Motive vs. Purpose
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;
Purposenoun
An object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal. "purpose".
Purposenoun
A result that is desired; an intention.
Purposenoun
The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.
Purposenoun
The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
Purposenoun
The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.
Purposenoun
(obsolete) Instance; example.
Purposeverb
(intransitive) To have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
Purposeverb
To design for some purpose.
Purposeverb
To discourse.
Purposenoun
That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
Purposenoun
Proposal to another; discourse.
Purposenoun
Instance; example.
Purposeverb
To set forth; to bring forward.
Purposeverb
To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; - often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
Purposeverb
To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
Purposenoun
an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions;
Purposenoun
what something is used for;
Purposenoun
the quality of being determined to do or achieve something;
Purposeverb
propose or intend;
Purposeverb
reach a decision;
