sweep vs movement

movement vs sweep

sweep and movement both are nouns.

sweep is a verb but movement is not a verb.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of sweep include motility, motion, move.

sweep (noun)	movement (noun)
(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
a movement in an arc	the act of changing the location of something
a long oar used in an open boat	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
a wide scope	the act of changing location from one place to another
winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge	the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
someone who cleans soot from chimneys	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

sweep (verb)	movement (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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