movement vs reform

reform vs movement

movement and reform both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while reform is a verb.

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

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

movement: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
reform: a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices

Other hyponyms of movement include ad blitz, ad campaign, advertising campaign, anti-war movement, charm campaign, consumerism, campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign, fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort, feminism, feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement, gay lib, gay liberation movement, lost cause, war, youth crusade, youth movement.

movement (noun)	reform (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses
the act of changing the location of something	a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice
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)	reform (verb)
	make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
	break up the molecules of
	produce by cracking
	change for the better
	bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
	improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition

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