<span class="searchmatch">own</span>-<span class="searchmatch">motion</span> Anglicisation of the Latinate legal phrase suo motu (“of one's <span class="searchmatch">own</span> <span class="searchmatch">motion</span>”). <span class="searchmatch">own</span> <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> (not comparable) (attributive, Australia) Relating to...
has an article on: proper <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> Wikipedia proper (in the sense of "its <span class="searchmatch">own</span>") + <span class="searchmatch">motion</span>; from Latin proprius. proper <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> (plural proper motions) (astronomy)...
no-confidence <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> nonmotion oblique <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> oculomotion <span class="searchmatch">own</span> <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> parallax <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> parallel <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> perpetual <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> perpetual <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> machine perpetual <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> machine...
Latin motus peculiaris (astronomy) A star's <span class="searchmatch">own</span> <span class="searchmatch">motion</span>, independent of the <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> due to the displacement of the observer....
of itself (dated, obsolete) By one's <span class="searchmatch">own</span> <span class="searchmatch">motion</span>; without the aid of another....
someone's <span class="searchmatch">own</span> dime out of one's <span class="searchmatch">own</span> pocket <span class="searchmatch">own</span>-account <span class="searchmatch">own</span> brand <span class="searchmatch">own</span> goal <span class="searchmatch">own</span> label <span class="searchmatch">own</span> <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> paddle one's <span class="searchmatch">own</span> canoe pay back in someone's <span class="searchmatch">own</span> coin pay...
<span class="searchmatch">own</span> with Stroudley in argument. 1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (<span class="searchmatch">motion</span> picture): Charlie: Are you a good pilot? Maverick: I can hold my <span class="searchmatch">own</span>....
which he finds it so hard to put in <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> on some occasions, can on others run fast enough down hill of its <span class="searchmatch">own</span> accord, dragging his reluctant self backwards...
Don DeLillo, The Names: This place was returning to me a sense of my <span class="searchmatch">own</span> <span class="searchmatch">motion</span> through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way. Noah...
From mis- + <span class="searchmatch">motion</span>. mismotion (uncountable) Bad or wrong <span class="searchmatch">motion</span>. 2000, Nicholas Delbanco, The Writing Life: The Hopwood Lectures, Fifth Series, page...