Motive

['məʊtɪv] or ['motɪv]

解釋/意思:

(adj.) causing or able to cause motion; 'a motive force'; 'motive power'; 'motor energy' .

編輯:摩尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) That which moves; a mover.

(n.) That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.

(n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.

(n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.

(a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.

(v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

錄入:罗莎莉

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Inducement, incentive, impulse, incitement, stimulus, prompting, influence, reason, ground, principle, consideration, cause, occasion, prime mover, why and wherefore.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Inducement, purpose, design, prompting, stimulus, reason, impulse, incitement

ANT:Execution, action, effort, deed, attempt, project, preventive, deterrent,dissuasive

整理:特蕾西

解釋/意思:

adj. causing motion: having power to cause motion.—n. that which moves or excites to action: inducement: reason.—v.t. to act on as a motive instigate.—v.t. Mō′tivāte to act on as a motive induce.—n. Motivā′tion.—adj. Mōtiveless.—ns. Mō′tivelessness; Mō′tive-power or -force the force acting upon a body so as to cause it to move; Motiv′ity power of producing motion: the quality of being influenced by motion.

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