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movement is a noun:

  1. Physical motion between points in space.
    "I saw a movement in that grass on the hill."
  2. For a clockwork, a clock, or a watch, a device that cuts time in equal portions.
  3. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
  4. 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."
  5. A large division of a larger composition.
  6. An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
    "Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year."
  7. The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
    "The movement on his cutter was devastating."
  8. An act of emptying the bowels.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is movement?

As detailed above, 'movement' is a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
  2. Noun usage: The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
  3. Noun usage: Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
  4. Noun usage: The movement on his cutter was devastating.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of movement are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of movement, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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