Englisch-Italienisch Übersetzung für motive
- motivoUn altro motivo è la nazionalità. Another motive is nationality. Quale può essere il motivo alla base di tutto ciò? What possible motive could there be for this? E’ stato questo il motivo alla base del concetto dei quattro quinti. That was the motive behind the four fifths.
Definition für motive
- An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
- 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.
- A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
- Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
- A motif.
- To prompt or incite by a '''motive''or motives; to move
- Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
- Relating to motion and/or to its cause
Anwendungsbeispiele
- 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
- If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive
- a motive argument
- motive power
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