MPage 249
- English Word Motile Definition Producing motion; as, motile powers.
- English Word Motility Definition Capability of motion; contractility.
- English Word Motion Definition 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.
- English Word Motion Definition Power of, or capacity for, motion.
- English Word Motion Definition Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
- English Word Motion Definition Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
- English Word Motion Definition Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- English Word Motion Definition A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
- English Word Motion Definition 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.
- English Word Motion Definition Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
- English Word Motion Definition A puppet show or puppet.
- English Word Motion Definition To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
- English Word Motion Definition To make proposal; to offer plans.
- English Word Motion Definition To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
- English Word Motion Definition To propose; to move.
- English Word Motioned Definition of Motion
- English Word Motioner Definition One who makes a motion; a mover.
- English Word Motioning Definition of Motion
- English Word Motionist Definition A mover.
- English Word Motionless Definition Without motion; being at rest.
- English Word Motive Definition That which moves; a mover.
- English Word Motive Definition That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
- English Word Motive Definition 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.
- English Word Motive Definition 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.
- English Word Motive Definition Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
- English Word Motive Definition To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
- English Word Motiveless Definition Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive.
- English Word Motivity Definition The power of moving or producing motion.
- English Word Motivity Definition The quality of being influenced by motives.
- English Word Motivo Definition See Motive, n., 3, 4.