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Fetter vs Movement - What's the difference?

fetter | movement |

As nouns the difference between fetter and movement

is that fetter is a chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) while movement is physical motion between points in space.

As a verb fetter

is to shackle or bind up with fetters.

fetter

English

(wikipedia fetter)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) .
  • (figurative) Anything that restricts or restrains.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1675 , author=John Dryden , title=Aureng-zebe , section=Prologue citation , passage=Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 citation , passage=He looks upon study as an odious' ' fetter ; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1910 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Erwin Rosen , title=In the Foreign Legion , chapter=Prolog citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters , and I fought a hard fight for a new career … }}

    Synonyms

    (chains on legs) * leg irons

    Hyponyms

    (chain binding generally) * handcuff, handcuffs * leg irons * manacle, manacles * shackle, shackles

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shackle or bind up with fetters
  • To restrain or impede; to hamper.

    • Derived terms

    * unfetter

    Hyponyms

    * handcuff * manacle * shackle

    movement

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Physical motion between points in space.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
  • (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
    • The movement on his cutter was devastating.
  • An act of emptying the bowels.
  • *
  • (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

    • Synonyms

    * (motion between points in space) motion

    Antonyms

    * (motion between points in space) stasis

    Derived terms

    (derived terms of "movement") * art movement * bowel movement * Brownian movement * camera movement * choreiform movement * countermovement * cultural movement * ecumenical movement * freedom of movement * human movement * literary movement * new religious movement * Oxford movement * Protestant Movement * rapid eye movement * social movement * wh-movement

    Related terms

    * move

    See also

    * speed * symphony * vector * velocity ----