I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
motion picture
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the motion picture industry
motion sickness
perpetual motion
propose a motion/amendment/resolution etc
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The resolution was proposed by the chairman of the International Committee.
second a motion/proposal/amendment etc
slow motion
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Let’s see that goal again in slow motion.
time and motion study
travel/motion/car/sea etc sickness (= sickness that some people get while travelling )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
circular
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When considering circular motion it is often easier to work in terms of the angular velocity rather than ordinary linear velocity.
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In fact, each individual drop of water is describing a circular motion which takes it nowhere overall.
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Why then does the sun appear to set and to have a circular motion around the Earth?
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It lacks the qualities associated with the perfection of the celestial sphere: circular motion , elemental purity, immutability.
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He made a circular motion with closed fingers.
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Thus the poem has a circular motion corresponding to the circular shape of the object it describes.
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Knead the fondant or marzipan thoroughly, using a circular motion to spread the colour evenly.
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With shoes off, make a circular motion with the feet to the count of 10, Levi suggested.
constant
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The particles in a liquid, like those in a gas, are in a state of constant motion .
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The constant motion of the crowds continued to stir the dust.
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Though the movements are gentle and slow, each part of the body is in constant motion .
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One man said his feet and eyes were in constant motion .
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Leaves and small twigs in constant motion .
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Loose eggs will hatch if vigorous aeration keeps them in constant motion .
forward
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The melodious sound and the forward motion ceased, and he was floating in a hazy limbo of silence, listening intently.
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The train staggers into forward motion , then settles into a slow, heavy glide of about five miles per hour.
full
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In the case of full motion video, the need for very fast information retrieval is acute.
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Is full frame, full motion video really important?
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First, is between 12 and 15 frames per second full motion ?
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This is the rate of data transfer needed to produce television quality video in full motion on a full screen.
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Using this process, full motion , full frame video can be delivered together with the full range of other media types.
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It can not deliver full frame, full motion video although this may be available in later models.
perpetual
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The brash internet entrepreneurs of a year ago seemed to think they had discovered the financial equivalent of perpetual motion .
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Then, my dear Summerlee, it is that most wonderful of devices: a perpetual motion machine!
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It was in perpetual motion up to and including the moment they all sat in each other's seats.
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The cyclical exchange of payments for factors of production and payments for final goods becomes a perpetual motion machine.
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Within the Boundless, which is in perpetual motion , worlds, including our world, come into being and pass away.
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Earthquakes line the borders of the tectonic plates and are symptoms of the perpetual motion inside our planet.
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I can only trace them in their perpetual slow motion upward.
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And you were accusing me of being a perpetual motion merchant.
slow
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Do the postures continuously, in graceful slow motion with each exercise leading into the next.
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There also were beetles crawling on the ice in slow motion .
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As he neared me his steps became more deliberate until he was in slow motion .
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Everything seemed to proceed in slow motion .
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The ball continues its slow but dogged motion , brakes at a patch of dust, trickles on, and mockingly drops.
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He ate his tiny ration of cereal in mournful slow motion , to illustrate his unhappiness.
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Most would agree, with hindsight, that everything seemed to happen in slow motion , during and after the murder.
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He felt as if everyone else, the whole street, the whole afternoon, went into slow motion .
■ NOUN
confidence
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His concern was justified when the no confidence motion was defeated by only 447 votes to 412.
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Defeat on a confidence motion would prompt an early general election.
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He remains Prime Minister until he chooses to resign or is defeated on a confidence motion in the House.
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Later on Nov. 23 the no confidence motion was defeated by 201 votes to 159, with six abstentions.
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Kohl, like Brandt in 1972, engineered the vote by deliberately losing a confidence motion in the Bundestag.
guillotine
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Three guillotine motions were tabled for discussion of the Bill that became the Education Reform Act 1988.
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A guillotine motion was carried and, after amendment, the bills were accepted.
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Mr. Foot Hon. Members will not be able to have a proper debate on a guillotine motion without me.
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If this guillotine motion goes through, what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs?
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Before the guillotine motion , the longest speech in those proceedings was by the then Minister of State.
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It is shocking that a guillotine motion should be produced in such circumstances.
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There is no doubt about it - he knows perfectly well the reason why he is introducing this guillotine motion .
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Not only are guillotine motions being introduced with phenomenal frequency; they are being introduced at a very early stage.
picture
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What had to be done was that motion pictures had to be made respectable.
