Definitions for moving

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moving mov·ing

Spelling: [moo-ving]

IPA: /ˈmu vɪŋ/

Moving is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in moving (gimnov).

Definitions for moving

noun

1. an act or instance of moving; movement.
2. a change of location or residence.
3. an action toward an objective or goal; step:
4. (in chess, checkers, etc.) a player's right or turn to make a play.
5. a play or maneuver, as in a game or sport.

Idioms

1. get a move on, Informal. to begin; act: to hurry; hasten.
2. make one's move, Informal. to act, especially to assert oneself at an opportune time.
3. on the move, busy; active: going from place to place: advancing; progressing:
4. put moves on, Slang. to make sexual advances toward. Also, make a move on.

adjective

1. capable of or having movement:
2. causing or producing motion.
3. involved in changing the location of possessions, a residence, office, etc.:
4. involving a motor vehicle in motion.
5. actuating, instigating, or impelling:
6. stirring or evoking strong feelings or emotions, especially touchingly or pathetically:

Verb phrases

1. move in, to begin to occupy a place in which to live or work.
2. move in on, Informal. to approach or make advances toward usurping another's success, authority, position, or the like. to take aggressive steps to control or possess:
3. move on, to leave or go away: to approach or attack as a military target: to progress or change: to move past an upsetting experience and go on with one’s life.
4. move out, to leave a place in order to start or continue a planned march, maneuver, journey, etc.:
5. move over, to change or cause to change to another position, especially to make room for another:
6. move up, to advance to a higher level.

verb (used with object)

1. to change from one place or position to another.
2. to set or keep in motion.
3. to prompt, actuate, or impel to some action:
4. to arouse or excite the feelings or passions of; affect with emotion (usually followed by to):
5. to affect with tender or compassionate emotion; touch:
6. to transfer (a piece in a game) from one position to another.
7. to dispose of (goods) by sale.
8. to cause (the bowels) to discharge or eject the feces.
9. to propose formally, as to a court or judge, or for consideration by a deliberative assembly.
10. to submit a formal request or proposal to (a court, a sovereign, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to pass from one place or position to another.
2. to go from one place of residence to another:
3. to advance or progress:
4. to have a regular motion, as an implement or a machine; turn; revolve.
5. to sell or be sold:
6. to start off or leave:
7. to transfer a piece in a game, as chess or checkers.
8. (of the bowels) to discharge or eject the feces; evacuate.
9. to be active in a particular sphere:
10. to take action; proceed.
11. to make a formal request, application, or proposal:

Origin of moving

First recorded in 1300-50, moving is from the Middle English word meving. See move, -ing²

Examples for moving

It was seen by a small delegation of star-struck prelates and dignitaries who later described the film as “moving.”

Firing from ambush and moving from place to place, he would seem more than one man.

In the 1950s, you had people like Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger moving back and forth between the two worlds.

He was moving leisurely, keeping his horse at the cattle pony's lope.

She thought about moving the show to New York City, where the number-two-rated This Week is sometimes filmed.

Everything was moving ahead smoothly, and continued to for the rest of the year.

“You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.

Sidney could hear her moving about with flat, inelastic steps.

A phantom of him moving silent about the house fill the part as well!

When he stood behind her, silent and not moving, she turned slowly about and faced him.