Usually means: Movements or proposals for action.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. motions: Merriam-Webster
  2. motions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. motions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Motion's, Motions, motion's, motions: Wordnik
  5. motions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. motions: Wiktionary
  7. motions: Dictionary.com
  8. motions: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Motions, The Motions (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. motions: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. motions: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. motions: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motions: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. motions: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. motions: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motions: Idioms

(Note: See motion as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Motion)

noun:  (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
noun:  (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
noun:  (physics) A change from one place to another.
noun:  (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
noun:  (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
noun:  (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
noun:  Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
noun:  (law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
noun:  (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
noun:  (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
noun:  (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
noun:  (mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
verb:  To gesture indicating a desired movement.
verb:  (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
verb:  To make a proposal; to offer plans.
noun:  A surname.
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