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adjective

Moving adj.

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

Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal. "I sang an old moving story."

Moving force (Mech.), a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body.

Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans); so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion.

noun

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

Moving day, a day when one moves; esp., a day when a large number of tenants change their dwelling place.

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Etymology of 'Moving'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moving" Quotes from Famous Books

... was quite above the horizon before the meal was finished, and soon Hunter Brother was anxious to be moving on, so they took their way along the lake shore. On their way they talked and laughed one with another and seemed to agree very well, until they had gone around the lake and reached where Tahoe City now is. Here they quarreled and the Hunter ...

— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James

... Moving events, while remaining enshrined in this fashion in their permanent setting, may contain other and less external relations to the immutable. They may represent it. If the pleasures of sense are not cancelled when they cease, but continue to satisfy reason in that they once satisfied natural ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... o'clock the spasmodic patter of rifles was heard in front. We were halted. Haskell's battalion filed to the right, deployed, and the column marched on, with the sharp-shooters moving as skirmishers ...

— Who Goes There? • Blackwood Ketcham Benson

... beat in her veins. All the safeguards that should have hedged her were gone. A wise mother, an understanding father, could have saved her from the tragedy waiting to engulf her. But she had neither of these. Instead, her father's inhibitions pushed her toward that doom to which she was moving blindfold. ...

— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine

... it attained an enormous size. An Englishman told me that he and some Malays were exploring the jungle to find traces of antimony ore, and came to an opening in the wood, across which they saw the body of a sawar as thick as his own—he was not very stout—moving along; but they never saw either the head or tail of that snake, for, after watching its progress for a long time, they were seized with a panic at its enormous length, ...

— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall

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