n.
1.a change of position that does not entail a change of location
2.a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
3.the act of changing location from one place to another
4.a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
5.a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
6.a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
7.an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
8.a euphemism for defecation
9.a general tendency to change (as of opinion) 10.the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) 11.the act of changing the location of something
Idiom of the Day
pay one's debt to society
to serve a sentence for a crime (usually in prison)
The young man spent several years in prison in order to pay his debt to society.