HOW TO PRONOUNCE
motions
/ˈmoʊʃənz/
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What does motions mean?
noun
- plural of motion
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of motion
proper noun
- plural of Motion
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmoʊʃənz/
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The travellers several times saw bands of ferocious Indians, who, when they perceived the elephant striding across-country, made angry and threatening motions.
The ratios of their motions, numbers, and other properties, are ordered by the God, who harmonized them as far as necessity permitted.
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Does it not bear the same relation to it as the motions upon a ship to the motion of the ship itself?
How often do the involuntary motions of the countenance discover our inward thoughts, and betray our most private secrets to the bystanders.
It made all the motions of pecking, strutted about, flapped its wings, attempted to crow, but, of course, without making any sound.