different between incline vs move

English

Alternative forms

• encline (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French encliner (modern incliner), from Latin incl?n? (“incline, tilt”), from in- + cl?n? (compare -cline), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (English lean).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?n
• (verb) enPR: ?nkl?n', IPA^(key): /?n?kla?n/
• (noun) enPR: ?n'kl?n, IPA^(key): /??n.kla?n/

Verb

incline (third-person singular simple present inclines, present participle inclining, simple past and past participle inclined)

1. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.

2. (intransitive) To slope.

3. (chiefly intransitive, chiefly passive) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."

   • 1966, J. M. G. van der Poel, "Agriculture in Pre- and Protohistoric Times", in the Acta Historiae Neerlandica published by the Netherlands Committee of Historical Sciences, p.170:

     The terp farmer made use of the plough, as is shown by the discovery of three ploughshares and four coulters. […] Those who inclined to the stock-breeding theory based their arguments on the absence of ploughs, […].

Related terms

• inclination

Translations

Noun

incline (plural inclines)

1. A slope.

   To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline.

Related terms

• climate
• cline
• decline
• recline

Translations

Further reading

• incline in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• incline in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• incline at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• -nicline

French

Verb

incline

1. first-person singular present indicative of incliner
2. third-person singular present indicative of incliner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of incliner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of incliner
5. second-person singular imperative of incliner

Galician

Verb

incline

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar

Italian

Adjective

incline (plural inclini)

1. inclined, prone

   Synonyms: facile, propenso

Portuguese

Verb

incline

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of inclinar
3. third-person singular imperative of inclinar

Spanish

Verb

incline

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of inclinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of inclinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of inclinar.

English

Alternative forms

• meve (12th to 16th centuries)
• mieve, mooue, moove (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin mov?re, present active infinitive of move? (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit ????? (m??vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). More at muff. Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?ov, IPA^(key): /mu?v/
• Rhymes: -u?v

Verb

move (third-person singular simple present moves, present participle moving, simple past and past participle moved)

1. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

   Synonym: stir

   • 1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95

     Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.

2. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act

   Synonyms: get moving, stir

4. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.

5. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.

6. (transitive, ergative) 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

   Synonyms: stir, impel

7. (transitive, chess, and other games) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game

8. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

   • Seducer of the Peopie, not moved with the Piety of his Life

   • No female arts his mind could move.

9. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).

   Synonyms: affect, trouble

10. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
    • 1905, Livy, translated by Canon Roberts, From the Founding of the City Book 38

      Two days were thus wasted in the quarrel between the consuls. It was clear that while Faminius was present no decision could be arrived at. Owing to Flaminius' absence through illness, Aemilius seized the opportunity to move a resolution which the senate adopted. Its purport was that the Ambracians should have all their property restored to them; they should be free to live under their own laws; they should impose such harbour dues and other imposts by land and sea as they desired, provided that the Romans and their Italian allies were exempt.

    • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth

      And therefore they are to be blamed alike, both who moue and who decline warre […]

11. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
12. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:

      "Sir," seyde Sir Boys, "ye nede nat to meve me of such maters, for well ye wote I woll do what I may to please you."

13. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
14. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.

15. (intransitive, obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
16. (transitive, slang) To sell, to market (especially, but not exclusively, illegal products)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• actuate
• agitate
• impel
• incite
• incline
• induce
• influence
• instigate
• offer
• persuade
• prompt
• propose
• rouse
• stir
• transfer

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

move (plural moves)

1. The act of moving; a movement.
2. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

3. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.

4. The event of changing one's residence.

5. A change in strategy.

6. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[3]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:

     Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland.

7. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.

   Synonym: play

Synonyms

• (act of moving): Thesaurus:movement
• (moving to another place): removal, relocation

Derived terms

Translations

References

• move in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Finnish

Etymology

A contraction of motivaatiovemppa.

Noun

move

1. (military slang) A conscript who acquires or has acquired exemptions from physical education for falsified reasons of health, i.e. by feigning sick.

Declension

Derived terms

• verbs: movettaa

Galician

Verb

move

1. third-person singular present indicative of mover
2. second-person singular imperative of mover

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mauvais (“bad”)

Adjective

move

1. bad

Interlingua

Verb

move

1. present of mover
2. imperative of mover

Latin

Verb

mov?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of move?

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m?.vi/
• Rhymes: -?vi

Verb

move

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of mover
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of mover