# move

Pronunciation: say "MOOV" /muːv/

## Verb

1. To change place, position, or posture, or to cause someone or something to do so.
   - Simple: To change where someone or something is, or how they are positioned.
   - _The train began to move._
   - _Nothing moved in the heat of the afternoon._
2. To shift or advance to a new phase, subject, activity, line of work, or system, or to make something shift in that way, often followed by on, to, or into.
   - Simple: To go on to a new stage, subject, activity, area of work, or system, or to make something do the same.
   - _After ten years in banking, she moved into teaching._
   - _The company plans to move its customers to the new billing system by spring._
3. To change residence, leaving one house, town or country for another.
   - Simple: To go and live in a different house, town, or country.
   - _His family moved here from Lisbon when he was six._
   - _I'd move tomorrow if I could afford it._
6. To stir the feelings, especially to tenderness, pity or tears; often in the passive.
   - Simple: To make someone feel strong emotion, especially sadness or pity.
   - _Her story moved everyone in the room._
   - _Few things move him anymore._
9. To take action or get going on a matter, often said as an urging.
   - Simple: To start doing something, to take action, as in let's move.
   - _Let's move, people, the bus leaves in five minutes._
   - _The bank moved to foreclose._
13. In chess and other board games, to shift a piece from one square or position to another on one's turn.
   - Simple: In a board game, to shift a piece from one square or place to another.
   - _White moves first._
   - _Move your piece and press the clock._
10. To formally put forward a proposal, question, or request to a meeting, court, or other authority for a decision.
   - Simple: To formally ask a meeting or a court to discuss, vote on, or decide something.
   - _The delegate moved a resolution condemning the raid._
   - _Will someone move to close the debate?_
14. To prompt, urge or persuade someone to act, or to influence their will by a motive or appeal; often with to and an infinitive.
   - Simple: To make someone want to do something, or to urge them to do it.
   - _Pity moved him to help._
   - _What could move a man to such cruelty?_
15. In business, to sell or shift stock, or in slang to deal drugs.
   - Simple: To sell goods, especially to clear out stock fast, or in slang to sell illegal drugs.
   - _We moved more units this quarter than last._
   - _Nobody can move a car with that mileage._
16. In programming, to transfer a value or the resources it owns to another variable or object instead of copying them.
   - Simple: In programming, to hand an object's contents to another place instead of copying them.
   - _After you move it, the old variable is empty._
   - _The compiler moved the string into the new owner._

## Noun

4. An action taken to achieve something, often one step in a plan, and often judged by others as wise, bold or risky.
   - Simple: Something you do to get a result, often one step in a plan, that others may call smart or risky.
   - _Dropping the lawsuit was a shrewd move._
   - _Nobody understood the coach's move._
5. A practiced or named action in sport, dance, exercise or combat, performed as a unit.
   - Simple: A practiced action or trick used in sport, dance, or fighting.
   - _The gym teaches six basic moves to beginners._
   - _That spinning move is hard to block._
7. The whole business of changing where one lives, from packing to unpacking.
   - Simple: The event of changing where you live, with all the packing and carrying.
   - _We hired a company to handle the move._
   - _Every move means a new school for the kids._
11. An act of moving; a single motion of a body or part of one.
   - Simple: An act of moving, a single movement of the body or a thing.
   - _He made a move for the exit._
   - _Don't make any sudden moves._
8. A transfer from one employer, club or post to another.
   - Simple: A change from one employer, team, or job to another.
   - _The striker's move fell through at the last minute._
   - _A sideways move within the company suits her for now._
12. In chess and other board games, a player's turn of shifting a piece within the rules; such turns are also counted to measure a game's length.
   - Simple: In a board game, one turn in which a player moves a piece.
   - _She studied the position before making her move._
   - _Pawn to king four is the classic opening move._
17. In Minimalist syntax, one of the basic structure-building operations, which displaces an element already in the tree to a new position.
   - Simple: In linguistics, a basic operation that shifts a word or phrase to a new place in a sentence structure.
   - _In a question like 'What did you see?', Move shifts 'what' from after the verb to the front of the sentence._
   - _Internal merge is another name for move._

## Verb

18. To raise or mention; to put a question, suggestion or complaint before someone. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To bring up a question or a complaint, an obsolete use.
19. To apply to someone for aid or a favor, with the request introduced by for. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To ask someone for help or support, an obsolete use.
20. To bow or make a salute on meeting someone. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To bow or greet someone when meeting them, an obsolete use.

## Origin

This word comes from Middle English moven, borrowed from Old French forms like mouver and moveir, which came from Latin movēre ("to move, change, quit"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ("to move, drive"). It has cognates such as Lithuanian mauti and Sanskrit mī́vati, and it largely displaced the native English word "stir."

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