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Definitions
- 1. (of sth) to move
- 2. to set in movement
- 3. to displace
- 4. to touch
- 5. to make use of
- 6. to stir (emotions)
- 7. to alter
Example Sentences
1 shown别 动 ！
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 动
car sickness
to mix; to stir
escalator
mobile warfare
economic activity
before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers
femoral artery
Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea
lower animal
student movement
motionless
driving force
reeducation through labor
momentum
magnetomotive force
transitive verb
motive power
to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk
to alter
(to act) on one's own initiative
echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
a leather drive belt
motor vehicle
dynamic memory
an electric turntable
world-shaking (idiom)
rhythm
vertebrate paleontology
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of \rightists\ after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
to pull out
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
bank autoteller
rally
extreme sport
Olympic Games
to link
mobile
to get angry
sports shoes
to break ground (prior to building sth)
unmoved
to set about (a task)
kinesthesia
active desktop
water sports
place for activities (playground, event venue etc)
ciliary dynein protein
International Labor Day (May Day)
operation
skiing
political movement
worker; laborer
intransitive verb
sports competition
moving walkway
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
appreciating the arts
to stir
to move (to pity)
athlete
transmission belt
promoter
auxiliary verb; modal verb
dynamic update (Internet)
modal verb (e.g. 肯[kěn], 能[néng], 會|会[huì], 要[yào], 該|该[gāi], 得[děi], 願意|愿意[yuàn yì], 可以[kě yǐ], 可能[kě néng], 敢[gǎn], 應該|应该[yīng gāi])
cellular automaton
fake move or pass (sports)
computer animation
water sports (sailing, windsurfing etc)
ByteDance, Beijing-based Internet technology company, founded in 2012
electric-powered
a gentleman uses his mouth and not his fist
to float
May Fourth Movement
animate noun
drive (transmission in an engine)
to cause a sensation (idiom)
interactive TV
Comintern
fixed point theorem (math.)
agricultural activities
to incite
aorta
to spur
espionage
to sway
mammal
to flip over
to incite
labor insurance
wild animal
animal fat
faulted at every turn (idiom); can't get anything right
pneumatic
to start
to push (for acceptance of a plan)
to pull (a trigger)
to touch
dynamics (math.)
Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea
reactionary forces (esp. in Marxist rhetoric)
sports shirt
to sway
saccade
to fiddle with
crime of conspiring to overthrow the state
to wave sth
to respond instantly
communications automation
body-building
charity event
manual
Socialist Education Movement (1963-66), formal name of the Four Cleanups Movement 四清運動|四清运动[sì qīng yùn dòng]
cultural movement aspiring to study and emulate classic works, at different periods of history, esp. Tang and Song
aerodynamic noise
to be moved
inanimate noun
quantum chromodynamics (particle physics)
eye movement technique
manual gear change
to drag
transmission system
electric motor
(one's) every word and deed (idiom)
electric chain pulley block
(idiom) the sooner you set to work, the sooner you'll reap the rewards
vivid
money in circulation
special detachment
crustacean
brake
pleasant to listen to
four-wheel drive
dynamic equilibrium
soft-bodied organisms
initiative (as in \seize the initiative\)
office automation
draft animals
Cnidaria (animal phylum including jellyfish and sessile polyps)
to stir up
estrogen
to exercise
Operation Blessing (charitable relief organization)
to use violence (against sb)
flatworm; phylum of Platyhelminthes
sense of movement (often in a static work of art)
quantum electrodynamics QED
aerodynamic force
automation
to start up (a motor)
brachiopod
capillary artery
labor contract
zoo
angular momentum
diesel engine
lit. pulling a single hair makes the whole body move (idiom)
animal
to use force
fixed point (of a map) (math.)
