Functioning and Movement

noun

• 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

verb

• 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

adjective

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

noun

• 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: motion, move, motility
• 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: motion, move
• A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something.
  • synonyms: motion
• A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
  • usage: "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"
  • synonyms: social movement, front
• A major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata.
  • usage: "the second movement is slow and melodic"
• A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.
  • usage: "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort"
  • synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort
• 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, motion, apparent movement
• A euphemism for defecation.
  • usage: "he had a bowel movement"
  • synonyms: bowel movement, bm
• A general tendency to change (as of opinion. )
  • usage: "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
  • synonyms: drift, trend
• The driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock. )
  • usage: "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
• The act of changing the location of something.
  • usage: "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"

• (n.) The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece.
• (n.) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
• (n.) The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement.
• (n.) Manner or style of moving; as, a slow or quick or sudden, movement.
• (n.) One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony.
• (n.) A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch.