move

Everyday

1. To move is to go from one place to another, or to change position. tree →
2. To move something is to carry or push it to another place. tree →
3. To move house is to go and live in a new home. tree →
4. A move is a turn or step in a game, or an action: «a smart move». tree →
5. To move someone is to make them feel strong feelings, like being sad or touched. tree →

In the lessons

things carried from one place to another, so one group gets less and another gets more; also steps or moves in a game; in science forces make things move, and animals move by walking, swimming or flying; phrases «move in», «move out», «move on», «get a move on» (hurry), «on the move»

Examples

• He moves 5 chairs to the other room. tree →
• The ant moves 3 cm each minute. tree →
• They moved 12 boxes into the truck. tree →
• In the game she made 4 moves. tree →
• Please don't move while I take the photo. tree →
• A push or a pull can make a ball move. tree →
• We are moving to Toronto next summer. tree →
• It's your move, so roll the dice. tree →
• Even the leaves had ceased to move. tree →

Note

Moving from A to B: subtract from A and add to B; the total stays the same. Trap: the total does not change when things only move. A moving object with a speed: distance = speed × time.

In Jewish tradition

Used as in everyday English: the Torah forbids putting a sickle to a neighbour's standing grain, though you may pluck ears by hand. In the prophets it also means to stir a person by God's spirit, to shift something from its place, or to make a sound as of rolling wheels.

Interpretation. Tradition reads the Torah rule as a law against taking more than a passer-by's hunger needs; a worker in the field may eat but may not harvest for himself. The spirit of the LORD "moving" Samson is read as God stirring him to his work as judge.

Examples

• When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn. (Torah DEU.23.25, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the spirit of the LORD began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. (Prophets JDG.13.25, JPS 1917) tree →
• They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. (Prophets JER.10.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it. (Prophets ISA.28.28, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Moving from A to B: subtract from A and add to B; the total stays the same. Trap: the total does not change when things only move. A moving object with a speed: distance = speed × time.