Mover

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mover \Mov"er\, n.
     1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
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     2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of
        place; a motor.


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     3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes
        movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition.
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              These most poisonous compounds,
              Which are the movers of a languishing death. --Shak.
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     4. A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends
        anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a
        resolution in a legislative body.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mover
       n 1: workman employed by a moving company; "the movers were very
            careful with the grand piano"
       2: (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
          [syn: {proposer}]
       3: someone who moves
       4: a company that moves the possessions of a family or business
          from one site to another [syn: {public mover}, {moving
          company}, {removal firm}, {removal company}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "mover":
     Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard,
     Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Ulysses, abettor, actor, actuator, agent,
     agitator, ancestors, animator, apprentice, architect, artificer,
     artist, author, begetter, beginner, bird of passage, builder,
     cajoler, catalyst, causer, coax, coaxer, conceiver, constructor,
     craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, doer, drifter,
     effector, encourager, energizer, engenderer, engineer, executant,
     executor, executrix, fabricator, father, firer, floater, fomenter,
     founder, gad, gadabout, gadfly, galvanizer, generator, go-about,
     grower, impeller, inaugurator, inciter, inducer, industrialist,
     initiator, inspirer, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor,
     itinerant, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master,
     master craftsman, medium, mother, moving spirit, operant,
     operative, operator, organizer, originator, parent, past master,
     peregrinator, peregrine, performer, peripatetic, perpetrator,
     persuader, planner, pleader, practitioner, precursor, prime mover,
     primum mobile, producer, prompter, raiser, rambler, realizer,
     roamer, rolling stone, rover, runabout, shaper, sire, smith, spark,
     spark plug, sparker, stimulator, straggler, stroller,
     strolling player, subject, tempter, troubadour, visitant, wanderer,
     wandering minstrel, wandering scholar, wheedler, worker, wright