n. [ L. amotio. See Amove. ] 1. Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deprivation of possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to anastomosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n. An agent so used. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the automobile. automotive supplies automotive engineering [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement. an automotive vehicle
Syn. -- self-propelled, self-propelling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. commotio: cf. F. commotion. See Motion. ] 1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ What ] commotion in the winds ! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. [ 1913 Webster ]

When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement. “He could not debate anything without some commotion.” Clarendon.

Syn. -- Excitement; agitation; perturbation; disturbance; tumult; disorder; violence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
Syn. -- CER, conditioned emotion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. dhmotiko`s, fr. dh^mos the people: cf. F. démotique. ] Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. [ 1913 Webster ]

Demotic alphabet or
Demotic character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Enchorial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to ecchymosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Electro-motive force (Physics), the force which produces, or tends to produce, electricity, or an electric current; sometimes used to express the degree of electrification as equivalent to potential, or more properly difference of potential. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: cf. F. émotion. See Move, and cf. Emmove. ] A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.

Syn. -- Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement. -- Emotion, Feeling, Agitation. Feeling is the weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind. Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as, an emotion of pity, terror, etc. Agitation may be bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions. See Passion. “Agitations have but one character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with the objects that awaken them. There are emotions either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or strong, either painful or pleasing.” Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give an emotional character to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with emotion. [ R. ] “The emotioned soul.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. unsusceptible to, destitute of, or showing no emotion; unmoved by feeling. Opposite of emotional; as, he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served. [ Narrower terms: matter-of-fact, prosaic; philosophical, philosophic; phlegmatic, phlegmatical, stolid; stoic, stoical; unblinking ] Also See: cool, passionless, unmoved(predicate), unmoving.
Syn. -- unemotional, passionless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Attended by, or having the character of, emotion. H. Brooke. -- E*mo"tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Susceptibility to emotion. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Emotiveness. Hickok. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to exosmose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) An ideo-motor movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having the same or equal osmotic pressure; isotonic; -- used of solutions. Contrasted with hypertonic and hypotonic
Syn. -- isotonic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ n. [ G., leading motive. ] 1. (Mus.) a guiding theme; in Wagnerian opera, a marked melodic phrase or short musical passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label. Also called Leading motive. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. a recurring theme in the activities of a person or group. [ PJC ]

pos>n. (Steam Engine) A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The illustration shows a link motion for a vertical engine, c representing the shaft carrying two eccentrics, a and b, for making the engine run forward and backward, respectively, their rods e and d being jointed to opposite ends of the slotted link f, in the opening of which is a pin g which is attached to the valve rod h. The valve will receive the motion of the forward eccentric when the link is in the position shown, and the motion of the backward eccentric when the link is shifted so far to the right as to bring e in line with h, or a compound motion derived from both eccentrics when the link is shifted to intermediate positions, the compound motion causing the valve to cut off the steam at a point determined by the position to which the link may have been shifted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. locus place + motio motion: cf. F. locomotion. See Local, and Motion. ] 1. The act of moving from place to place. “ Animal locomotion.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The name of a song and a dance, briefly popular in the 1960's; as, do the locomotion. [ PJC ]

a. [ Cf. F. locomotif. See Locomotion. ] 1. Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consolidation locomotive, a locomotive having four pairs of connected drivers. --
Locomotive car, a locomotive and a car combined in one vehicle; a dummy engine. [ U.S. ] --
Locomotive engine. Same as Locomotive, above. --
Mogul locomotive. See Mogul. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. locomotivité. ] The power of changing place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Magneto- + motive, a. ] (Elec.) Pertaining to, or designating, a force producing magnetic flux, analogous to electromotive force, and equal to the magnetic flux multiplied by the magnetic reluctance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The force that produces magnetic flux. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. manus the hand + E. motive. ] Movable by hand. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] Motive. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In literature and the fine arts, a salient feature or element of a composition or work; esp., the theme, or central or dominant feature; specif. (Music), a motive{ 3 }. See also leitmotif. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

This motif, of old things lost, is a favorite one for the serious ballade. R. M. Alden. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The design . . . is . . . based on the peacock -- a motif favored by decorative artists of all ages. R. D. Benn. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. (Dressmaking) A decorative appliqué design or figure, as of lace or velvet, used in trimming; also, a repeated design. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. [ L. motus motion (fr. movere to move) + facere to make. ] Producing motion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Motive. ] 1. (Biol.) Exhibiting, or capable of, spontaneous movement; as, motile bacteria, motile protozoa, motile cilia, motile spores, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. Producing motion; as, motile powers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Psychol.) A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. motilité. ] (Physiol.) Capability of motion; contractility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. motio, fr. movere, motum, to move. See Move. ] 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace
attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Power of, or capacity for, motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Devoid of sense and motion. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east. [ 1913 Webster ]

In our proper motion we ascend. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mus.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is that when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is that when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is that when parts move in the same direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A puppet show or puppet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What motion's this? the model of Nineveh? Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Motion, in mechanics, may be simple or compound.
Simple motions are: (a) straight translation, which, if of indefinite duration, must be reciprocating. (b) Simple rotation, which may be either continuous or reciprocating, and when reciprocating is called oscillating. (c) Helical, which, if of indefinite duration, must be reciprocating.
Compound motion consists of combinations of any of the simple motions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Center of motion,
Harmonic motion, etc. See under Center, Harmonic, etc. --
Motion block (Steam Engine), a crosshead. --
Perpetual motion (Mech.), an incessant motion conceived to be attainable by a machine supplying its own motive forces independently of any action from without. According to the law of conservation of energy, such perpetual motion is impossible, and no device has yet been built that is capable of perpetual motion. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Syn. -- See Movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Motioned p. pr. & vb. n. Motioning. ] 1. To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make proposal; to offer plans. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To propose; to move. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I want friends to motion such a matter. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to motion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mover. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without motion; being at rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

. 1. A series of pictures on a strip of film, taken at regular intervals in rapid succession (now usually 24 frames per second for ordinary work) by a special camera, intended to capture the image of objects in motion. [ PJC ]

2. the display of the images captured on a motion picture{ 1 }, presented to the eye in very rapid succession by projection from a special apparatus (a movie projector), with shows some or all of the objects in the picture represented in changing positions, producing, by persistence of vision, the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects appear to move as they did in the original scene.
Syn. -- movie, moving picture, flick. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

3. The conceptual or informational content of a motion picture{ 1 }; the actions or events represented in a motion picture{ 1 }; the story line of a movie. “One of the great punch lines in motion picture history is ‘Round up the usual suspects.' from ‘Casablanca'.” [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. -vated p. pr. & vb. n. -vating ] [ From Motive, n. ] To provide with a motive; to move; impel; induce; incite. -- Mo`ti*va"tion n. William James.
Syn. -- move, prompt, incite, induce impel, drive. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

adj. Having a strong motive; -- of people. Opposite of unmotivated. [ Narrower terms: driven, impelled ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]