What's the difference between incite and motive?

Incite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In case 2 Tranilast itself and its metabolic derivative proved to be inciting agents by a drug-induced lymphocyte stimulation test.
  • (2) The EU interior ministers issued a joint statement in which they agreed to renew pressure on the major internet companies to step up their efforts to swiftly report and remove material that aims to incite hatred and terror.
  • (3) Such terrorism, they claim, is led or incited by the Muslim Brotherhood.
  • (4) The 54-year-old, who was jailed for seven years for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, has been fighting extradition since 2004.
  • (5) Antitumor drugs, like any other therapeutic agent, have the ability to incite hypersensitivity reactions.
  • (6) In contrast to clonal T cell neoplasms, an invariant array of seven T gamma gene rearrangements was found to be proportionately distributed within normal polyclonal T cell populations, as well as in benign polyclonal T cell proliferations incited by a wide variety of pathological conditions.
  • (7) Beijing is furious at the Nobel committee's decision to give the award to Liu, who is serving an 11-year sentence for incitement to subversion for co-authoring Charter 08, an appeal for democratic reforms.
  • (8) Liu is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power after co-writing Charter 08, a call for democratic reforms in China.
  • (9) China is furious at the decision to recognise Liu, jailed for incitement to subvert state power after co-authoring a call for democratic reforms.
  • (10) Hampshire police on Wednesday arrested three people on suspicion of using Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger to incite violent disorder in Southampton.
  • (11) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
  • (12) But Tory MP David Morris has written to Metropolitan police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe claiming it was an "incident that may constitute incitement to racial hatred" and asking him to launch an inquiry.
  • (13) The signs are all there: the hate speech, the inciteful statements to supporters, a lot of arms in circulation.
  • (14) He has been held without charges since his arrest on 5 June but has been informed that under martial law he faces up to 14 years in prison on possible charges of inciting unrest, violating cyber laws and defying the junta's orders.
  • (15) Myelin basic protein is the major component of central nervous system (CNS) white matter capable of inciting an autoimmune response which leads to the disease, experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE), in a number of animal species.
  • (16) These findings incite to promote prospective randomized studies with this kind of combined therapy.
  • (17) Geert Wilders , the Dutch politician who faces trial for inciting racial hatred, repeated the sentiment that Europe is now “at war”.
  • (18) He also issued a warning that anyone responsible for inciting post-election mayhem would be barred entry to the United States, where millions of Nigerians live.
  • (19) One man – Guo Xianliang, an engineer from Yunnan Province – is detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power after distributing flyers about Liu and the prize in Guangdong, southern China, the organisation reported.
  • (20) Ongew used to distribute food to the new villages for the government but when villagers began to complain about the absence of services, he was blamed for inciting them.

Motive


Definition:

  • (n.) That which moves; a mover.
  • (n.) That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
  • (n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.
  • (n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.
  • (a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
  • (v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
  • (2) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (3) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (4) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (5) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
  • (6) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (7) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
  • (8) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
  • (9) The decision to an orthodontic treatment was led by esthetic and functional motives.
  • (10) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
  • (11) Three motives are found for evaluating the quality of human life: allocation of scarce medical resources, facilitating clinical decision making, and assisting patients towards autonomous decision making.
  • (12) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
  • (13) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
  • (14) The ATPase inhibitor dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, which collapsed the chemical and electrical components of the proton motive force, caused rapid cell swelling in the presence of glucose (and high intracellular ATP levels).
  • (15) The precondition for cooperation is intensive medical advice covering the following three aspects: 1. education, 2. motivation to put the acquired knowledge into practice, 3. practicability of the advice given.
  • (16) This, along with evidence that kinesin is associated with the endoplasmic reticulum, has led to the suggestion that kinesin provides the motive force for the formation and maintenance of elongated tubulovesicular structures in cells.
  • (17) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
  • (18) Other factors that may have important effects on recovery include the localization, nature, extension and degree of brain damage, the patient's sex and age, the duration of coma, the patient's original cognitive capacity, his personality and motivation as well as the duration and intensity of rehabilitation and the time before starting rehabilitation.
  • (19) So when did audiences become so deferential to a release strategy blatantly motivated by naked financial gain?
  • (20) The major findings were that the test group improved their running time and had better sport motivation than did the control group, and there were differences between boys and girls and an influence of sexual maturation on running time in girls.

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