ADJECTIVE (3)

1. in motion;
- Example: "a constantly moving crowd"
- Example: "the moving parts of the machine"

2. arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion;
- Example: "she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter"- N. Hawthorne

3. used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion;
- Example: "Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or `the movies'"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Move \Move\ (m[=oo]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moved (m[=oo]vd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Moving.] [OE. moven, OF. moveir, F.
   mouvoir, L. movere; cf. Gr. 'amei`bein to change, exchange,
   go in or out, quit, Skr. m[imac]v, p. p. m[=u]ta, to move,
   push. Cf. Emotion, Mew to molt, Mob, Mutable,
   Mutiny.]
   1. To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set
      in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place
      to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a
      vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
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   2. (Chess, Checkers, etc.) To transfer (a piece or man) from
      one space or position to another on a playing board,
      according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
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   3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to
      rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to
      influence.
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            Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.
                                                  --Knolles.
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            No female arts his mind could move.   --Dryden.
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   4. To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to
      excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically;
      to excite, as an emotion. --Shak.
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            When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with
            compassion on them.                   --Matt. ix.
                                                  36.
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            [The use of images] in orations and poetry is to
            move pity or terror.                  --Felton.
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   5. To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose
      formally for consideration and determination, in a
      deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be
      adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
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            Let me but move one question to your daughter.
                                                  --Shak.
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            They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline
            war upon particular respects.         --Hayward.
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   6. To apply to, as for aid. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   Syn: To stir; agitate; trouble; affect; persuade; influence;
        actuate; impel; rouse; prompt; instigate; incite;
        induce; incline; propose; offer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Moving \Mov"ing\, a.
   1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a
      moving car, or power.
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   2. Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move
      the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching;
      pathetic; as, a moving appeal.
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            I sang an old moving story.           --Coleridge.
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   Moving force (Mech.), a force that accelerates, retards, or
      deflects the motion of a body.

   Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium
      gyrans); -- so called because its leaflets have a
      distinct automatic motion.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Moving \Mov"ing\, n.
   The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of
   changing one's dwelling place or place of business.
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   Moving day, a day when one moves; esp., a day when a large
      number of tenants change their dwelling place.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

moving
    adj 1: in motion; "a constantly moving crowd"; "the moving parts
           of the machine" [ant: nonmoving, unmoving]
    2: arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion; "she laid her
       case of destitution before him in a very moving letter"- N.
       Hawthorne [ant: unmoving]
    3: used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the
       illusion of motion; "Her ambition was to be in moving
       pictures or `the movies'" [ant: still]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

240 Moby Thesaurus words for "moving":
   active, activity, actuating, actuation, advancing, affecting,
   affective, afflictive, agitating, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory,
   amotion, animating, animation, arousing, awakening, bitter, bleak,
   breathless, breathtaking, causal, causative, charged, cheerless,
   circuit-riding, cliff-hanging, comfortless, commutation,
   compelling, course, crossing, delocalization, deplorable,
   depressing, depressive, dignified, direction, directive,
   discomforting, dismal, dismaying, displacement, disquieting,
   distracting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, doleful,
   dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, driving, dynamics,
   effective, electric, elevated, eloquent, emotional, emotive,
   exciting, exhilarating, expeditionary, expressive, facund, forward,
   forward-looking, galvanic, globe-girdling, globe-trotting,
   go-ahead, going, grand, grave, grievous, gripping, heady,
   heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling,
   heartrending, impellent, impelling, impressive, impulsive,
   in motion, inducive, inflammatory, influence, inner-direction,
   inspirational, inspiring, intoxicating, itinerant, itinerary,
   jarring, jolting, journeying, joyless, kinematics, kinesipathy,
   kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lamentable, locomotion,
   locomotive, lofty, maddening, majestic, meaningful, mind-blowing,
   mobile, mobilization, motile, motion, motivating, motivation,
   motivational, motive, motor, mournful, move, movement, mundivagant,
   noble, on the move, on tour, oncoming, ongoing, onward, operating,
   other-direction, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering,
   overwhelming, painful, passage, passing, pathetic, pedestrian,
   perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine,
   peripatetic, persuasive, perturbing, pilgrimlike, piquant, piteous,
   pitiable, pitiful, poignant, pregnant, pressing, proceeding,
   progress, progressing, progressive, prompting, propellant,
   propelling, provocative, provoking, pulsive, quickening, rallying,
   ravishing, regrettable, relocation, remotion, removal, removement,
   restlessness, rousing, rueful, running, sad, saddening,
   sententious, serious, sharp, shift, significant, solemn, sore,
   sorrowful, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stately, stimulating,
   stimulation, stimulative, stir, stirring, striking, strolling,
   sublime, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling,
   thrilly, thrusting, touching, touring, tourism, touristic,
   touristry, touristy, traject, trajet, transit, transitional,
   travel, traveling, trekking, troubling, uncomfortable, unfixed,
   unrest, unsettling, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, upsetting,
   urgent, velocity, walking, wayfaring, weighty, woebegone, woeful,
   working, wretched