Motile vs Motion - What's the difference?
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(biology) having the power to move spontaneously
* {{quote-book
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, passage = It seemed to him that, if there were a Holy Trinity as the churches taught, this must be unified through a manner of capillary action, Father merging into Son and both into Holy Ghost. So God is motile as the blood is.
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, passage = And even if they use condoms, Wendell is young. His sperm is likely to be extremely motile .
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(psychology) of or relating to those mental images that arise from the sensations of bodily movement and position
(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.
Motile is a related term of motion.
As a adjective motile
is (biology) having the power to move spontaneously.As a noun motion is
(uncountable) a state of progression from one place to another;.As a verb motion is
to gesture indicating a desired movement.motile
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Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* sessilemotion
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(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.
- (Shakespeare)