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movement vs squirm

squirm vs movement

movement and squirm both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while squirm is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
movement Yes No No No
squirm Yes No Yes No
As nouns, squirm is a hyponym of movement; that is, squirm is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than movement:
  • movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
  • squirm: the act of wiggling
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, span, straddle, stroke, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.
movement (noun) squirm (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location the act of wiggling
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 (verb) squirm (verb)
to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
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