Motion vs. Motive
Motionnoun
(uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
Motionnoun
(countable) A change of position with respect to time.
Motionnoun
(physics) A change from one place to another.
Motionnoun
(countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
Motionnoun
(obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
Motionnoun
(philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
Motionnoun
Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
Motionnoun
(law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
Motionnoun
(euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
Motionnoun
(music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
Motionnoun
(obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
Motionverb
To gesture indicating a desired movement.
Motionverb
(proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
Motionverb
To make a proposal; to offer plans.
Motionnoun
The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; - opposed to rest.
Motionnoun
Power of, or capacity for, motion.
Motionnoun
Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
Motionnoun
Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
Motionnoun
Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
Motionnoun
A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
Motionnoun
An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
Motionnoun
Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
Motionnoun
A puppet show or puppet.
Motionverb
To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
Motionverb
To make proposal; to offer plans.
Motionverb
To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
Motionverb
To propose; to move.
Motionnoun
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
Motionnoun
the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
Motionnoun
a change of position that does not entail a change of location;
Motionnoun
a state of change;
Motionnoun
a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote;
Motionnoun
the act of changing location from one place to another;
Motionnoun
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object;
Motionverb
show, express or direct through movement;
Motionnoun
the action or process of moving or being moved
Motionnoun
a gesture
Motionnoun
a piece of moving mechanism
Motionnoun
a formal proposal put to a legislature or committee
Motionnoun
an application for a rule or order of court
Motionnoun
an evacuation of the bowels
Motionverb
direct or command (someone) with a movement of the hand or head
Motionverb
propose for discussion and resolution at a meeting or legislative assembly
Motion
In physics, motion is the phenomenon in which an object changes its position over time. Motion is mathematically described in terms of displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, speed, and time.
Motivenoun
(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
Motivenoun
An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
Motivenoun
A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
Motivenoun
(legal) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
Motivenoun
A motif.
Motivenoun
(music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.
Motiveverb
(transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Motiveadjective
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
Motiveadjective
Relating to motion and/or to its cause
Motivenoun
That which moves; a mover.
Motivenoun
That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object; motivation{2}.
Motivenoun
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.
Motivenoun
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.
Motiveadjective
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
Motiveverb
To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Motivenoun
the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior;
Motivenoun
a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Motiveadjective
causing or able to cause motion;
Motiveadjective
impelling to action;