totally unaffected
volcanic activity
flexibility
plants and animals
estrogen
kinetic energy
second-hand smoking
social actions
(election) campaign
automation
to utilize
purge of counterrevolutionaries (esp. Mao's purge of hidden counterrevolutionaries 1955-56 and Stalin's Great Purge 1936-38)
cell phone network
seismic zone
Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾|乔治·奥威尔[qiáo zhì · ào wēi ěr]
Trud (Russian newspaper)
motor vehicle
to remain unmoved
parking brake
anti-inflammatory (medicine)
to entice
security automation
rotation
to start (a machine)
May Day
to roll
The Sound and the Fury (novel by William Faulkner 威廉·福克納|威廉·福克纳[wēi lián · fú kè nà])
professional (athlete)
Hundred Flowers Campaign (PRC, 1956-57), in which Mao called for the taboo on discussing mistakes of the CCP to be lifted
to talk
to alarm everyone
simple harmonic oscillation
bad habit (e.g. nose-picking)
to undulate
see 驚心動魄|惊心动魄[jīng xīn dòng pò]
action plan
animacy
campaign against pornography
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个[gè])
automated teller machine (ATM)
mobility
movable property
to muster large forces
mobile device (smartphone, tablet, etc)
the two mass scuttling operations carried out by the German navy: the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 and Operation Regenbogen, the scuttling of U-boats in 1945
cryptozoology
National Intercity Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1988
to sit still and do nothing
sex drive
(detectable) movement
to be quick-witted
zero-COVID (policy)
to use one's brain
December 9th Movement (1935), student-led demonstrations demanding that the Chinese government resist Japanese aggression
active immunity
mobile telephone
to pound
the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party
protozoan (bacteria)
driving force
triploblastic animals (having three germ layers)
military operation
chordata
to rotate (about an axis)
to take the initiative
may I ask
reptile
movement
motive power
starter button
cardiogram (medicine)
Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾|乔治·奥威尔[qiáo zhì · ào wēi ěr]
thunderous applause (idiom)
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
linking verb
moving average (in financial analysis)
coronary artery
to quiver
to begin to stir (idiom)
to reboot; to restart
precession (physics)
harmonic oscillation (e.g. sound wave)
scavenger
(zoology) phylum Porifera (sponges)
to have an urge
sports
passive
annelid (worm)
act
brake pedal
ungulates (animals with hooves)
sports field
harmonic oscillation
to pull
Boxer Rebellion
vending machine
environmentalism
motionless
jukebox
slack
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 洋務運動|洋务运动
verbal classifier (in Chinese grammar)
rigid rotation
fetal movement
to shift
active immunity
automatic clutch
to get serious about sth
to shift sth with a crowbar etc
to move one's lips
Porifera (phylum of sponges)
to flow
gear drive
sticking unmoving to the original (idiom); not an iota changed
to get angry
motivation
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
locomotive
to shake
lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom)
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
-driven (of mechanism, driven by a component)
sabotage; subversive activities
turbojet
to fan
herbivore
strike-slip fault (geology)
at the drop of a hat
autoboxing (computing)
verb reduplication
working people
to move
to start (a building project)
to affect
classification of animals
verb
World Games
to sway
to interact
automatic tool changer (ATC)
laws of motion (mechanics)
eumetazoa
animated graphics
to brake
transverse vibration
to speak in a pleasant and captivating manner (idiom)
drive
sunspot activity
heartbeat
to start out on a trip
aspect particle, such as 著|着[zhe], 了[le], 過|过[guò]
provocative
aerobics
the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 張衡|张衡[zhāng héng] in 132
the more knowledgeable, the more reactionary (absurd anti-intellectual slogan attributed after the event to the Gang of Four 四人幫|四人帮[sì rén bāng])
East Asian Games
active
to admire
clay animation
tectonic movement
crustal movement
automatic transmission
(automobile) transmission
to operate by means of a pedal
zoological
to turn sth around
motive force
to shake
to change
to shake heaven and earth (idiom)
moment of inertia (mechanics)
to use one's brains
(of a breeze) to make (hair, leaves, clothing etc) sway gently
pharmacokinetics
dynamic-link library (DLL)
concept-driven processing
see 動嘴皮|动嘴皮[dòng zuǐ pí]
to move as in a dance
mountain building (geology)
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
social activity
semiautomatic
flowing; shifting
Rectification campaign
labor force
class A protected animal
the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 張衡|张衡[zhāng héng] in 132
to come to blows
to do (sth) oneself
to twitch
power reactor
to be quick to take offense; to have a short fuse
pneumatic brake
the Save the Nation Anti-Japanese Protest Movement stemming from the Manchurian railway incident of 18th July 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变
action movie
to vibrate
structured note (finance)
to open and close (the mouth etc)
shocking; shattering
to flicker or flash
ruminant
to move about
engine; motor
hydraulic drive
the Great Sparrow Campaign or the Four Pests Campaign, one of the actions during the Great Leap Forward 大躍進|大跃进[dà yuè jìn] aiming to eliminate four pests: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows
jersey
(coll.) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
boot sector (computing)
incitement to subvert state power (criminal charge used to gag free speech)
automatic control
absolutely still
mechanical pencil
insurrection
disk drive
arthropod, segmented animals with jointed limbs
transient population
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
to rush indiscriminately into action
to be watched closely (idiom)
feed made of animal products
to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral); to encourage; to agitate; to instigate; to incite
to motivate
(coll.) to tamper with
euphemism for Japanese porn movie
free time (between organized activities)
artery
to not move a single jot (idiom)
to take action
dynamic webpage
to conspire
to put into action
Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915) or National Protection War, a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[yuán shì kǎi] as emperor
