Definizione monolingua

motive

motive (third-person singular simple present motives, present participle motiving, simple past and past participle motived)

1. (transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

motive (plural motives)

1. An incentive to act; a reason for doing something; anything that prompted a choice of action.

   What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?

   No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.

2. A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.

   If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.

motive (not comparable)

1. Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 195:

     In the motive parts of animals may be discovered mutuall proportions; not only in those of Quadrupeds, but in the thigh-bone, legge, foot-bone, and claws of Birds.

2. Relating to motion and/or to its cause

Definizione dizionario motive

	motivo
	that which incites to action

causa

causale

motore

movente

ragione

Altri significati:

An incentive to act; a reason for doing something; anything that prompted a choice of action.

causing motion

A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.

Relating to motion and/or to its cause

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

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

guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art

theme or subject

to prompt or incite