Combat vs Movement - What's the difference?
combat | movement |
A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
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Physical motion between points in space.
(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
(music) A large division of a larger composition.
(aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
(baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
An act of emptying the bowels.
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(obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
As nouns the difference between combat and movement
is that combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory while movement is physical motion between points in space.As a verb combat
is to fight with; to struggle for victory against.combat
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(wikipedia combat)Noun
The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat .}}
Derived terms
* combat payVerb
- To combat with a blind man I disdain.
Anagrams
* ----movement
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
- The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
- Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
- The movement on his cutter was devastating.