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Those who invest with him get the motion picture -- meaning his ongoing judgment, including when to sell.
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Meanwhile I was developing a liking for the motion picture business with Miss Hellen Semmens as a central point of interest.
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As per above, but for motion pictures .
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On a motion picture I have a team of anywhere from one hundred to two hundred people.
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Creativity is required, then, for the banker as well as the motion picture director.
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The revolution began with the invention of motion picture film early in the twentieth century.
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She became adept at filming with a motion picture camera as well as still camera.
sickness
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They were useful for treating allergic disorders and also as sedatives and remedies for motion sickness .
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By manipulating how the virtual scene moves with your body movements, we may be able to help people with motion sickness .
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We are investigating the possibility that motion sickness may be a factor in the unpleasantness of transportation.
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They were able to read without the usual motion sickness they frequently get riding in a car.
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In fact, some players report motion sickness .
video
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In the case of full motion video , the need for very fast information retrieval is acute.
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As far as motion video , in particular, is concerned, the constraints of available technology force multimedia into a seemingly impossible situation.
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Full motion video is not quite within the reach of us mortals, despite the protestations of the add men.
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Multimedia Presentation Manager/2 is included and adds enhanced audio, basic image and software motion video playback capabilities.
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Is full frame, full motion video really important?
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Now let us look at television information and gain some sense of the amount of data needed to represent motion video .
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They claim that the dial up approach cuts the cost of two-way motion video by up to 90 percent.
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It can not deliver full frame, full motion video although this may be available in later models.
■ VERB
approve
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We owe them that and I think that the House should approve the guillotine motion .
carry
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The University Labour Federation failed to carry its motion to reject the report.
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He carried his motion by 44 votes to 1.
defeat
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Eloquence alone was sufficient to defeat the motion .
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I do not know if Nico is looking for more time, or trying to defeat the motion .
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He remains Prime Minister until he chooses to resign or is defeated on a confidence motion in the House.
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Earlier yesterday the government had defeated an opposition censure motion in the lower house of parliament.
file
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Gen Jaruzelski's defence lawyers first filed a motion requesting more evidence from prosecutors before charges were laid.
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So far this year, it has filed two motions for injunctions against a planned federal inquest on sects and cults.
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When Acevedo refused to provide names, the city filed a motion to terminate her workers' compensation benefits.
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The law requires courts to hold up most discovery proceedings until companies can file a motion to dismiss a suit.
go
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Still others go through the motions but without any real desire to improve the relationship.
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We fool ourselves by thinking we can go on automatic pilot, that we can survive by going through the motions .
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The choice that is left is to go through the motions either with counterfeit conviction, or with subversion and disdain.
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I could see the rounds hitting the water close to me, and everything went in slow motion .
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The next moment Mrs Taxos gave a mighty yell and slapped the donkey's rump and they went into motion .
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They begin to go through motions of dancing, holding on to the steel poles that support the ceiling, jerking mechanically.
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But even they seemed to be going through the motions , quite without conviction.
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He felt as if everyone else, the whole street, the whole afternoon, went into slow motion .
move
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I therefore move the motion with a glass of privatised water ready to hand.
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When he moves , his motions appear uncontrived.
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The characters in the bar seemed to be moving with slow jarring motions .
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That has continually happened when other hon. Members have sought to move the carry-over motion .
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He was moving in slow motion when Jimmy let off a sudden burst that sent chunks of sidewalk flying everywhere.
pass
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Bowel training showed less social class difference possibly because there are clearer anticipating signs of passing a motion .
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He passes quickly on our motions for production.
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At that time there was a widespread practice of holding the child over a newspaper for passing a motion .
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After hearing from about a dozen pissed-off citizens, they passed the motion 3-0.
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Later the child is encouraged to pass motions while in the bathroom or lavatory.
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Once this is well established the sticker is only awarded for passing a motion into the lavatory.
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Luke, a 4-year-old boy, would sit on his heels in order not to pass a motion .
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He refused to pass motions in the toilet and had phases of extreme stomach-ache and lethargy due to his extreme constipation.
propose
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In March 1922 Steel-Maitland proposed a strong motion of confidence in Younger that was a clear rebuke to his critics.
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It would be a formality for a representative of the Assembly to ask the Archon to propose the opening motion .
put
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I shower in lukewarm water and decide on thick white running shorts and matching top which I put on in slow motion .