reflex action
performance artist
to wriggle
to get excited
to use one's mouth (to say sth)
eye movement recording
productive labor
National Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1959
Brownian motion
AED (automated external defibrillator)
milling crowds
herbivore
video
carotid artery (medicine)
animation
signature move
eye movement
rotor
pulse
not a word or movement (idiom); remaining calm and collected
arthropod
the crime of instigating counterrevolutionary propaganda
omnivore
turmoil
current liability
easily
transmission ratio
activist
to stir restlessly
to change gear
to wiggle
drive shaft
spontaneous recovery
sports
(gaming) action points (points required to complete an action)
power car
all-wheel drive
pharmacokinetics
mental labor
mammals
(financial reporting) current assets
aneurysm
to persuade
reactionaries; reactionary elements
animated film
automated teller machine (ATM)
mobile telephone
to vibrate
scrollbar (computing)
to move (sb)
see 百花運動|百花运动[bǎi huā yùn dòng]
actin
motion of no confidence (against the government, in parliamentary debates)
life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations)
(idiom) heart-stopping; hair-raising; breathtaking
to move
to be emotionally moved
wildlife park
anti-Yuan movement, opposing Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[yuán shì kǎi] in National Protection War 護國戰爭|护国战争[hù guó zhàn zhēng] 1915-1916
Vertebrata, the phylum of vertebrates
Enclosure Movement
action plan
anti-imperialist movement of 30th May 1925, involving general strike esp. in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong etc
unable to move freely
to shake (a part of one's body)
sluggish
non-motorized vehicle
to throb
aloof
aerodynamics
unsusceptible to change
pharmacokinetics
women's movement
hardening of the arteries
to stir
athlete
freedom of action
sensational effect
movable
to feel a rush of excitement (idiom)
labor camp
manual gearbox
coronary bypass operation
to beat rhythmically
disturbance; uproar
(linguistics) stative verb
gymnast
carnivore
sportswear
ability to work
pneumatic
invertebrate
metazoa
ice-sports
(of a surgeon) to operate (on sb)
denominal verb
(coll.) the girl of your dreams
differential gear
mobilization order
(idiom) breathtaking
to drive
estrus
force of seismic wave
mobility
\Three Anti\ campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951-52
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
reptile
the earth quaked, the mountains shook (idiom); a tremendous battle
to act blindly without thinking (idiom)
automatic gear change
absolutely still
to translate sth into action
to get angry
reactionaries
backwards and forwards action (e.g. of piston or pump)
Annelidan, the phylum of annelid worms
REM sleep
calendar of events
atrial fibrillation
to move emotionally
trend; tendency
to alarm everyone
prefabricated building
one able to do light manual labor only
general mobilization (for war etc)
drive wheel
regenerative braking
slow motion
animal fat
unrest (social or political)
verbal construction (clause)
wave mechanics (physics)
main artery (blood vessel)
glycogen
gerund
zootoxin
passive immunity
to be unable to move a single step
(astronomy) libration
animal kingdom
kinematics
mollusk
initiative
amphibian
car with a new type of propulsion system (hybrid, hydrogen-powered etc)
flowing
to go on a journey
to reject sb after being deeply touched by them (Internet slang)
turboshaft
Cnidaria (animal phylum including jellyfish and sessile polyps)
escalator
motion
Chordata, phylum containing vertebrates
battery-powered toy
May Fourth Movement
reaction
activism
to cause a sensation
to be unable to lift (sth); to find (sth) too heavy
fluctuation
transmission mechanism
not shaken by thunder (idiom); the arrangements are unalterable
sound coming from sth (typically sth not immediately visible)
Coelenterata (such as jellyfish)
pneumatic switch
long distance runner
to slide
wriggle
shifting sand dunes
program of action
carnivore
nuclear power
electromotive force
to move relative to one another
activist
sliding bevel (to measure angles)
activity center
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
motive; motivation
autoradiography
equations of motion
peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall)
to start
touching
work
Tourette syndrome
simple harmonic motion (in mechanics)
(fine arts) a mobile
axis of rotation (mechanics)
liberation movement
to disturb
real estate
People's Action Party (ruling party in Singapore)
East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
a bright idea suddenly occurs (idiom); to hit upon an inspiration
to sprout
track and field sports
to change
to shake up
pulmonary artery
to wait for the opportune moment before taking action (idiom)
basilar artery (central artery of the brain)
to alarm
to shake
model worker
verb-object construction
moving point
earth-shaking
cartoons and comics
rodent
automobile
Rodong Sinmun (Workers' news), the official newspaper of the North Korean WPK's Central Committee
cash dispenser
fluid dynamics
reeducation through labor
coronary bypass operation
thermodynamic equilibrium
lit. to go to war (idiom)
propulsion system
device driver (computing software)
floating hell
physical labor
deeply affecting (idiom)
children of migrants
to mobilize
If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard. (Cultural Revolution slogan)
hermaphrodite creature
CD or DVD drive
to float and drift
to do the job oneself
the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science
vertebrate
Olympic Organizing Committee
parazoan (animal of the subkingdom Parazoa, mostly sponges)
to transfer
pneumatic hoist pulley
low-powered motorized scooter or bike
to move (sth) around
flipchart
hybrid vehicle
automatic cash withdrawal
jet engine
every movement; each and every move
drive (engine)
burpee (loanword)
cyclostome (marine biology)
empty talk
inanimacy
prefabricated building
adjustable spanner
Patriotic Health Committee
clandestine activities
to lay a finger on sb; to harm sb in the slightest way
turnover (of staff)
pneumatic control
motive force
perpetual motion machine
extravehicular activity (outside space vehicle)
to push-start (a car)
popliteal artery (anatomy)
automatic
pneumatic pump
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
to move
atherosclerosis
myriapod
China Mobile (PRC state telecommunications company)
to budge