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MOVE AROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does move around mean? 

MOVE AROUND (verb)
  The verb MOVE AROUND has 2 senses:

1. pass to the other side ofplay

2. travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judgeplay

  Familiarity information: MOVE AROUND used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOVE AROUND (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass to the other side of

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

move around; turn

Context example:

move around the obstacle

Hypernyms (to "move around" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


Sense 2

Meaning:

Travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

move around; travel

Hypernyms (to "move around" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "move around"):

itinerate (travel from place to place, as for work)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s


 Context examples 


The findings highlight a new role for filopodia, which were previously thought to help cells move around and sense their environment.

(How And Why Blood Clots Shrink, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Electrons (negative particles) move around the nucleus.

(Atom, NCI Dictionary)

They may help you move around, see, communicate, eat, or get dressed.

(Assistive Devices, NIH)

The easier that electrons can move around in a solar cell material, the more efficient that material will be at converting photons, particles of light, into electricity.

(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)

You see, here in our country we live contentedly, and can talk and move around as we please.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The cabin was small, to begin with, and to move around, as I was compelled to, was not made easier by the schooner’s violent pitching and wallowing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Another issue is that ions can move around in the solar cell when illuminated, which can cause a change in the bandgap – the colour of light the material absorbs.

(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)

Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legs and head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)



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