motive suomeksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-suomi)

(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
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.
(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.
(architecture, fine arts) A motif.
(music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.

Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
Relating to motion and/or to its cause

there's something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive.
Many of them at first seemed kind to him, but it turned out their motives were not entirely altruistic.
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.
“Why should Eldridge commit murder?[...]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd. […]”
If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.
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.
One could be an excuse for the other—but what’s the it that they want to do? Motive, all the police procedure manuals said, was the main thing to look for. Murray didn’t have a clue on their motive. “I could go crazy doing this.”

Partisiipin perfekti	motived
Imperfekti	motived
Partisiipin preesens	motiving
Monikko	motives
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	motives

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