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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>MOTIONS</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="motionpicture"> motion-picture, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or characteristic of motion pictures. Ex. One of the most characteristic products of the American motion-picture industry is the Western (Saturday Review). </DL> <A NAME="motions"> motions, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under motion. </DL> <A NAME="motionsickness"> motion sickness,<DL COMPACT><DD> a condition characterized by nausea, vomiting, and dizziness, caused by motion or visual disorientation, as in traveling by car, plane, or ship or by watching a motion picture. </DL> <A NAME="motivate"> motivate, transitive verb, -vated, -vating.<DL COMPACT><DD> to provide with a motive or incentive; induce to act; act upon as a motive. (SYN) incite. </DL> <A NAME="motivation"> motivation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of furnishing with an incentive or inducement to action. Ex. Man's motivations emerge from his entire experience (Atlantic). </DL> <A NAME="motivational"> motivational, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with motivation. Ex. motivational analysis. <DD> 2. motivating. Ex. those motivational drives that lead us to write to editors, to vote, to ... (Wall Street Journal). adv. motivationally. </DL> <A NAME="motivational"> motivational or motivation research,<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of what conscious or subconscious influences actually induce people to choose or reject a course of action, especially all the factors that make potential customers buy or refrain from buying a particular commodity or brand. Ex. Motivational research procedures already developed have proved that in many cases they can be used to boost a product's saleability (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="motivative"> motivative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that motivates or tends to motivate. </DL> <A NAME="motivator"> motivator, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that motivates. </DL> <A NAME="motive"> motive, noun, adjective, verb, -tived, -tiving.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a thought or feeling that makes a person act; moving consideration or reason. Ex. His motive in going away was a wish to travel. The poor savages ... had merely gathered together through motives of curiosity (Washington Irving). (SYN) incentive. <DD> 2. a motif in art, literature, or music. Ex. a beautiful motive of festoons. <DD> 3. (Music.) <DD> a. the briefest intelligible melodic or rhythmic fragment of a theme or subject. <DD> b. =subject. <DD> c. =leitmotif. <DD>adj. that makes something move. See also motive power. <DD>v.t. to provide with a motive; supply a motive. adj. motiveless. </DL> <A NAME="motivepower"> motive power,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. power used to impart motion; source of mechanical energy. Ex. For many years the motive power of trains was steam. (Figurative.) Public reputation is a motive power (Benjamin Disraeli). <DD> 2. all the locomotives and other self-propelled vehicles of a railroad. </DL> <A NAME="motivic"> motivic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) of or characteristic of a motif. Ex. motivic themes. </DL> <A NAME="motivity"> motivity, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the power of initiating or producing motion. <DD> 2. =kinetic energy. </DL> <A NAME="motjuste"> mot juste, pl. mots justes.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a word or phrase that exactly fits the case. Ex. Such was the general enthusiasm for her that she was credited with mots justes and insights (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="motley"> motley, adjective, noun, pl. -leys.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. made up of different things or kinds. Ex. a motley crowd, a motley collection of butterflies, shells, and stamps. (SYN) heterogeneous. <DD> 2. of different colors like a clown's suit. Ex. dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear (Longfellow). (SYN) variegated, harlequin. <DD> 3. wearing motley. Ex. a motley fool (Shakespeare). <DD>noun 1. a mixture of things that are different. (SYN) medley, melange. <DD> 2. a suit of more than one color worn by clowns. Ex. At the party he wore motley. Old-time fools and jesters wore motley. <DD> 3. a jester; fool. Ex. I have gone here and there and made myself a motley to the view (Shakespeare). <DD> 4. a woolen fabric of mixed colors, used for clothing from the 1300's to 1600's, especially in England. noun motleyness. </DL> <A NAME="motmot"> motmot, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various tropical birds, related to the kingfishers, having a serrate bill, greenish and bluish feathers, and a tail with long feathers spread like a tennis racket, found in wooded areas of Central and South America. </DL> <A NAME="motocar"> motocar, noun. =motorcar.