movement vs waver

waver vs movement

movement and waver both are nouns.

movement is not a verb while waver is a verb.

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

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

movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
waver: the act of moving back and forth

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, standing, span, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.

movement (noun)	waver (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	the act of moving back and forth
the act of changing the location of something	the act of pausing uncertainly
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	someone who communicates by waving
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)	waver (verb)
	give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
	sway from side to side
	move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
	move back and forth very rapidly
	move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
	pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
	be unsure or weak

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