Crossword-Solution: MOTION 6 letters, 108 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Motion	n.	The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
Motion	n.	Power of, or capacity for, motion.
Motion	n.	Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
Motion	n.	Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
Motion	n.	Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
Motion	n.	A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
Motion	n.	An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
Motion	n.	Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
Motion	n.	A puppet show or puppet.
Motion	v. i.	To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
Motion	v. i.	To make proposal; to offer plans.
Motion	v. t.	To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
Motion	v. t.	To propose; to move.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
MOTION	anagram	MONITO

We have 108 clues for the answer “MOTION”

Clue	Answers
"I call the question," e.g.	1 answer
Attorney's proposal to a judge	1 answer
Byrd or Hatch offering	1 answer
Court request	1 answer
Courtroom request	1 answer
Formal proposal put to a vote	1 answer
It may be carried in a boardroom	1 answer
It may be seconded	1 answer
It's seconded at meetings	1 answer
Kinetics concern	1 answer
Legislative proposal	1 answer
MAKE significant gesture to	1 answer
Make a gesture	1 answer
Netonian concern	1 answer
One may be on the floor	1 answer
Parliamentarian's proposal	1 answer
Parliamentary act	1 answer
Parliamentary proposal	1 answer
Proposal made in an assembly.	1 answer
Proposal on Capitol Hill	1 answer
Security lighting trigger	1 answer
Senate-floor proposal	1 answer
Slow _ _ _; VIDEO FOOTAGE THAT HAS BEEN SLOWED DOWN	1 answer
Something to second	1 answer
Statement to a chair of a meeting	1 answer
Subject of kinetics	1 answer
Subject of three laws of Newton	1 answer
Thing to carry in a boardroom	1 answer
What triggers some alarms	1 answer
Word with "detector" or "picture"	1 answer
debatable idea	1 answer
instance of changing place	1 answer
the act of changing location from one place to another	1 answer
the movement of people from the farms to the cities	1 answer
Hand movement	2 answers
Newtonian concern	2 answers
Formal proposal	2 answers
Legal maneuver	2 answers
physical jerks	2 answers
Chairman's concern	3 answers
HYDRODYNAMICS, subject of	3 answers
muscular effort	3 answers
Kind of detector	3 answers
MINOR concession	3 answers
successive change of place	4 answers
exchange signals	8 answers
look volumes	8 answers
transit	8 answers
evacuation	8 answers
shattered silence	10 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EERTA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble MOTION 6-letter words that start with M 6-letter words that end in N 6-letter words containing OT 6-letter words containing ON 6-letter words with M and O

Sentences with MOTION (5)

Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful Lake benumme not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Michael’s, a distance of seven miles, and in half an hour afterwards you would see him coiled up in the corner of the wood-fence, watching every motion of the slaves.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Perhaps he did not remember—perhaps he had never noticed! Emil was already at the other end of the hall, walking about with the shoulder-motion he had acquired among the Mexicans, studying the floor with his intent, deep-set eyes.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, first enlarging the consciousness with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are horizontal and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

His spirit could never, I conceive, have been characterized by an uneasy activity; it must, at any period of his life, have required an impulse to set him in motion; but once stirred up, with obstacles to overcome, and an adequate object to be attained, it was not in the man to give out or fail.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with MOTION (3)

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkner

To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that is you And know there is more That you can't see, can't hear Can't know except in moments Steadly growing, and in languages That aren't always sound but other Circles of motion. Like eagle that Sunday morning Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky In wind, swept our hearts clean With sacred wings. We see you, see ourselves and know That we must take the utmost care And kindness in all thi…

Joy Harjo

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.

Criss Jami Healology

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 34 times in crossword archives (1956–2024).