moving

moving
    adj 1: in motion; "a constantly moving crowd"; "the moving parts
           of the machine" [ant: {nonmoving}, {unmoving}]
    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}]
    

Move \Move\ (m[=oo]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moved} (m[=oo]vd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Moving}.] [OE. moven, OF. moveir, F.
   mouvoir, L. movere; cf. Gr. 'amei`bein to change, exchange,
   go in or out, quit, Skr. m[imac]v, p. p. m[=u]ta, to move,
   push. Cf. {Emotion}, {Mew} to molt, {Mob}, {Mutable},
   {Mutiny}.]
   1. To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set
      in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place
      to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a
      vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Chess, Checkers, etc.) To transfer (a piece or man) from
      one space or position to another on a playing board,
      according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to
      rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to
      influence.
      [1913 Webster]

            Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.
                                                  --Knolles.
      [1913 Webster]

            No female arts his mind could move.   --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to
      excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically;
      to excite, as an emotion. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

            When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with
            compassion on them.                   --Matt. ix.
                                                  36.
      [1913 Webster]

            [The use of images] in orations and poetry is to
            move pity or terror.                  --Felton.
      [1913 Webster]

   5. To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose
      formally for consideration and determination, in a
      deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be
      adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
      [1913 Webster]

            Let me but move one question to your daughter.
                                                  --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

            They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline
            war upon particular respects.         --Hayward.
      [1913 Webster]

   6. To apply to, as for aid. [Obs.] --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: To stir; agitate; trouble; affect; persuade; influence;
        actuate; impel; rouse; prompt; instigate; incite;
        induce; incline; propose; offer.
        [1913 Webster]
    

Moving \Mov"ing\, a.
   1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a
      moving car, or power.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move
      the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching;
      pathetic; as, a moving appeal.
      [1913 Webster]

            I sang an old moving story.           --Coleridge.
      [1913 Webster]

   {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.
      [1913 Webster]
    

Moving \Mov"ing\, n.
   The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of
   changing one's dwelling place or place of business.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Moving day}, a day when one moves; esp., a day when a large
      number of tenants change their dwelling place.
      [1913 Webster]
    

240 Moby Thesaurus words for "moving":
      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