movement vs sweep

sweep vs movement

movement and sweep both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while sweep is a verb.

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

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

movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
sweep: a movement in an arc

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, toss, quiver, quivering, vibration, wave, flicker, flutter, waver, standing, span, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.

movement (noun)	sweep (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
the act of changing the location of something	a movement in an arc
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	a long oar used in an open boat
the act of changing location from one place to another	a wide scope
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)	winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)	someone who cleans soot from chimneys
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)	sweep (verb)
	win an overwhelming victory in or on
	sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
	clean by sweeping
	make a big sweeping gesture or movement
	move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
	sweep across or over
	force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
	to cover or extend over an area or time period
	cover the entire range of

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