movement vs straddle

straddle vs movement

movement and straddle both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while straddle is a verb.

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

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

movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
straddle: 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, span, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.

movement (noun)	straddle (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	the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
the act of changing location from one place to another	a noncommittal or equivocal position
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)	straddle (verb)
	be noncommittal
	sit or stand astride of
	range or extend over; occupy a certain area

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