Contributes vs Motivates - What's the difference?
contributes | motivates |
(contribute)
To give something, that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
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To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.
* The weekly staff meeting was meant to motivate employees.
To animate; to propel; to cause to take action
* He was motivated purely by self-interest.
* Steam motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.
As verbs the difference between contributes and motivates
is that contributes is (contribute) while motivates is .contributes
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(contribut)Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
