Motion vs Exercise - What's the difference?
motion | exercise |
(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
(countable) A change of position with respect to time.
* Dr. H. More
(physics) A change from one place to another.
* 1839 , Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95
(countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
(philosophy) from ; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:
Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
* South
(legal) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
(music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion'' is that by single degrees of the scale. ''Contrary motion'' is when parts move in opposite directions. ''Disjunct motion'' is motion by skips. ''Oblique motion'' is when one part is stationary while another moves. ''Similar'' or ''direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
* Grove
(obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To gesture indicating a desired movement.
(proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
To make a proposal; to offer plans.
Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:desire of knightly exercise
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:an exercise of the eyes and memory
Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise , yet well content with the world's apportionment.
A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
*(Thomas Jefferson) (1743-1826)
*:exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature
* (1809-1892)
*:O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.
The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Lewis refused even those of the church of Englandthe public exercise of their religion.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:to draw him from his holy exercise
(lb) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Patience is more oft the exercise / Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.
To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
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To perform physical activity for health or training.
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To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
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*Bible, (w) xxii. 29
*:The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.
To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
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*(and other bibliographic particulars for citation) (John Milton)
*:Where pain of unextinguishable fire / Must exercise us without hope of end.
(lb) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
*Bible, (w) xxiv. 16
*:Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
As nouns the difference between motion and exercise
is that motion is (uncountable) a state of progression from one place to another while exercise is any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.As verbs the difference between motion and exercise
is that motion is to gesture indicating a desired movement while exercise is to exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.motion
English
(wikipedia motion)Noun
- This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion .
- Secondly, When a body is once in motion' it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its ' motion .
- The motion to amend is now open for discussion.
- Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion .
- when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had bin else a meer artificiall Adam'', such an ''Adam as he is in the motions .
- "I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical'' life to the more considerable effects of ''general Motion'' in ''Minerals'', ''Metalls'', and sundry ''Meteors'', whose easie and rude shapes may have no need of any Principle of Life, or ''Spermatical form'' distinct from the ''Rest'' or ''Motion'' of the particles of the ''Matter ."
- Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.
- The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.
- What motion' s this? the model of Nineveh?
Synonyms
* (state of progression from one place to another) movement * (change from one place to another) move, movementAntonyms
* restDerived terms
* Brownian motion * motionless * perpetual motion * perpetual motion machineVerb
(en verb)- He motioned for me to come closer.
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