movement vs turning

turning vs movement

movement and turning both are nouns.

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

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

movement: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
turning: a movement in a new direction

Other hyponyms of movement include crustal movement, tectonic movement, approach, approaching, passage, passing, deflection, deflexion, bend, bending, change of location, travel, undulation, wave, jitter, periodic motion, periodic movement, heave, backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion, kick, recoil, seek, squeeze, wring, cam stroke, stroke, throw, turn, twist, wrench, undulation, moving ridge, wave, wobble, commotion, whirl, Brownian motion, Brownian movement, pedesis, decelerated motion, motion with variable acceleration.

movement (noun)	turning (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
the act of changing the location of something	act of changing in practice or custom
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	the activity of shaping something on a lathe
the act of changing location from one place to another	the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)	a movement in a new direction
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)	a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe
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

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