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# move

verb (move, moves, moved, moving); noun (a move, moves)

«move» 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. To move is to go from one place to another, or to change position. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#m1)
2. To move something is to carry or push it to another place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#m2)
3. To move house is to go and live in a new home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#m3)
4. A move is a turn or step in a game, or an action: «a smart move». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#m4)
5. To move someone is to make them feel strong feelings, like being sad or touched. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#m5)

### In the lessons

things carried from one place to another, so one group gets less and another gets more; also steps or moves in a game; in science forces make things move, and animals move by walking, swimming or flying; phrases «move in», «move out», «move on», «get a move on» (hurry), «on the move»

### Examples

- He moves 5 chairs to the other room. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#x1)
- The ant moves 3 cm each minute. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#x2)
- They moved 12 boxes into the truck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#x3)
- In the game she made 4 moves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#x4)
- Please don't move while I take the photo. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#x5)
- A push or a pull can make a ball move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#x6)
- We are moving to Toronto next summer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#x7)
- It's your move, so roll the dice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#x8)
- Even the leaves had ceased to move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/move/#x9)

### Note

Moving from A to B: subtract from A and add to B; the total stays the same. Trap: the total does not change when things only move. A moving object with a speed: distance = speed × time.

## In Jewish tradition

Used as in everyday English: the Torah forbids putting a sickle to a neighbour's standing grain, though you may pluck ears by hand. In the prophets it also means to stir a person by God's spirit, to shift something from its place, or to make a sound as of rolling wheels.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the Torah rule as a law against taking more than a passer-by's hunger needs; a worker in the field may eat but may not harvest for himself. The spirit of the LORD "moving" Samson is read as God stirring him to his work as judge.

### Examples

- When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn. (Torah DEU.23.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/move/#x1)
- And the spirit of the LORD began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. (Prophets JDG.13.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/move/#x2)
- They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. (Prophets JER.10.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/move/#x3)
- Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it. (Prophets ISA.28.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/move/#x4)

### Note

Moving from A to B: subtract from A and add to B; the total stays the same. Trap: the total does not change when things only move. A moving object with a speed: distance = speed × time.

## On Mova

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