movement vs recoil

recoil vs movement

movement and recoil both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while recoil is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
movement	Yes	No	No	No
recoil	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, recoil is a hyponym of movement; that is, recoil is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than movement:

movement: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
recoil: a movement back from an impact

Other hyponyms of movement include crustal movement, tectonic movement, approach, approaching, passage, passing, deflection, deflexion, bend, bending, change of location, travel, undulation, wave, jitter, periodic motion, periodic movement, heave, backlash, rebound, repercussion, kick, seek, squeeze, wring, cam stroke, stroke, throw, turn, turning, twist, wrench, undulation, moving ridge, wave, wobble, commotion, whirl, Brownian motion, Brownian movement, pedesis, decelerated motion, motion with variable acceleration.

movement (noun)	recoil (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	a movement back from an impact
the act of changing the location of something	the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
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)	recoil (verb)
	spring back, as from a forceful thrust
	draw back, as with fear or pain
	spring back; spring away from an impact
	come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

Difference between movement and recoil

Words related to "movement"

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