move (original) (raw)
move verb (CAUSE)
move verb (CHANGE OPINION)
move someone on something He's made up his mind, and nothing you can say will move him on the issue.
move away from We would like to move away from a cash-based system.
move verb (FEELINGS)
move someone to tears It was such a sad film that it moved him to tears (= made him cry).
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
move verb (SELL)
move verb (BE WITH PEOPLE)
move verb (SUGGEST)
move verb (PASS)
Idioms
Phrasal verbs
move noun (CHANGE OF PLACE)
We've had four moves in three years.
Idioms
(Definition of move from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of move
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This may include planning a further move to housing offering a greater degree of shelter, or even greater reliance on families.
By formulating plans in advance, agents can avoid the need down the line to deliberate about their next move.
The two players alternately take new edges, one edge per move.
Hence, it is difficult to explain why players would conceive of the simultaneous move game in sequential terms.
Perhaps, moreover, a case can be made for saying that philosophical understanding is advanced, not by solving problems head-on, but by moving around them.
After the recording and the developing, the hologram was returned to the second holder and moved into the laser beam line.
A small test flash was first used to center the stimulus over the receptive field by manually moving it to elicit a maximum response.
The remaining fourteen had moved into private enterprise, mostly with firms specializing in the field of their former ministries.
The manipulator remains standing still, until the operator begins to move it.
Each move consists of a jump by one man over one or more other men, the men jumped over being removed from the board.
At first, the move towards local evaluation took the form of a type of school-based self-evaluation.
At times the camera was mounted on moving surfaces, such as trains, trams, ships, or even the subway.
Whenever an equilibrium force-law is required, it is always essential to establish that the two surfaces have stopped moving before the equilibrium displacements are measured.
The theoretical debate has moved beyond the subject of interpretation of the past, to the necessity to reflect on archaeology itself.
He moves beyond aesthetic analysis to relate these themes to the broader historical context.
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Collocations with move
These are words often used in combination with move.
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This wide-ranging study makes a bold move in this direction.
Modernisation must also mean a decisive move away from the old-fashioned confrontational methods of pay bargaining.
After an enemy has sustained several hits, a finishing move can be used on him/her.
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