Functioning and Motion

functioning

Process or manner of functioning or operating.
- usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
- synonyms: operation, performance

Perform as expected when applied.
- usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
- synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
Serve a purpose, role, or function.
- usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
- synonyms: serve, function
Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
- usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
- synonyms: officiate, function

Performing or able to perform its regular function.
- usage: "a functioning flashlight"

motion

The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals.
- synonyms: gesture
A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something.
- synonyms: movement
A change of position that does not entail a change of location.
- usage: "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"
- synonyms: movement, move, motility
A state of change.
- usage: "they were in a state of steady motion"
A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote.
- usage: "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question"
- synonyms: question
The act of changing location from one place to another.
- usage: "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"
- synonyms: movement, move
An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object.
- usage: "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
- synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, movement

Show, express or direct through movement.
- usage: "He gestured his desire to leave"
- synonyms: gesticulate, gesture

(n.) A puppet show or puppet.
(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.
(v.i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
(v.t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
(n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
(v.t.) To propose; to move.
(n.) Movement of the mind, desires or passions; mental act or impulse to any action; internal activity.
(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.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
(v.i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
(n.) Power of or capacity for, motion.
(n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; especially, a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
(n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary