movement vs span

span vs movement

movement and span both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while span is a verb.

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

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

movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
span: the act of sitting or standing astride

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, flicker, flutter, waver, standing, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.

movement (noun)	span (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	the act of sitting or standing astride
the act of changing the location of something	a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	the distance or interval between two points
the act of changing location from one place to another	a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)	two items of the same kind
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)	the complete duration of something
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)	span (verb)
	to cover or extend over an area or time period

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