<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.</li><li>power of movement, as of a living body.</li><li>the manner of moving the body in walking; gait.</li><li>a proposal formally made to a deliberative assembly: to make a motion to adjourn.</li><li>Law. an application made to a court or judge for an order, ruling, or the like.</li><li>a suggestion or proposal.</li><li>an inward prompting or impulse; inclination: He will go only of his own motion.</li><li>Music. melodic progression, as the change of a voice part from one pitch to another.</li><li>Machinery. a piece of mechanism with a particular action or function.</li><li>the action of such a mechanism.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to direct by a significant motion or gesture, as with the hand: to motion a person to a seat.</li><li>to make a meaningful motion, as with the hand; gesture; signal: to motion to someone to come.</li></ul>