*motion*

n. [ L. commotio: cf. F. commotion. See Motion. ] 1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ What ] commotion in the winds ! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. [ 1913 Webster ]

When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement. “He could not debate anything without some commotion.” Clarendon.

Syn. -- Excitement; agitation; perturbation; disturbance; tumult; disorder; violence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
Syn. -- CER, conditioned emotion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: cf. F. émotion. See Move, and cf. Emmove. ] A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.

Syn. -- Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement. -- Emotion, Feeling, Agitation. Feeling is the weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind. Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as, an emotion of pity, terror, etc. Agitation may be bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions. See Passion. “Agitations have but one character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with the objects that awaken them. There are emotions either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or strong, either painful or pleasing.” Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give an emotional character to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with emotion. [ R. ] “The emotioned soul.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. unsusceptible to, destitute of, or showing no emotion; unmoved by feeling. Opposite of emotional; as, he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served. [ Narrower terms: matter-of-fact, prosaic; philosophical, philosophic; phlegmatic, phlegmatical, stolid; stoic, stoical; unblinking ] Also See: cool, passionless, unmoved(predicate), unmoving.
Syn. -- unemotional, passionless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Physiol.) Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) An ideo-motor movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Steam Engine) A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The illustration shows a link motion for a vertical engine, c representing the shaft carrying two eccentrics, a and b, for making the engine run forward and backward, respectively, their rods e and d being jointed to opposite ends of the slotted link f, in the opening of which is a pin g which is attached to the valve rod h. The valve will receive the motion of the forward eccentric when the link is in the position shown, and the motion of the backward eccentric when the link is shifted so far to the right as to bring e in line with h, or a compound motion derived from both eccentrics when the link is shifted to intermediate positions, the compound motion causing the valve to cut off the steam at a point determined by the position to which the link may have been shifted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. locus place + motio motion: cf. F. locomotion. See Local, and Motion. ] 1. The act of moving from place to place. “ Animal locomotion.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The name of a song and a dance, briefly popular in the 1960's; as, do the locomotion. [ PJC ]

n. [ F., fr. L. motio, fr. movere, motum, to move. See Move. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace
attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Power of, or capacity for, motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Devoid of sense and motion. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east. [ 1913 Webster ]

In our proper motion we ascend. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) 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. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mus.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is that when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is that when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is that when parts move in the same direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A puppet show or puppet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What motion's this? the model of Nineveh? Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Motion, in mechanics, may be simple or compound.
Simple motions are: (a) straight translation, which, if of indefinite duration, must be reciprocating. (b) Simple rotation, which may be either continuous or reciprocating, and when reciprocating is called oscillating. (c) Helical, which, if of indefinite duration, must be reciprocating.
Compound motion consists of combinations of any of the simple motions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Center of motion,
Harmonic motion, etc. See under Center, Harmonic, etc. --
Motion block (Steam Engine), a crosshead. --
Perpetual motion (Mech.), an incessant motion conceived to be attainable by a machine supplying its own motive forces independently of any action from without. According to the law of conservation of energy, such perpetual motion is impossible, and no device has yet been built that is capable of perpetual motion. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Syn. -- See Movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Motioned p. pr. & vb. n. Motioning. ] 1. To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make proposal; to offer plans. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To propose; to move. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I want friends to motion such a matter. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to motion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mover. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without motion; being at rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

. 1. A series of pictures on a strip of film, taken at regular intervals in rapid succession (now usually 24 frames per second for ordinary work) by a special camera, intended to capture the image of objects in motion. [ PJC ]

2. the display of the images captured on a motion picture{ 1 }, presented to the eye in very rapid succession by projection from a special apparatus (a movie projector), with shows some or all of the objects in the picture represented in changing positions, producing, by persistence of vision, the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects appear to move as they did in the original scene.
Syn. -- movie, moving picture, flick. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

3. The conceptual or informational content of a motion picture{ 1 }; the actions or events represented in a motion picture{ 1 }; the story line of a movie. “One of the great punch lines in motion picture history is ‘Round up the usual suspects.' from ‘Casablanca'.” [ PJC ]

n. [ Nerve + motion. ] (Physiol.) The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. pre- + motion. ] Previous motion or excitement to action. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. promotio: cf. F. promotion. ] The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Ps. lxxv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. remotio. See Remove. ] 1. The act of removing; removal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This remotion of the duke and her
Is practice only. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being remote; remoteness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The whitish gleam [ of the stars ] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse; spontaneous or voluntary motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Matter is not induced with self-motion. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]