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mover

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English

Etymology

From move +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

mover (plural movers)

  1. Someone who or something that moves.
  2. A dancer.
  3. A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
    Synonym: (chiefly Australia) removalist
    I'm getting too old to expect my friends to schlep all my stuff for beer and pizza. I'm hiring movers this time.
  4. Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
  5. A product that sells well.
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 389:
      "The Celtic Soul Brothers" (#86, 1983) was a moderate mover of a follow-up.
  6. (chess, in combination) A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.

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Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin movēre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moˈbe(ɾ)/
  • Syllabification: mo‧ver
  • Rhymes: -e(ɾ)

Verb

mover

  1. to move

Asturian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin movēre.

Verb

mover

  1. to move

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mover, from Latin movēre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moˈbeɾ/ [moˈβ̞eɾ]
  • Rhymes: -eɾ
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ver

Verb

mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movín, past participle movido)
mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movim or movi, past participle movido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. to move

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mover
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    Reintegrated conjugation of mover (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)
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1Less recommended.

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Interlingua

Verb

mover

  1. (transitive) to move

mover se

  1. (reflexive) to move

Conjugation

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Old French

Verb

mover

  1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of movoir

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *movĕre, from Latin movēre (“to move”).

Pronunciation

Verb

mover

  1. to move

Descendants

  • Occitan: mòure, mòver, mòguer

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mover, from Latin movēre. Compare Spanish mover, French mouvoir.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: mo‧ver

Verb

mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movi, past participle movido)

  1. to move (change position)
    Synonyms: deslocar, mexer, movimentar
  2. to induce; to persuade
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:induzir
  3. (law, with contra following the object) to sue (file legal action)
    Synonym: processar
    João moveu uma ação contra Pedro. ― John sued Peter.
  4. (chess and other games) to move (change the place of a piece)
    Synonyms: mexer, movimentar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mover (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
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Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mover, from Latin movēre. Compare English move.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moˈbeɾ/ [moˈβ̞eɾ]
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɾ
  • Syllabification: mo‧ver

Verb

mover (first-person singular present muevo, first-person singular preterite moví, past participle movido)

  1. (transitive) to move (to cause to change place or posture)
  2. (transitive) to shake (e.g. to shake one's head, to shake one's tail feather)
  3. (transitive) to wiggle (e.g. one's ears, fingers, nose, toes)
  4. (transitive) to wag (e.g., an animal's tail wagging)
  5. (transitive) to move to, to cause to
  6. (transitive) to swing (e.g. a sword, a bat, a tennis racket, one's tail)
  7. (reflexive) to move (to change place or posture)
  8. (reflexive) to shift
    La tierra se movió.
    The ground shifted.
  9. (reflexive) to move around, to get around, to drift (i.e. make one's way about a place, to navigate or travel)
  10. (reflexive) to budge, to stir, to twitch, to fidget, to move (in an agitated manner)
    La bebé no se movió para nada toda la noche.
    The baby didn't stir at all the entire night.
    ¡Deja de moverte!
    Stop fidgeting!
  11. (reflexive) to get a move on (idiom)
  12. (reflexive) to be moved (by a performance, etc.)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mover (o-ue alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
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1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of mover (o-ue alternation)

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

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