Usually means: Change position or location; act.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. move: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. move: Merriam-Webster
  3. move, move: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. move: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. move: Collins English Dictionary
  6. move: Vocabulary.com
  7. Move, move: Wordnik
  8. move: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. move: Wiktionary
  10. move: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. move: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. move: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. MOVE: Dictionary.com
  14. move (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. move: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MOVE, M.o.v.e, Move (4L song), Move (CSS song), Move (EP), Move (Earl Klugh album), Move (Hiromi album), Move (If You Wanna), Move (Japanese band), Move (Little Mix song), Move (Luke Bryan song), Move (MercyMe song), Move (Moby song), Move (Q-Tip song), Move (TFK Song), Move (Taemin album), Move (The Mamas song), Move (Third Day album), Move (Thousand Foot Krutch song), Move (command), Move (company), Move (disambiguation), Move (game theory), Move (programming language), Move (software), Move, The Move (Sam Fife), The Move: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Move: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. move: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. move: Rhymezone
  20. move: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. move: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. move: FreeDictionary.org
  23. move: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. move: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. move: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Move (The Move album), The Move (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. move: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. move: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. move: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Move (disambiguation), move: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. move: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Move (disambiguation), move: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. move: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MOVE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. move: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. move, move: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Move, m.o.v.e, move: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Move: Backgammon

(Note: See moved as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
verb:  (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act
verb:  (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.
verb:  (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
verb:  (transitive, chess, board games) To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
verb:  (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
verb:  (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
verb:  (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
verb:  (transitive, business) To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
verb:  (transitive, programming) To transfer the value of one object in memory to another efficiently (i.e., without copying it in entirety).
noun:  The act of moving; a movement.
noun:  An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
noun:  A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
noun:  The event of changing one's residence.
noun:  A change in strategy.
noun:  A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
noun:  (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
noun:  (board games, usually in the plural) A round, in which each player has a turn.

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