movement vs shifting

shifting vs movement

movement and shifting both are nouns.

movement is not an adjective while shifting is an adjective.

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

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

movement: the act of changing location from one place to another
shifting: the act of moving from one place to another

Other hyponyms of movement include approach, approaching, coming, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression, locomotion, travel, lunge, lurch, travel, traveling, travelling, chase, following, pursual, pursuit, ascending, ascension, ascent, rise, descent, swing, swinging, vacillation, return, coast, glide, slide, slippage, flow, stream, crawl, hurrying, speed, speeding, displacement, translation, shift, haste, hurry, rush, rushing, maneuver, manoeuvre, play, migration.

movement (noun)	shifting (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	the act of moving from one place to another
the act of changing the location of something
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 (adjective)	shifting (adjective)
	(of soil) unstable
	changing position or direction
	continuously varying

Difference between movement and shifting

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