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# motion

noun (motion, motions); verb (motion, motions, motioned, motioning)

«motion» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Movement; the act of moving. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#m1)
2. A single movement, especially of the hand or body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#m2)
3. (verb) To give someone a sign with your hand or head. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#m3)
4. A formal suggestion that a group votes on at a meeting or debate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#m4)

### In the lessons

In science, motion is studied with forces: speed, pushes, pulls, and things staying still unless a force acts on them. In everyday life, «motion sickness» is feeling sick in a car, boat or plane. Phrases: «in motion», «set in motion», «slow motion», «go through the motions», «motion sensor».

### Examples

- The train was already in motion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#x1)
- Do not stand up while the bus is in motion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#x2)
- We watched the goal again in slow motion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#x3)
- She motioned for us to sit down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#x4)
- A force can change an object's motion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#x5)
- The light came on because of a motion sensor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#x6)
- Some people get motion sickness on boats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#x7)
- He watched every motion of the child. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/#x8)

### Note

Mostly uncountable (movement); countable for single movements. «Go through the motions» means do something without really caring. A school debate may start with «This house believes…», which is the motion.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says the heavens' motion is ordered by God. The "exciting intelligence" is the path that stirs all created beings into movement. In the primary lessons: In science, motion is studied with forces: speed, pushes, pulls, and things staying still unless a force acts on them. In everyday life, «motion sickness» is feeling sick in a car, boat or plane. Phrases: «in motion», «set in motion», «slow motion», «go through the motions», «motion sensor».

### Examples

- Because it regulates the motions of the Sun and Moon in their proper order, each in an orbit convenient for it. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/motion/#x1)
- The Twenty-seventh Path is the Exciting Intelligence, and it is so called bemuse by it is created the Intellect of all created beings under the highest heaven, and the excitement or motion of them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/motion/#x2)

### Note

Mostly uncountable (movement); countable for single movements. «Go through the motions» means do something without really caring. A school debate may start with «This house believes…», which is the motion.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «motion» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/motion/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«motion» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/motion.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «motion» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/motion/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«motion» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/motion.html) on Mova free.