- (n.) A puppet show or puppet.
- (n.) 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.
- (v.i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
- (v.t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
- (n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
- (v.t.) To propose; to move.
- (n.) Movement of the mind, desires or passions; mental act or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
- (v.i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
- (n.) Power of or capacity for, motion.
- (n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; especially, a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
- (n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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