Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS II SECTION IV. 4. MOTION WITH REFERENCE TO DIRECTION


278. Direction -- N. direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift, tenor; tendency &c 176; incidence; bending, trending &c v.; dip, tack, aim, collimation; steering steerage.

279. Deviation -- N. deviation; swerving &c v.; obliquation † , warp, refraction; flection † , flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure † ; declination.

280. [Going before.] Precession -- N. precession, leading, heading; precedence &c 62; priority &c 116; the lead, le pas; van &c (front) 234; precursor &c 64.

281. [Going after.] Sequence -- N. sequence; coming after &c (order) 63; (time) 117; following pursuit &c 622.

282. [Motion forward; progressive motion.] Progression -- N. progress, progression, progressiveness; advancing &c v.; advance, advancement; ongoing; flood, tide, headway; march &c 266; rise; improvement &c 658.

283. [Motion backwards.] Regression -- N. regress, regression; retrocession † , retrogression, retrograduation † , retroaction; reculade † ; retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration † ; recession &c (motion from) 287; recess; crab-like motion.

284. [Motion given to an object situated in front.] Propulsion -- N. propulsion, projection; propelment † ; vis a tergo [Lat.] , force from behind; push, shove &c (impulse) 276; ejaculate; ejection &c 297; throw, fling, toss, shot, discharge, shy; launch, release.

285. [Motion given to an object situated behind.] Traction -- N. traction; drawing &c v.; draught, pull, haul; rake; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together; towage † , haulage.

286. [Motion towards.] Approach -- N. approach, approximation, appropinquation † ; access; appulse † ; afflux † , affluxion † ; advent &c (approach of time) 121; pursuit &c 622.

287. [Motion from.] Recession -- N. recession, retirement, withdrawal; retreat; retrocession &c 283 [Obs.]; departure, &c 293; recoil &c 277; flight &c (avoidance) 623.

288. [Motion towards, actively; force causing to draw closer.] Attraction -- N. attraction, attractiveness; attractivity † ; drawing to, pulling towards, adduction † .

289. [Motion from, actively; force driving apart.] Repulsion -- N. repulsion; driving from &c v.; repulse, abduction.

290. [Motion nearer to.] Convergence -- N. convergence, confluence, concourse, conflux † , congress, concurrence, concentration; convergency; appulse † , meeting; corradiation † .

291. [Motion further off.] Divergence -- N. divergence, divergency † ; divarication, ramification, forking; radiation; separation &c (disjunction) 44; dispersion &c 73; deviation &c 279; aberration.

292. [Terminal motion at.] Arrival -- N. arrival, advent; landing; debarkation, disembarkation; reception, welcome, vin d'honneur [Fr.] .

293. [Initial motion from.] Departure -- N. departure, decession † , decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit &c (egress) 295; exodus, hejira, flight.

294. [Motion into.] Ingress -- N. ingress; entrance, entry; introgression; influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption; ingression; penetration, interpenetration; illapse † , import, infiltration; immigration; admission &c (reception) 296; insinuation &c (interjacence) 228 [Obs.]; insertion &c 300.

295. [Motion out of.] Egress -- N. egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption † ; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation [Med.] , perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush &c (water in motion) 348; outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion † , drain; dribbling &c v.; defluxion † ; drainage; outcome, output; discharge &c (excretion) 299.

296. [Motion into, actively.] Reception -- N. reception; admission, admittance, entree, importation; introduction, intromission; immission † , ingestion, imbibation † , introception † , absorption, ingurgitation † , inhalation; suction, sucking; eating, drinking &c (food) 298; insertion &c 300; interjection &c 228; introit.

297. [Motion out of, actively] Ejection -- N. ejection, emission, effusion, rejection, expulsion, exportation, eviction, extrusion, trajection † ; discharge.

298. [Eating.] Food -- N. eating &c v.; deglutition, gulp, epulation † , mastication, manducation † , rumination; gluttony &c 957.

299. Excretion -- N. excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation [Med.] , ecchymosis [Med.] ; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap [Vulg.] ; bloody flux; cacation † ; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation † , exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology [Med.] .

300. [Forcible ingress.] Insertion -- N. insertion, implantation, introduction; insinuation &c (intervention) 228; planting, &c v.; injection, inoculation, importation, infusion; forcible ingress &c 294; immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath &c (water) 337; interment &c 363.

301. [Forcible egress.] Extraction -- N. extraction; extracting &c v.; removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution.

302. [Motion through.] Passage -- N. passage, transmission; permeation; penetration, interpenetration; transudation, infiltration; endosmose exosmose † ; endosmosis [Chem] ; intercurrence † ; ingress &c 294; egress &c 295; path &c 627; conduit &c 350; opening &c 260; journey &c 266; voyage &c 267.

303. [Motion beyond] Transcursion -- N. transcursion † , transiliency † , transgression; trespass; encroachment, infringement; extravagation † , transcendence; redundancy &c 641.

304. [motion short of] Shortcoming -- N. shortcoming, failure; falling short &c v.; default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no go.

305. [Motion upwards] Ascent -- N. ascent, ascension; rising &c 309; acclivity, hill &c 217; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.

306. [Motion downwards] Descent -- N. descent, descension † , declension, declination; fall; falling &c v.; slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute † ; titubation † , stumble; fate of Icarus.

307. Elevation -- N. elevation; raising &c v.; erection, lift; sublevation † , upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence &c (convexity) 250.

308. Depression -- N. lowering &c v.; depression; dip &c (concavity) 252; abasement; detrusion † ; reduction.

309. Leap -- N. leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation † .

310. Plunge -- N. plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking &c v.; diver.

311. [Curvilinear motion.] Circuition -- N. circuition † , circulation; turn, curvet; excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation; northwest passage; circuit &c 629.

312. [Motion in a continued circle.] Rotation -- N. rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an axis, circulation, roll; circumrotation † , circumvolution, circumgyration † ; volutation † , circination † , turbination † , pirouette, convolution.

313. [Motion in the reverse circle.] Evolution -- N. evolution, unfolding, development; evolvement; unfoldment; eversion &c (inversion) 218.

314. [Reciprocating motion, motion to and fro.] Oscillation -- N. oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation; undulation; pulsation; pulse.

315. [Irregular motion] Agitation -- N. agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion † , trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance; jactitation † , quassation † ; shuffling &c v.; twitter, flicker, flutter.