Collocations for "motion"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "motion" in context.
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motion
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [ball, car, train, person, bird] in motion
- a [principle, theory] of motion
- the effects of [wind, energy, force] on motion
- set the [meeting, process, procedures] in motion
- keep the [meeting] in motion
- the [meeting] is already in motion
- [watched, played] the move on [fast, slow] motion
- [film, record, shoot] on slow motion
- like life in slow motion
- lost motion in her [upper body, legs, arms]
- made motions to [show, indicate]
- gave a [sideways, vertical, swiping] motion (to show)
- law: [rejected, approved] the motion
- law: a motion to dismiss the [evidence, recording, statement]
- law: the motion was [seconded, agreed to, passed]
- government: the motion was defeated in [Congress, Parliament]
- idiom: is just going through the motions
- the [inventor, pioneer] of motion pictures
- suffers from motion sickness
'motion' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
blur
- blurred
- camera
- clockwise
- compel
- constantly
- continuous
- crank
- debate
- design
- dynamic
- fluent
- forward
- law
- physics
- picture
- poetry
- principle
- pronounce
- replay
- second
- set
- sickness
- slow
- stir
- surrender
- sustain
- sweeping
- swift
- table
- upward
- winding
- yes