Clues for the word "MOTION"
We've had 46 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 59 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on September 04, 2026.
Definition of motion
- n. - The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
- n. - Power of, or capacity for, motion.
- n. - Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
- n. - Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
- n. - Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- n. - A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
- n. - An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
- n. - Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
- n. - A puppet show or puppet.
- v. i. - To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
- v. i. - To make proposal; to offer plans.
- v. t. - To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
- v. t. - To propose; to move.
Referring Clues
- Parliamentary proposal
- One may be on the floor
- ___ picture
- It may be seconded
- Kinetics concern
- Word with "detector" or "picture"
- Thing to carry in a boardroom
- Newtonian concern
- Movement
- Netonian concern
- Word with "detector" or "picture"
- Parliamentarian's proposal
- Gesture
- Kind of detector
- Formal proposal put to a vote
- Subject of three laws of Newton
- Court request
- Legal maneuver
- It may be carried in a boardroom
- What triggers some alarms
- Flow - proposal
- Poet in whom poetry?
- Proposal to bring it back in satellite
- Poet laureate - proposal
- Spooner's liquid treatment a shambles still?
- A poet's dream increased by half a tick
- 7 in whom there's 9
- A moving proposal
- Poet could require a vote
- See 7
- Poet no expert in advertising
- Senate-floor proposal
- Sort of picture that's a topic for debate?
- Proposal before meeting producing action
- See 21
- Formal proposal
- "I call the question," e.g.
- Movement in a satellite - it turns
- Something to second
- Well-known poetical movement
- Security lighting trigger
- Proposal put forward as a gesture
- Statement to a chair of a meeting
- A test one gets on with, for progress
- Courtroom request
- Proposal put foward as a gesture
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - September 04, 2026
- Daily Quick - February 14, 2026
- Daily Quick - November 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 22, 2025
- USA Today - October 19, 2024
- New York Times - September 07, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 14, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 01, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 10, 2023
- Daily Quick - January 24, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - January 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - December 02, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - July 04, 2022
- New York Times - May 25, 2022
- Daily Quick - November 22, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 24, 2017
- Netword - August 31, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 17, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - June 07, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - February 03, 2017
- LA Times - December 14, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - December 02, 2016
- New York Times - June 19, 2016
- USA Today - February 02, 2016
- And in 29 more crossword puzzles...