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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

move

/muːv/

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.35 in modern English

Syllables
move
IPA
/muːv/
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

Intransitive verb

verb

To act; to take action; to begin to act

Intransitive verb

verb

To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place; similarly to change the location of another establishment such as a business. See also move out and move in.

Intransitive verb

verb

To transport (an item) as part of changing residences.

Transitive verb

verb

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another

Transitive verb

verb

To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.

Transitive verb

verb

To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

Transitive verb

verb

To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor. Middle English moven English move From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian. See also Old English hrēran.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: moven, mover, mouver, moveō, *m(y)ewh₁-

Usage

Inflected Forms

moves (present, singular) moving (participle, present) moved (participle, past) moved (past) no-table-tags (table tags) glossary (inflection template) moved (first person, past) movest (archaic, present) moved (past, second person) movedst (archaic, past) moveth (archaic, present) moved (past, singular)

Derived Forms

CHAdeMO comove foremove inmove mismove movability movable movableness movably movant movement movent

Phrases

angels moving the furniture anything that moves café de move-on earth-moving ever-moving faith can move mountains faith will move mountains fast-moving

Synonyms

shift stir adjust disrupt disturb move place position put relocate reposition set

Rhymes With

you've improve prove remove approve groove disapprove juve disprove struve behoove stueve

Questions

How do you pronounce move?
The recorded pronunciation is /muːv/.
What does move mean?
To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
Where does move come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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