mot-, moto-, -motile, -motility, -motorial, -motoric, -motive, -motored; mov-

Movement of a flat plant part, oriented relative to the plant body and produced by a variety of stimuli that cause disproportioinate growth or increased turgor pressure in the tissues of one surface.

The opening and closing movements of many flowers, and the responses of leaves to changes of temperature and light, are externally directed, or paratonic, nastic movements. Specialized plants, such as the insectivorous sundew, move in response to the touch and chemical stimuli of captured insects.

Nastic movements are responses to stimuli that uniformly affect the plant or else elicit a uniform response regardless of the direction they come from, whereas tropisms are movements in response to stimuli coming from one direction; geotropism, for example, is the response to gravity. The distinction between nasticisms and tropisms is sometimes unclear.

He is not moved by either wave nor wind.

Let not your own, but the public wishes move you.

1. To move every stone.
2. To leave no stone unturned.

"Keep trying" or do the very best in an enterprise or project.

Soft palate.

Moved by foot power; a velocipede.

1. A reference to the arrector muscles, the contraction of which produces cutis ansertina (goose flesh) and the erection of the hairs.
2. Causing movements of hairs, as the arrectores pilorum.

1. Relating to the regulation of the rate of respiration.
2. Concerning the regulation of the pulmonary respiration rate.

1. To raise someone to a more senior job or a higher position or rank; that is, to advance in rank, dignity, position, etc., which is the opposite of demote.
2. To put a person ahead to the next higher stage or grade of a course or series of classes.
3. To encourage the growth and development of something.
4. To publicize a product so that people will buy or rent it; that is, to encourage the sales, acceptance, etc., of (a product); especially, through advertising or other publicity. .
5. To further something by helping to arrange or to introduce it.
6. To move a soccer team or player from a lower to a higher division of a league.
7. In chess, to exchange a pawn for a more powerful piece, usually a queen, when it reaches an opponent's end of the board.

1. Someone who promotes, especially an active supporter or advocate.
2. A financial and publicity organizer; such as, a boxing match or an artistic performance.
3. Anyone who raises money for a financial or commercial undertaking.
4. A person who tries to make a product or service more widely known or more successful.