mover

From move +‎ -er.

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• Rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)

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.

• vomer

From Latin movere.

mover

1. to move

From Latin movēre, present active infinitive of moveō.

mover

1. to move

• movimientu

From Old Portuguese mover, from Latin movēre, present active infinitive of moveō.

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

1. to move
2. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of mover
3. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of mover

mover

1. (transitive) to move

mover se

1. (reflexive) to move

mover

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of movoir

From Latin movēre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔveɾ/

mover

1. to move

• Occitan: mòver, mòure, mòguer

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “movēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 463

From Old Portuguese mover, from Latin movēre, from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (“to move”).

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)

   João moveu uma ação contra Pedro. ― John sued Peter.

   Synonym: processar

4. (chess and other games) to move (change the place of a piece)

   Synonyms: mexer, movimentar

5. inflection of mover:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

From Old Spanish mover, from Latin movēre, from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (“to move”). Cognate with English move.

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

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.)

• “mover”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014