Motive vs Image - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
*, III.2.1.ii:
*:there's something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive .
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.
* 1947 , (Malcolm Lowry), Under the Volcano :
(obsolete, rare) A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
(legal) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
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, chapter=10/6, title= (architecture, fine arts) A motif.
(music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.
To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus , Folio Society 2007, p. 195:
Relating to motion and/or to its cause
An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=, title=Pixels or Perish
, volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(American Scientist)
A mental picture of something not real or not present.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy)
A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
(mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
(mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
(obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
* Dryden
To represent symbolically.
To reflect, .
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, chapter 2, ''St. Edmundsbury :
To create an image of.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= (computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
As verbs the difference between motive and image
is that motive is while image is .As an adjective image is
figurative (of sense of term or discourse).motive
English
Noun
(en noun)- Many of them at first seemed kind to him, but it turned out their motives were not entirely altruistic.
- (Shakespeare)
- 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.
Death Walks in Eastrepps, passage=“Why should Eldridge commit murder?
- If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive .
Synonyms
* (incentive ) motivation * (creative works ) motifVerb
Synonyms
* motivateAdjective
(-)- In the motive parts of animals may be discovered mutuall proportions; not only in those of Quadrupeds, but in the thigh-bone, legge, foot-bone, and claws of Birds.
Synonyms
* moving * (relating to motion) motionalExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* ----image
English
(wikipedia image)Noun
(en noun)- The Bible forbids the worship of graven images .
citation, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images , the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
- Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
- The number 6 is the image of 3 under ''f'' that is defined as f(x) = 2*x.
- The image of this step function is the set of integers.
- The face of things a frightful image bears.
Synonyms
* (representation) picture * (mental picture) idea * (something mapped to) value * (subset of the codomain) rangeDerived terms
* imagery * image magic * inverse image * macroimage * mental image * microimage * mirror image * preimage * real image * reimage * spitting image * virtual imageDescendants
* German: (l)Verb
(imag)- we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own, imaging our own, but all unconscious of us; to whom we for the time are become as spirits and invisible!.
Fenella Saunders
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}