moving

/'mu:viɳ/

Thân thiện

A child watches a moving picture of a train on a screen.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing strong emotions, especially sadness or sympathy: Describes something that evokes deep feelings, often making people feel touched, sad, or compassionate.
   • In motion; changing position or location: Describes something that is not stationary but is actively changing its place or position.
   • Relating to or involved in a change of residence: Pertaining to the act of transporting belongings from one home to another.

Usage

• As an adjective, "moving" typically comes before a noun (e.g., a moving speech) or after a linking verb like "be" or "find" (e.g., The film was deeply moving).
• It describes the effect something has on a person's emotions or the physical state of an object.

Examples

• Emotional Sense:
• Physical Motion Sense:
• Relocation Sense:

Advanced Usage

• "A moving force": A person or thing that stimulates change or action.
• "Moving and shaking" (informal): Being actively involved in influencing events or people.

Variants and Related Words

• Move (verb): To change position or cause to change position; to provoke an emotional response.
• Movement (noun): The act or process of moving; a group of people working together for a cause.
• Movingly (adverb): In a manner that arouses deep emotion.
• Moving picture (noun, phrase): An old-fashioned term for a motion picture or film.

Synonyms

• Emotional Sense: Touching, poignant, affecting, heartrending, stirring.
• Physical Motion Sense: In motion, mobile, active, operational, traveling.
• Relocation Sense: Relocating, transporting.

Antonyms

• Emotional Sense: Unaffecting, unemotional, unmoving, dull.
• Physical Motion Sense: Stationary, still, static, fixed, immobile.

Related Phrases

• Get moving (phrasal verb): To start going or to hurry up.
• Moving on (phrasal verb): To leave a place, situation, or topic and proceed to another.
• Moving target: Something that is changing constantly, making it difficult to focus on or hit.

Idioms

• A moving experience: An event that causes strong emotions.
• Pull a moving job (slang): To steal furniture or belongings from a house, especially while the occupants are moving.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion
   • Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or `the movies'
2. arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion
   • she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter- N. Hawthorne
3. in motion
   • a constantly moving crowd
   • the moving parts of the machine