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English

Alternative forms

• (15^th century): wrenche; (15^th century): wrinche; (16^th century): wringe

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: r?nch IPA^(key): /??nt????/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English wrench, from Old English wren?, from Proto-Germanic *wrankiz (“a turning, twisting”). Compare German Rank (“plot, intrigue”).

Noun

wrench (plural wrenches)

1. A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug. [from 16th c.]
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us.

2. An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain. [from 16th c.]
3. (obsolete) A trick or artifice. [from 8th c.]
   • c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246

     Mon mai longe liues wene; / Ac ofte him liedh the wrench.

4. (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery. [from 13th c.]
5. (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle. [from 16th c.]
6. (archaic) A winch or windlass. [from 16th c.]
7. (obsolete) A screw. [from 16th c.]
8. A distorting change from the original meaning. [from 17th c.]
9. (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner. [from 18th c.]
10. (Britain) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
11. A violent emotional change caused by separation. [from 19th c.]
12. (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body. [from 19th c.]
13. (obsolete) means; contrivance

    • But weighing one thing with another he gave Britain for lost; but resolved to make his profit of this business of Britain, as a quarrel for war; and that of Naples, as a wrench and mean for peace

14. In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.

Synonyms

• (tool): spanner (UK, Australia)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English wrenchen, from Old English wren?an, from Proto-Germanic *wrankijan?. Compare German renken.

Verb

wrench (third-person singular simple present wrenches, present participle wrenching, simple past and past participle wrenched)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe. [from 11th c.]
2. (transitive) To pull or twist violently. [from 13th c.]

3. (transitive, obsolete) To turn aside or deflect. [from 13th c.]
4. (transitive, obsolete) To slander. [from 14th c.]
5. (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch. [from 16th c.]
6. (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting. [from 16th c.]

7. (transitive) To distort from the original meaning. [from 16th c.]
8. (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion. [from 16th c.]
9. (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away. [from 18th c.]
10. (transitive) To rack with pain. [from 18th c.]
11. (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist. [from 18th c.]
12. (transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Further reading

• wrench on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wrench on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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