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LOCOMOTE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

Example:

news travelled fast

Synonyms:

go; locomote; move; travel

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Verb group:

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "locomote"):

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

carry (cover a certain distance or advance beyond)

ease (move gently or carefully)

whish (move with a whishing sound)

float (move lightly, as if suspended)

swap (move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science)

seek (go to or towards)

whine (move with a whining sound)

fly (be dispersed or disseminated)

ride (move like a floating object)

come (cover a certain distance)

ghost (move like a ghost)

betake oneself (displace oneself; go from one location to another)

overfly; pass over (fly over)

travel (undergo transportation as in a vehicle)

wend (direct one's course or way)

do (travel or traverse (a distance))

raft (travel by raft in water)

get about; get around (move around; move from place to place)

repair; resort (move, travel, or proceed toward some place)

cruise (travel at a moderate speed)

journey; travel (travel upon or across)

come; come up (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody)

round (wind around; move along a circular course)

trundle (move heavily)

push (move strenuously and with effort)

travel purposefully (travel volitionally and in a certain direction with a certain goal)

swing (change direction with a swinging motion; turn)

cast; drift; ramble; range; roam; roll; rove; stray; swan; tramp; vagabond; wander (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment)

take the air; walk (take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure)

meander; thread; wander; weave; wind (to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course)

forge; spirt; spurt (move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy)

crawl; creep (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground)

scramble (to move hurriedly)

slide; slither (to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly)

roll; wheel (move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle)

glide (move smoothly and effortlessly)

bounce; jounce (move up and down repeatedly)

breeze (to proceed quickly and easily)

be adrift; blow; drift; float (be in motion due to some air or water current)

play (move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly)

float; swim (be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom)

swim (move as if gliding through water)

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

move around; turn (pass to the other side of)

circle (travel around something)

slice into; slice through (move through a body or an object with a slicing motion)

drift; err; stray (wander from a direct course or at random)

run (travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means)

step (shift or move by taking a step)

drive; motor (travel or be transported in a vehicle)

automobile (travel in an automobile)

ski (move along on skis)

fly; wing (travel through the air; be airborne)

steam; steamer (travel by means of steam power)

tram (travel by tram)

taxi (travel slowly)

ferry (travel by ferry)

caravan (travel in a caravan)

ride; sit (sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions)

prance (spring forward on the hind legs)

swim (travel through water)

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)

ascend; go up (travel up)

come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)

fall (descend in free fall under the influence of gravity)

crank; zigzag (travel along a zigzag path)

follow; travel along (travel along a certain course)

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

draw back; move back; pull away; pull back; recede; retire; retreat; withdraw (pull back or move away or backward)

retrograde (move in a direction contrary to the usual one)

continue; go forward; proceed (move ahead; travel onward in time or space)

back (travel backward)

pan (make a sweeping movement)

follow (to travel behind, go after, come after)

lead; precede (move ahead (of others) in time or space)

follow; pursue (follow in or as if in pursuit)

return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)

derail; jump (run off or leave the rails)

flock (move as a crowd or in a group)

accompany (go or travel along with)

billow (move with great difficulty)

circulate (move around freely from person to person or from place to place)

circle (move in a circular path above (someone or something))

angle (move or proceed at an angle)

pass (go across or through)

go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by (move past)

hurry; speed; travel rapidly; zip (move very fast)

speed (travel at an excessive or illegal velocity)

zoom (move with a low humming noise)

drive (move by being propelled by a force)

belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed; step on it (move hurridly)

shack; trail (move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly)

shuttle (travel back and forth between two points)

hiss; whoosh (move with a whooshing sound)

whisk (move quickly and nimbly)

career (move headlong at high speed)

circuit (make a circuit)

lance (move quickly, as if by cutting one's way)

go around; outflank (go around the flank of (an opposing army))

propagate (travel through the air)

draw (move or go steadily or gradually)

change; transfer (change from one vehicle or transportation line to another)

swash (make violent, noisy movements)

pace (go at a pace)

step; tread (put down or press the foot, place the foot)

step (move with one's feet in a specific manner)

hurtle (move with or as if with a rushing sound)

retreat (move away, as for privacy)

whistle (move with, or as with, a whistling sound)

island hop (travel from one island to the next)

plough; plow (move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil)

lurch (move slowly and unsteadily)

sift (move as if through a sieve)

fall (move in a specified direction)

drag (move slowly and as if with great effort)

run (move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way)

bang (move noisily)

precess (move in a gyrating fashion)

move around; travel (travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge)

ride (sit on and control a vehicle)

snowshoe (travel on snowshoes)

beetle (fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

locomotion (self-propelled movement)

locomotion (the power or ability to move)

locomotive (of or relating to locomotion)

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