A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
A change from one place to another.
A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
A state of progression from one place to another.
from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
A change of position with respect to time.
A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
To make a proposal; to offer plans.
To gesture indicating a desired movement.
The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
Memory; the ability to remember.
The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
Request of the return of a faulty product.
To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
To call again, to call another time.
To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).