Roget's Thesaurus

#264. Motion

Nouns

motion, movement, move; going etc. v.; unrest. stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis. step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey etc. 266; voyage etc. 267; transit etc. 270. restlessness etc. (changeableness) 149; mobility; movableness, motive power; laws of motion; mobilization.

Verbs

be in motion etc. adj.; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wanderetc. (deviate) 279; walk etc. 266; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving; put in motion, set in motion; move; impel etc. 276; propel etc. 284; render movable, mobilize.

Adjectives

moving etc. v.; in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless etc. (changeable) 149; nomadic etc. 266; erratic etc. 279.

Adverbs

under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.

Phrases

eppur si muove [Galileo]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille [G.], sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt [G.].