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movement vs flicker

flicker vs movement

movement and flicker both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while flicker is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
movement Yes No No No
flicker Yes No Yes No
As nouns, flicker is a hyponym of movement; that is, flicker is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than movement:
  • movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
  • flicker: the act of moving back and forth
Other hyponyms of movement include abduction, adduction, agitation, body English, circumduction, disturbance, fetal movement, foetal movement, dart, flit, gesture, headshake, headshaking, inclination, inclining, eversion, everting, inversion, inversion, upending, jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade, kick, kicking, kneel, kneeling, lurch, pitch, pitching, eye movement, opening, prostration, reach, reaching, stretch, reciprocation, reclining, retraction, retroflection, retroflexion, rotary motion, rotation, closing, shutting, sitting, posing, sitting, snap, squat, squatting, sweep, toss, quiver, quivering, vibration, wave, flutter, waver, standing, span, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.
movement (noun) flicker (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location the act of moving back and forth
the act of changing the location of something North American woodpecker
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end a momentary flash of light
the act of changing location from one place to another
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
a euphemism for defecation
movement (verb) flicker (verb)
move back and forth very rapidly
flash intermittently
shine unsteadily
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