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motionless

adj
/ˈməʊʃənlɛs/UK/ˈmoʊʃənlɛs/US

Etymology

From motion + -less.

  1. derived from *m(y)ewh₁-✻
  2. derived from mōtiō — “movement, motion”
  3. derived from motion
  4. derived from motion
  5. inherited from mocioun
  6. suffixed as motionless — “motion + less”

Definitions

  1. At rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.

    • Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows for the most part feeding unconcernedly, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
    • We remain motionless in the platform while the ex-Edinburgh draws forward, the points are set, and it is propelled back for attachment. The Edinburgh locomotive uncoupled, a brake test is performed and we're away.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at motionless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at motionless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at motionless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA