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movement vs wave

wave vs movement

movement and wave both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while wave is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
movement Yes No No No
wave Yes No Yes No
As nouns, wave is a hyponym of movement; that is, wave is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than movement:
  • movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
  • wave: a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
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, flicker, flutter, waver, standing, span, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.
As nouns, wave is a hyponym of movement; that is, wave 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
  • wave: (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
Other hyponyms of movement include crustal movement, tectonic movement, approach, approaching, passage, passing, deflection, deflexion, bend, bending, change of location, travel, undulation, jitter, periodic motion, periodic movement, heave, backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion, kick, recoil, seek, squeeze, wring, cam stroke, stroke, throw, turn, turning, twist, wrench, undulation, moving ridge, wobble, commotion, whirl, Brownian motion, Brownian movement, pedesis, decelerated motion, motion with variable acceleration.
movement (noun) wave (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
the act of changing the location of something a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
the act of changing location from one place to another (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
a general tendency to change (as of opinion) something that rises rapidly
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something an undulating curve
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) wave (verb)
set waves in
signal with the hands or nod
move or swing back and forth
twist or roll into coils or ringlets
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
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