set+in+motion
111set before — Synonyms and related words: advance, affront, brave, breast, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, challenge, choose rather, commend to attention, confront, confront with, dare, defy, encounter, envisage, face, face with, favor, front,… …
112set something on foot — archaic set an action or process in motion. → foot …
113set the wheels in motion — begin a process or put a plan into action. → set …
114set agoing — make move, put into motion …
115in motion — MOVING, on the move, going, travelling, running, functioning, operational. → motion * * * moving flowing blonde hair that was constantly in motion * * * in motion 1 : moving She s a very busy person who s constantly in motion. He likes taking… …
116Brownian motion — This article is about the physical phenomenon; for the stochastic process, see Wiener process. For the sports team, see Brownian Motion (Ultimate). For the mobility model, see Random walk. Brownian motion (named after the botanist Robert Brown)… …
117put (something) in motion — put/set (something) in motion if you set something in motion, you start it happening. The government have set in motion plans to reform the justice system …
118perpetual motion — Mech. the motion of a theoretical mechanism that, without any losses due to friction or other forms of dissipation of energy, would continue to operate indefinitely at the same rate without any external energy being applied to it. [1585 95] * * * …
119forward motion — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, advance, advancement, advancing, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, career, climbing, course, current, descending, descent, downward motion, drift …
120perpetual motion — n. the motion of a hypothetical device which, once set in motion, would operate indefinitely by creating its own energy in excess of that dissipated …
