Motive vs Launch - 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.
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*: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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(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
To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
* 2011 , Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 , page 323
(obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
* 1591 , (Edmund Spenser), The Teares of the Muses
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
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* 1725–1726 , (Alexander Pope), Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V
To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
* 1649 , (Eikon Basilike)
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, title= (often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.
* 1718 , (Matthew Prior), Solomon: On the Vanity of the World , Preface
* 1969 , (Maya Angelou), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , ch. 23:
The act of launching.
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, title= The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
(nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
(nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
(nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha .)
English ergative verbs
As verbs the difference between motive and launch
is that motive is while launch is to throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.As a noun launch is
the act of launching or launch can be (nautical) the boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".motive
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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
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Alternative forms
* lanch (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) /Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi ) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.Verb
(es)- There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears
- And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
- Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
- With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
- All art is u?ed to ?ink Epi?copacy, & lanch Presbytery in England .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
Kill or cure, passage=On September 3rd Bionym, a Canadian firm, launched Nymi, a bracelet which detects the wearer’s heartbeat.}}
- In our language, Spen?er has not contented him?elf with this ?ubmi??ive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths
- My class was wearing butter-yellow pique dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.
Synonyms
* (to pierce) lance, pierceNoun
(es)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
