Dictionary Definition
moving adj
1 in motion; "a constantly moving crowd"; "the
moving parts of the machine" [ant: nonmoving]
2 arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion;
"she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving
letter"- N. Hawthorne [ant: unmoving]
3 used of a series of photographs presented so as
to create the illusion of motion; "Her ambition was to be in moving
pictures or `the movies'" [ant: still]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːvɪŋ
Adjective
- (no comparative or superlative) That moves or move.
- moving pictures
- That causes someone to feel emotion.
- a moving story
Translations
that moves or move
- Dutch: bewegend, bewegende
- Finnish: liikkuva
- Portuguese: movente
that causes someone to feel emotion
- Dutch: ontroerend, ontroerende
- Finnish: liikuttava, koskettava
- Portuguese: comovente
Verb
moving- present participle of move
Noun
- The relocation of goods
- A causing of a movement
- The rats' movings are willed movements.
Extensive Definition
Moving may refer to:
- Moving (address), the process of leaving one dwelling and settling in another
- Moving industry
- Moving company, a type of company that will relocate household or other goods.
- Removalist, those who pack and move household goods for hire.
- Relocation services, those who pack and move household goods for hire.
- Relocation of professional sports teams
- Relocation, in computer science.
- Structure relocation
- Moving (Eight album)
- Moving (Peter, Paul and Mary album)
- Moving (The Raincoats album)
- "Moving" (Kate Bush song)
- "Moving" (Supergrass song)
- "Moving", a song by Cathy Davey
- Moving (film), a comedy starring Richard Pryor
- Moving (TV series), a British sitcom starring Penelope Keith
moving in German: Moving
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
active,
activity, actuating, actuation, advancing, affecting, affective, afflictive, agitating, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory, amotion, animating, animation, arousing, awakening, bitter, bleak, breathless, breathtaking, causal, causative, charged, cheerless, circuit-riding,
cliff-hanging, comfortless, commutation, compelling, course, crossing, delocalization, deplorable, depressing, depressive, dignified, direction, directive, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, displacement, disquieting, distracting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, driving, dynamics, effective, electric, elevated, eloquent, emotional, emotive, exciting, exhilarating, expeditionary, expressive, facund, forward, forward-looking,
galvanic,
globe-girdling, globe-trotting, go-ahead, going, grand, grave, grievous, gripping, heady, heart-expanding,
heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, heartrending, impellent, impelling, impressive, impulsive, in motion, inducive, inflammatory, influence, inner-direction,
inspirational,
inspiring, intoxicating, itinerant, itinerary, jarring, jolting, journeying, joyless, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lamentable, locomotion, locomotive, lofty, maddening, majestic, meaningful, mind-blowing,
mobile, mobilization, motile, motion, motivating, motivation, motivational, motive, motor, mournful, move, movement, mundivagant, noble, on the move, on tour,
oncoming, ongoing, onward, operating, other-direction,
overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, painful, passage, passing, pathetic, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, persuasive, perturbing, pilgrimlike, piquant, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, pregnant, pressing, proceeding, progress, progressing, progressive, prompting, propellant, propelling, provocative, provoking, pulsive, quickening, rallying, ravishing, regrettable, relocation, remotion, removal, removement, restlessness, rousing, rueful, running, sad, saddening, sententious, serious, sharp, shift, significant, solemn, sore, sorrowful, soul-stirring,
spirit-stirring, stately, stimulating, stimulation, stimulative, stir, stirring, striking, strolling, sublime, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, thrusting, touching, touring, tourism, touristic, touristry, touristy, traject, trajet, transit, transitional, travel, traveling, trekking, troubling, uncomfortable, unfixed, unrest, unsettling, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, upsetting, urgent, velocity, walking, wayfaring, weighty, woebegone, woeful, working, wretched