motion
- noun
- /ˈmoʊʃən/
- He pointed in a sweeping motion to guide us towards the exit.
- a hand motion
- quick motion
- body motions
What the fuck is your face motion in there?
- What the fuck is your face motion in there?
Examples
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You are going to use long sweeping motions and blend out the jawline.
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And you just use very soft motions back and forth.
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I made a finger motion.
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Some were no more than a quick grabbing motion in the air.
Academic text (2013) -
Yes, swing the free leg forward and around with a wide scooping motion and prepare to jump.
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All of these motions take on meaning only in the context in which they occur.
Academic text (2013) -
Sally pulled on her gloves with quick, practiced motions and started for the door.
Fiction book (1991) -
Singing the song and using body motions can help students play phrase endings correctly.
Academic text (1996) -
She made a motion with her hands to indicate that she wanted silence.
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The teacher used a clear motion to show us how to start the dance.
Synonyms
A change of place when something moves
A gesture or sound that tells someone to act
A change of position of a body part or object
A movement of the body that shows a thought or feeling
A movement made to show meaning or give an instruction
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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A way of showing action in film or video that happens more slowly than real life
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A rule that shows how pushes and pulls change how things move, for example by starting or stopping
An American group that gives the Oscars every year for work in movies
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Three basic rules that explain how objects move and push each other in physics
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Tiny particles in a liquid or gas move randomly when molecules hit them
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An object stays still or keeps moving at the same speed and direction unless a force acts on it
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A movement that goes back and forth around a middle point, like a pendulum
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Every force causes an equal force in the opposite direction
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Movement of one object measured from another or from a person watching
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Movement of one object around another in space, like a planet around a star
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Every push on an object causes an equal push back in the opposite direction
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A visual effect that makes still images look like they are moving, as in movies
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Movement when something turns around its own middle like a spinning top
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Movement where speed changes by different amounts over time
A public show where moving pictures and sound tell a story, like a film at a cinema
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A rule that describes how planets move around the Sun in oval paths
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An object stays still or keeps moving in the same straight line unless a force acts on it
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A rule that a force changes an object's motion more when the force is bigger or the object is lighter
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Movement that repeats at regular times, with each cycle taking the same amount of time
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A rule that says how a force makes an object move faster depending on its mass
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A study that measures how long each part of a job takes to find a faster way
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People watch how workers do a job to find the fastest, easiest way to do it
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A situation that gets worse slowly in public while people cannot stop it
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A repeating back and forth movement where the pull back gets stronger the farther it moves from center
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Movement where speed decreases by the same amount every second
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Motion for a gesture also comes from Latin movere 'to move'; think of a small movement of the hand or head used to send a signal. So, a motion in this sense is a movement you make to show or tell someone something.