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The President would lose the right to put down a motion for the government's dismissal.
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In July and August the process of selling the 99 separate state-owned forests was put in motion .
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There was no desperate urgency, I said, but wheels should be put in motion .
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Coun Peter Jones has put forward a special motion to the next full council meeting on March 26.
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Mr Trimble's opponents within unionism say they will put forward a motion to exclude Sinn Fein from government.
second
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He sat down to applause and was followed by H B Beale from Gloucestershire who seconded the motion .
set
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The programme had lost the man responsible for setting it in motion .
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A weight suspended on the end of a piece of string and then set in motion acts as a pendulum.
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Once set in motion this requires only the periodic visit to negotiate such matters as price changes.
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Life should do more than spin on like an idiotic top some one had set in motion but could no longer stop.
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The wheels have already been set in motion .
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In any case, an irresponsible control program has been set in motion without sufficient information as to its future effects.
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When the glass was touched, the mechanism was set in motion .
support
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I did not support the timetable motion and believe that my decision was right.
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He could not support the motion in its entirety.
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Unions supporting the motion included the transport workers, shop workers and public employees.
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I hope that the House will support the motion .
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We must have the proposals in it, so I hope that all my hon. Friends will support the motion .
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There is no way that I will support the guillotine motion .
table
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Mr. Renton I know that the hon. Gentleman tabled an early-day motion on the subject a short time ago.
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The move came after a vote by regents indefinitely tabling a motion to rescind their July 20 vote revising admissions policies.
vote
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They wanted them to vote against a motion to ban hunting on all county council owned land.
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I will be voting for the motion .
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And he carried that Conservative generation to vote a motion which preferred Liberalism to Conservatism as the better future for the country.
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Many councillors said they felt compelled to vote against the motion because they believed in the tenant farmers freedom of choice.
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Many Opposition Members who will obey the three-line Whip and vote against the motion will do so with a heavy heart.
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I was not shown as voting for the Government motion in Division 15.
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The players are sure to vote in favour of the motion to play for the honour and not the cash.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
put down a motion/an amendment
set the wheels in motion/set the wheels turning
table a proposal/question/motion etc
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Baldwin tabled proposals which involved payments of £34 million a year.
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Even our own wets will summon up the courage to table a question or two.
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He has tabled a question on the issue for tomorrow's council meeting.
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If the hon. Gentleman wants to table a question or write to me, I shall be glad to enlarge upon that.
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The move came after a vote by regents indefinitely tabling a motion to rescind their July 20 vote revising admissions policies.
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The Umpires' Association had planned to table a motion giving an official vote of support for Lamb.
vote of no-confidence/no-confidence vote/motion of no-confidence etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a smooth throwing motion
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For any exercise with a bending motion , the knees must be slightly bent.
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the gentle rolling motion of the ship
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All motion is of course relative.
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Geometry, then, is concerned with the production of figures by various motions.
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I look forward to smoother graphs of pendulum motion !
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Immediately after the motion was read on the floor, it was tabled by a near-party line vote.
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It takes a day at least for me to become accustomed to the motion of the ship.
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Its motion can be detected - for example, by deflecting a laser beam that bounces off a mirror attached to the needle.
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Older men and women are running motion offense drills, practicing low post moves.
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Slow at first, the motion gathered speed until it was too dazzling for the eye to follow.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
say
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Jane said , motioning her away.
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Larwood said Jardine motioned the field to the leg side.
set
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Assets abroad were frozen by the U. N. These events set into motion the erasure of the middle class.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
set the wheels in motion/set the wheels turning
vote of no-confidence/no-confidence vote/motion of no-confidence etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kemp started to object, but I motioned him to be quiet.
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Neil finished his meal, and then motioned to the waitress.
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Seeing Bert in the doorway, I motioned for him to come in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dunne motioned to the bartender, who refilled their glasses again.
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He motioned to the barman to refill their glasses, a feeling of satisfaction running through him.
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I motioned to her to sit down and we started on the mail.
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Mrs Vanya turned on a weak light, and motioned for me to sit.
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The gun motions for John to rise.
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The oldest daughter motioned to the third daughter, who tiptoed into the circle the women had made around the old man.
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The Sheikh motioned us to sit down, left his men outside, and picked up the phone on the table.