What does "move" mean?
Move: (Chess, Checkers, etc.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
Additional senses
- 2.To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold. Knolles. No female arts his mind could move. Dryden.
- 3.To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion. Shak. When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. Matt. ix.
- 4.[The use of images] in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror. Felton.
- 5.To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn. Let me but move one question to your daughter. Shak. They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects. Hayward.
- 6.To apply to, as for aid. [Obs.] Shak.
- 7.To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly. The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. Ps. xviii.
- 8.On the green bank I sat and listened long, ... Nor till her lay was ended could I move. Dryden.
- 9.To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.
- 10.To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.
- 11.(Chess, Checkers, etc.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.
- 12.The act of moving; a movement.
- 13.(Chess, Checkers, etc.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game.
- 14.An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. To make a move. (a) To take some action. (b) To move a piece, as in a game. -- To be on the move, to bustle or stir about. [Colloq.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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