motive : Idioms & Phrases

E*lec`tro-mo"tive adjective

Definitions

1. Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.

Webster 1913

• (Physics), the force which produces, or tends to produce, electricity, or an electric current; sometimes used to express the degree of electrification as equivalent to potential, or more properly difference of potential.

Webster 1913

• noun motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
  ethics; morals; morality.
  

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• noun a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
  

WordNet

• a translation of G. leitmotif (Mus.), a guiding theme; in the modern music drama of Wagner, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label.

Webster 1913

• noun the power or ability to move
  locomotion; motivity.
  

WordNet

• (Mach.), a natural agent, as water, steam, wind, electricity, etc., used to impart motion to machinery; a motor; a mover.

Webster 1913

• noun a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
  

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