Synonym: basis, cause, ground, motivation, prompting, reason. Similar words: motivate, motion, promotion, give notice, active, native, incentive, relative. Meaning: ['məʊtɪv] 
n. 1. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior 2. a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music. adj. 1. causing or able to cause motion 2. impelling to action.
n. 1. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior 2. a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music. adj. 1. causing or able to cause motion 2. impelling to action. 
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241. The officials said a suspect was arrested in the northern state of Baja California but a motive had not been determined.
242. Open-end fund market in China has a strong motive of speculation.
243. This paper analyzes the basic motive about entry in the view of industrial organization including expected post-entry return, market growth, career selection of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.
244. An artist can create audio and visual material under concrete motive treating it as a word in poem, and his poetize is also affected by musical and visual composition when layout its words.
245. In the fluid the motive pressure differences act on bodies in parallel motion. On the boundary surface the applied force of the motive pressure difference increases remarkably.
246. The main motive of social security system is to protect those puniness group. Social security system is the important character of social modernization and civilization.
247. Lose momentum and your forward thrust will be curtailed. If you ingest the animosity and acrimonious threats of the nay sayers you will be discouraged, and indeed that is their controlling motive.
248. The impulsive force of breath is the motive force of sound production when a person is singing; so it is the key link in vocal music training.
249. Joseph Alois Schumpeter thought the innovation is not only the motive of the social economic development but also the source of economic period.
250. According to the character of water hammer in long distance flat water supply pipe, the hazard of air chamber motive was analyses.
251. The impulse of appreciation of the beautiful in the writers created enough motive force for literature, and with the internal and external influences, the legendry emerged as the times demanded.
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252. It is proposed in this article that small towns should be dynamically planned, and the circulative accumulation is an important inner motive force for small towns' development.
253. Without assuming noble or self-sacrificing motive, each individual has, nevertheless, become a microcosm of the whole.
254. And in fact, be bought differently and the motive of mobile backside often cannot explain with onefold theory.
255. Plural relating is the fundamental feature of a system, and the source of motive power of the evolution of a system.
256. The special underwater fountain pump is the power motive system of the fountain. It has a completer sizes and a quality warranty. The sensitivity is controlled by the computer.
257. The desire to maintain slavery was not the least motive for the American war of independence, in which some blacks fought on the British side.
258. Nowadays, SMEs become an essential integrant of Ningbo national economy and a motive force, which promotes rapid and sound growth of economy.
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