span vs movement

movement vs span

span and movement both are nouns.

span is a verb but movement is not a verb.

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

As nouns, movement is a hypernym of span; that is, movement is a word with a broader meaning than span:

span: the act of sitting or standing astride
movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location

Other hypernyms of span include motility, motion, move.

span (noun)	movement (noun)
the act of sitting or standing astride	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.	the act of changing the location of something
the distance or interval between two points	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)	the act of changing location from one place to another
two items of the same kind	the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
the complete duration of something	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

span (verb)	movement (verb)
to cover or extend over an area or time period

Difference between span and movement

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