</DL> <A NAME="motocross"> motocross, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cross-country motorcycle or bicycle race. </DL> <A NAME="motoneuron"> motoneuron, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a motor neuron. Ex. Nerve impulses generated by the motoneuron activate the muscle to which the stretch receptor is attached (Scientific American). </DL> <A NAME="motor"> motor, noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. an engine that makes a machine go. Ex. an electric motor, a gasoline motor. <DD> 2. an apparatus that converts electrical into mechanical energy by the inducing of an electrodynamic response which causes a part (the armature) of the apparatus to revolve. <DD> 3. =internal-combustion engine. <DD> 4. an apparatus that adapts the energy of some natural agent, such as water or wind, or force, such as compression, to mechanical use; prime mover, such as a water wheel or steam engine. <DD> 5. an automobile; motorcar. Ex. The younger generation ... is habituated to motors and cinemas (J. W. R. Scott). <DD> 6. a person or thing that imparts motion or compels action. <DD>adj. 1. run by a motor. Ex. a motor cart, a motor mechanism. <DD> 2. having to do with or by means of automobiles. Ex. a motor tour. <DD> 3. causing or having to do with motion or action; functioning like a motor. <DD> 4a. (of nerves) conveying or imparting an impulse from the central nervous system to a muscle or organ which results in motion or activity. <DD> b. (of muscles, impulses, and centers) concerned with or involving motion or activity. <DD> c. designating the effect of stimuli from the central nervous system causing motion or action. <DD> 5. (Psychology.) of, having to do with, or involving muscular or glandular activity. Ex. a motor response. <DD>v.i. to travel by automobile; ride in an automobile. Ex. The two spent their time ... motoring and walking on the Downs (John Galsworthy). <DD>v.t. (Especially British.) to drive by automobile; take in an automobile. </DL> <A NAME="motorable"> motorable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be traveled over by a motor vehicle. Ex. motorable roads. </DL> <A NAME="motorbicycle"> motorbicycle, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a bicycle with an auxiliary motor. <DD> 2. a light motorcycle. </DL> <A NAME="motorbike"> motorbike, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a motorbicycle. Ex. The motorbike lay on the other side of the road, its wheels in the air, like a dead bug (Atlantic). </DL> <A NAME="motorbiker"> motorbiker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD> 1. a motorcyclist. <DD> 2. a rider of a motorbicycle. </DL> <A NAME="motorboat"> motorboat, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a boat that is run by a motor. </DL> <A NAME="motorboater"> motorboater, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who engages in motorboating. </DL> <A NAME="motorboating"> motorboating, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the sport of riding in a motorboat. Ex. Motorboating did not become practical or popular until the gasoline engine was perfected in the early 1900's (William W. Robinson). </DL> <A NAME="motorbus"> motorbus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bus run by motor. </DL> <A NAME="motorcade"> motorcade, noun, verb, -caded, -cading.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a procession or long line of automobiles. Ex. The crowd ... had gathered to greetMr. Nehru's motorcade (Times of India). <DD>v.i. (Informal.) to travel in or with a large group of automobiles. </DL> <A NAME="motorcar"> motorcar, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =automobile. <DD> 2. Also, motor car. a motor-driven railroad car. </DL> <A NAME="motorcarrier"> motor carrier,<DL COMPACT><DD> a truck or bus line that carries passengers or freight. </DL> <A NAME="motorcoach"> motorcoach, noun, or motor coach, =motorbus.</DL> <A NAME="motorcourt"> motor court,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a motel. </DL> <A NAME="motorcycle"> motorcycle, noun, verb, -cled, -cling.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a vehicle like a bicycle but larger and heavier, run by a motor. Sometimes a sidecar is attached to it, with a third wheel to support it. <DD>v.i. to travel by motorcycle. </DL> <A NAME="motorcyclist"> motorcyclist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who rides a motorcycle. </DL> <A NAME="motordrive"> motor drive,<DL COMPACT><DD> an electric motor used for operating a machine or machines. </DL> <A NAME="motordriven"> motor-driven, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> driven by a motor or motors. </DL> <A NAME="motordrome"> motordrome, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rounded course or track, often rising at an angle or in a curve toward its outer edge, upon which automobile and motorcycle races are run. </DL> <A NAME="motored"> motored, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a motor or motors. </DL> <A NAME="motorgenerator"> motor generator or motor generator set,<DL COMPACT><DD> an apparatus consisting of a combination of one or more motors and one or more generators, used especially to transform electric currents or to lower voltage. </DL> <A HREF="motorhom.dic">NEXT</A>