English Dictionary

motion

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈməʊ.ʃən/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 廃用 婉語

(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another. / (countable) A change of position with respect to time. / (physics) A change from one place to another.

日本語の意味

（不可算）ある場所から別の場所への進行状態、すなわち動き・移動の状態 / （可算）時間の経過に伴う位置の変化、位置の移動 / （物理学）一地点から別の地点への位置の変化、運動

The gentle motion of the train lulled him to sleep.

列車の穏やかな動きが彼を眠らせた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.

意味（2）

(countable) A change of position with respect to time.

This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion.

意味（3）

(physics) A change from one place to another.

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.

意味（4）

(countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.

The motion to amend is now open for discussion.

意味（5）

(obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.

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.

意味（6）

(philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.

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.

意味（7）

Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.

意味（8）

(law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.

意味（9）

(euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.

From that time to the present (three weeks) she has taken one pill every night, and had one comfortable motion every morning without the aid of any other aperient, and her health has much improved.

意味（10）

(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.)

The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.

意味（11）

(obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.

What motion's this? the model of Nineveh?

意味（12）

(mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.

… three 2-4-2 tank engines were secured from the Hunslet Engine Co. of Leeds. As the line began on the Quay in Bideford, the locomotives had their motion encased, as shown in the illustrations on page 414.

motions （ plural ）