Movement vs. Flow

Physical motion between points in space.

Example: ‘I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.’;

(engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.

The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.

A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

Example: ‘The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.’;

(music) A large division of a larger composition.

(aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.

Example: ‘Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.’;

(baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.

Example: ‘The movement on his cutter was devastating.’;

An act of emptying the bowels.

(obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

The act of moving in space; change of place or posture; motion; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine.

Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement.

Transference, by any means, from one situation to another; a change of situation; progress toward a goal; advancement; as, after months of fruitless discussion there was finally some movement toward an agreement.

Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece.

A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch; as, a seventeen jewel movement.

A more or less organized effort by many people to achieve some goal, especially a social or artistic goal; as, the women's liberation movement; the progressive movement in architecture.

a change of position that does not entail a change of location;

Example: ‘the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise’; ‘movement is a sign of life’; ‘an impatient move of his hand’; ‘gastrointestinal motility’;

a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

the act of changing location from one place to another;

Example: ‘police controlled the motion of the crowd’; ‘the movement of people from the farms to the cities’; ‘his move put him directly in my path’;

a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals;

Example: ‘he was a charter member of the movement’; ‘politicians have to respect a mass movement’; ‘he led the national liberation front’;

a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata;

Example: ‘the second movement is slow and melodic’;

a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end;

Example: ‘he supported populist campaigns’; ‘they worked in the cause of world peace’; ‘the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant’; ‘the movement to end slavery’; ‘contributed to the war effort’;

an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object;

Example: ‘the cinema relies on apparent motion’; ‘the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement’;

a euphemism for defecation;

Example: ‘he had a bowel movement’;

a general tendency to change (as of opinion);

Example: ‘not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book’; ‘a broad movement of the electorate to the right’;

the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock);

Example: ‘it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement’;

the act of changing the location of something;

Example: ‘the movement of cargo onto the vessel’;

an act of moving

Example: ‘a slight movement of the body’; ‘the free movement of labour’;

an arrival or departure of an aircraft

Example: ‘the Civil Aviation Authority directed 125,000 aircraft movements in 1991’;

the activities and whereabouts of someone during a particular period of time

Example: ‘your movements and telephone conversations are recorded’;

general activity or bustle

Example: ‘the scene was almost devoid of movement’;

the moving parts of a mechanism, especially a clock or watch

Example: ‘we restore antique clock movements’;

a change or development

Example: ‘the movement towards greater sexual equality’; ‘movements in the underlying financial markets’;

a group of people working together to advance their shared political, social, or artistic ideas

Example: ‘the labour movement’;

a campaign undertaken by a political, social, or artistic movement

Example: ‘a movement to declare war on poverty’;

a principal division of a longer musical work, self-sufficient in terms of key, tempo, and structure

Example: ‘the slow movement of his violin concerto’;

an act of defecation.

A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts

The movement of a real or figurative fluid.

(math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.

Example: ‘The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.’;

The rising movement of the tide.

Smoothness or continuity.

Example: ‘The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.’;

The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.

Example: ‘Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.’;

A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).

(psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.

The emission of blood during menstruation.

Example: ‘Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.’;

The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.

Example: ‘The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point.’;

(Scotland) A morass or marsh.

(intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.

Example: ‘Rivers flow from springs and lakes.’; ‘Tears flow from the eyes.’;

(intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.

Example: ‘Wealth flows from industry and economy.’;

(intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.

Example: ‘The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.’;

(intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.

(intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.

Example: ‘a flowing mantle; flowing locks’;

(intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.

Example: ‘The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.’;

To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.

(transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

(transitive) To cover with varnish.

(intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.

To become liquid; to melt.

Example: ‘The mountains flowed down at thy presence.’;

To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.

Example: ‘Those thousand decencies that daily flowFrom all her words and actions.’;

To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.

Example: ‘Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.’;

To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.

Example: ‘In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.’; ‘The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl.’;

To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.

Example: ‘The imperial purple flowing in his train.’;

To rise, as the tide; - opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.

Example: ‘The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.’;

To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.

To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

To cover with varnish.

A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.

A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.

Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.

Example: ‘The feast of reason and the flow of soul.’;

The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.

A low-lying piece of watery land; - called also flow moss and flow bog.

the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

the amount of fluid that flows in a given time

the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

any uninterrupted stream or discharge

something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously;

Example: ‘a stream of people emptied from the terminal’; ‘the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors’;

dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;

Example: ‘two streams of development run through American history’; ‘stream of consciousness’; ‘the flow of thought’; ‘the current of history’;

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause;

Example: ‘the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation’; ‘a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped’; ‘the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females’;

move or progress freely as if in a stream;

Example: ‘The crowd flowed out of the stadium’;

move along, of liquids;

Example: ‘Water flowed into the cave’; ‘the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi’;

cause to flow;

Example: ‘The artist flowed the washes on the paper’;

be abundantly present;

Example: ‘The champagne flowed at the wedding’;

fall or flow in a certain way;

Example: ‘This dress hangs well’; ‘Her long black hair flowed down her back’;

cover or swamp with water

undergo menstruation;

Example: ‘She started menstruating at the age of 11’;