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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mov·ing, a.
 1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power.
 2. Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal.
    I sang an old moving story.   --Coleridge.
 Moving force Mech., a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body.
 Moving plant Bot., a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans); -- so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion.