<p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to pass from one place or position to another.</li><li>Synonyms: budge, stir.</li><li>to go from one place of residence to another: They moved from Tennessee to Texas.</li><li>Synonyms: remove.</li><li>to advance or progress: The red racing car moved into the lead.</li><li>to have a regular motion, as an implement or a machine; turn; revolve.</li><li>Synonyms: operate, rotate, gyrate, spin.</li><li>to sell or be sold: That new model is moving well.</li><li>to start off or leave: It's time to be moving.</li><li>to transfer a piece in a game, as chess or checkers.</li><li>(of the bowels) to discharge or eject the feces; evacuate.</li><li>to be active in a particular sphere: to move in musical society.</li><li>to take action; proceed.</li><li>to make a formal request, application, or proposal: to move for a new trial.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to change from one place or position to another.</li><li>Synonyms: propel, transfer, shift.</li><li>Antonyms: fix.</li><li>to set or keep in motion: Synonyms: agitate.</li><li>to prompt, actuate, or impel to some action: What moved you to do this?</li><li>Synonyms: lead, instigate, incite, induce, influence.</li><li>to arouse or excite the feelings or passions of; affect with emotion (usually followed by to): to move someone to anger.</li><li>to affect with tender or compassionate emotion; touch: The tale of tragedy moved her.</li><li>to transfer (a piece in a game) from one position to another.</li><li>to dispose of (goods) by sale.</li><li>to cause (the bowels) to discharge or eject the feces.</li><li>to propose formally, as to a court or judge, or for consideration by a deliberative assembly.</li><li>to submit a formal request or proposal to (a court, a sovereign, etc.).</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of moving; movement.</li><li>a change of location or residence.</li><li>an action toward an objective or goal; step: a move toward a higher tax.</li><li>(in chess, checkers, etc.) a player's right or turn to make a play.</li><li>a play or maneuver, as in a game or sport.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to advance to a higher level.</li><li>to leave or go away: I’ve been in this job ten years and it’s time to move on.</li><li>to approach or attack as a military target: The army is moving on the capital itself.</li><li>to progress or change: Those hats were popular once, but fashion has moved on.</li><li>to move past an upsetting experience and go on with one’s life.</li><li>to change or cause to change to another position, especially to make room for another: to make space by moving over.</li><li>to begin to occupy a place in which to live or work.</li><li>Informal: to approach or make advances toward usurping another's success, authority, position, or the like.</li><li>to take aggressive steps to control or possess: The company has not yet moved in on the consumer market.</li><li>to leave a place in order to start or continue a planned march, maneuver, journey, etc.: The troops will move out of the encampment at dawn.</li></ul>