Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To provide with an incentive or a reason for doing something; impel.
- transitive verb To cause to be enthusiastic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To motive; act as a motive or as the inciting cause of; induce.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To provide with a motive; to move; impel; induce; incite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To provide someone with an
incentive to do something; toencourage . - verb transitive To
animate ; topropel ; to cause to take action
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give an incentive for action
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rarely does a title motivate and inspire me as Having It All has.
Having It All John Assaraf 2003
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If I really wanted to learn how to orate in motivate people and get to know and understand the culture of my ethnic origin but wasn't ever exposed to .......
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Will FEU's second place win motivate them to work harder to win it next year?
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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That’s also a healthy increase over the 525 HP the M156 normally develops and all it has to motivate is a 3,571 Lbs curb weight gull-winged bird of prey (703 Lbs lighter than the SL63 and 326 Lbs lighter than the SLR thanks to an aluminum chassis and body).
HW Cars: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG WestSide Highway Bound « 2010
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You may find it increasingly difficult toward the end of your term to motivate yourself to exercise.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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You may find it increasingly difficult toward the end of your term to motivate yourself to exercise.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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"The importance of motivation is that it gets you to self motivate, which is the behavior that matters in weight loss," Webber explained.
www.kyivpost.com 2010
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"The importance of motivation is that it gets you to self motivate, which is the behavior that matters in weight loss," Webber explained.
www.kyivpost.com 2010
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I could be wrong, but it seems to make more sense to me that coins motivate more reliably than complaints.
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I could be wrong, but it seems to make more sense to me that coins motivate more reliably than complaints.
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