Phrase Hound found 40 phrases and 14 compound words that contain movement. The most common are listed below. Open movement in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 40
- freedom of movementThe right of a citizen to travel within a state, and to leave and return to that state.
- bowel movementThe discharge of feces from the body, an act of defecation.
- social movementAn effort by a group of people to achieve a social or political goal.
- civil rights movementAny of a number of movements against systemic oppression in various different countries, but especially
- Rights movement
- Jesus movementChristianity in its earliest form, the original religious movement of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Free Movement
- Quartz movement
- Labor Movement
- Union Movement
- new religious movement(abbreviated NRM) Any religious community or spiritual group of modern origins, having a peripheral place within a state's dominant religious culture.
- head movementMovement of a word from the head of one maximal projection to the head of another maximal projection above the first one (i.e., such that the destination head c-commands the original head).
- human movementThe academic study of how human beings move around, perform and exercise, especially in sport.
- rapid eye movementFast movement of the eyes, characterising REM sleep
- Oxford movementA group of clerical Oxford dons that tried to link the Anglican Church more closely to its Roman Catholic roots.
- human potential movementinitiative encapsulating self-help groups, encounter groups and sensitivity training in order to attempt to increase human potential
- movement disorderAny abnormality that concerns control of skeletal muscle, from involuntary twitching or lack of coordination to loss of function.
- movement control orderAny of a series of national quarantine and cordon sanitaire measures imposed by the Malaysian government to halt the spread of COVID-19.
- art movementAny of many styles of art having an underlying philosophy or goal; many of them have names with an -ism suffix.
- youth movementA political, religious, or social movement led by or consisting of mainly young people.
- beta movementThe optical illusion whereby a series of static images shown in rapid succession on a screen appear to show a moving image.
- wh-movementa syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an …
- movement disordersplural of movement disorder: Any abnormality that concerns control of skeletal muscle, from involuntary twitching or lack of coordination to loss of function.
- holiness movementA Wesleyan-Arminian set of Christian beliefs and practices that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism and emphasize the doctrine of a second work of grace leading to Christian perfection.
- Movement for Democratic ChangeA political party in Zimbabwe, founded in 1999. Abbreviation: MDC.
Compound words 14
- postmovementAfter a physical movement.
- micromovementA microscopic movement.
- midmovementA point in time during a movement.
- multimovementOf or pertaining to more than one physical movement.
- submovementA movement making up part of a larger movement.
- aftermovementThe movement of a limb following contraction of a muscle.
- antimovementA social or political movement that opposes something specific.
- countermovementA movement in opposition, or retaliation to another.
- ecomovementA movement promoting the protection of the natural environment.
- holomovementAccording to the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics, the holistic idea that everything is in a state of process or becoming.