Definition of Moving

1. Adjective. In motion. "The moving parts of the machine"


2. Adjective. Arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion. "She laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter"

3. Adjective. 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'"
Similar to: Animated
Antonyms: Still

Definition of Moving

1. a. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power.

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

Definition of Moving

1. Adjective. (''no comparative or superlative'') That moves or move. ¹

2. Adjective. That causes someone to feel emotion. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of move) ¹

4. Noun. The relocation of goods ¹

5. Noun. A causing of a movement ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Moving

1. move [v] - See also: move

Medical Definition of Moving

1. 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, a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body. Moving plant, a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans); so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moving

moviegoings
moviehouse
moviehouses
movieland
movielike
moviemaker
moviemakers
moviemaking
moviemakings
movieoke
movieola
movieolas
movies
movieverse
movieverses
moving (current term)
moving-coil galvanometer
moving-picture show
moving average
moving company
moving expense
moving in
moving part
moving parts
moving picture
moving pictures
moving ramp
moving ridge
moving screen
moving spirit

Literary usage of Moving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Musician 21:203 Ap '16 moving pictures, Children's. See moving pictures for children moving pictures, Colored Color movies are here. ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Am J Pub Health 7:631- o Jl 17 Sec also National mouth hygiene association moving picture plays New art of the photoplay-dramatist. R: Silvester. ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Thus any length, in the direction of motion, on a moving system is estimated ... Or, put in a better way, an observer viewing a system which is moving with ..."

4. The Advanced Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies by Edward John Routh (1884)
"moving Axes.. IN many problems in dynamics it will be found that the axes of reference suitable to the initial state of the motion are not well adapted to ..."

5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"the locus as part of the moving body A, (ii. .... The inst. radii of a point moving in a straight line are parallel; and (ii.) the inst. radii of a point ..."

6. The Nature of Matter and Electricity: An Outline of Modern Views by Daniel Frost Comstock, Leonard Thompson Troland (1917)
"If the charge is positive and is moving in the direction of the large arrow the ... Section 44 THE DEFLECTION OF moving ELECTRONS BY A MAGNET The principle ..."

7. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Musician 21:203 Ap '16 moving pictures, Children's. See moving pictures for children moving pictures, Colored Color movies are here. ..."

8. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Am J Pub Health 7:631- o Jl 17 Sec also National mouth hygiene association moving picture plays New art of the photoplay-dramatist. R: Silvester. ..."

9. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Thus any length, in the direction of motion, on a moving system is estimated ... Or, put in a better way, an observer viewing a system which is moving with ..."

10. The Advanced Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies by Edward John Routh (1884)
"moving Axes.. IN many problems in dynamics it will be found that the axes of reference suitable to the initial state of the motion are not well adapted to ..."

11. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"the locus as part of the moving body A, (ii. .... The inst. radii of a point moving in a straight line are parallel; and (ii.) the inst. radii of a point ..."

12. The Nature of Matter and Electricity: An Outline of Modern Views by Daniel Frost Comstock, Leonard Thompson Troland (1917)
"If the charge is positive and is moving in the direction of the large arrow the ... Section 44 THE DEFLECTION OF moving ELECTRONS BY A MAGNET The principle ..."

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