Definitions for: Moving


[adj] arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion; "she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter"- N. Hawthorne
[adj] in motion; "a constantly moving crowd"; "the moving parts of the machine"
[adj] used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion; "Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or `the movies'"



Webster (1913) Definition: Mov"ing, a.
1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a
moving car, or power.

2. Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the
sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic;
as, a moving appeal.

I sang an old moving story. --Coleridge.

Moving force (Mech.), a force that accelerates, retards, or
deflects the motion of a body.

Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Desmodium
gyrans}); -- so called because its leaflets have a
distinct automatic motion.


Mov"ing, n.
The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of
changing one's dwelling place or place of business.

Moving day, a day when one moves; esp., a day when a large
number of tenants change their dwelling place.

Synonyms: active, affecting, aflare, afoot(p), agitated, ahorse(p), ahorseback(p), animated, approaching, automotive, awheel, billowing, blown, bouncing, bounding, circling, circulating, crawling, creeping, curling, darting, fast-flying, flailing, flaring, fleeing(a), fleeting, flittering, floating, flowing, fluttering, flying, haunting, heartwarming, heaving, hurling, hurtling, itinerant, jolting, jouncing, jumping, kinetic, leaping, marching, milling, mobile, on the move(p), oncoming, passing(a), poignant, restless, revolving, riding, road, rolling, rotating, running(a), rushing, scampering(a), self-propelled, self-propelling, shifting, shuffling, soaring, soul-stirring, spinning, springing, squirming, stirring, streaming, swaying, sweeping, swinging, swirling, thrashing, tossing, touching, touring, tramping, trampling, traveling, tumbling, turning, twisting, unreeling, unwinding, vibrating, vibratory, walking(a), waving, wheeling, whirling, wiggling, wiggly, wriggling, wriggly, writhing

Antonyms: nonmoving, still, unmoving

See Also: emotional, impressive, stimulating

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