Motive vs. Plan — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Motive and Plan
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Motive
An emotion, desire, physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action.
Plan
A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal.
Motive
(mōtĭv, mō-tēv) A motif in art, literature, or music.
Plan
An orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective
A plan for improving math instruction.
Motive
Causing or able to cause motion
Motive power.
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Plan
A proposed or intended course of action
Had no plans for the evening.
Motive
Causing an action
Motive pleas.
Plan
A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline
A seating plan.
The plan of a story.
Motive
(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
Plan
A drawing or diagram made to scale showing the structure or arrangement of something.
Motive
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.
Plan
In perspective rendering, one of several imaginary planes perpendicular to the line of vision between the viewer and the object being depicted.
Motive
A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
Plan
A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit
A pension plan.
Motive
(law) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
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.
Plan
To formulate a scheme or program for the accomplishment, enactment, or attainment of
Plan a campaign.
Motive
A motif.
Plan
To have as a specific aim or purpose; intend
They plan to buy a house.
Motive
(music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.
Plan
To draw or make a graphic representation of.
Motive
(transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Plan
To make plans.
Motive
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
A motive argument
Motive power
Plan
A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
Motive
Relating to motion and/or to its cause
Plan
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.
Motive
That which moves; a mover.
Plan
A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
Motive
That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object; motivation{2}.
By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites, or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctively.
Plan
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
Motive
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.
Plan
A subscription to a service.
A phone plan
An Internet plan
Motive
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.
Plan
(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
The architect planned the building for the client.
Motive
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
Plan
(transitive) To create a plan for.
They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.
Motive
To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Plan
(intransitive) To intend.
He planned to go, but work intervened.
Motive
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;
We did not understand his motivation
He acted with the best of motives
Plan
(intransitive) To make a plan.
They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.
Motive
A theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
Plan
A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
Motive
Causing or able to cause motion;
A motive force
Motive power
Motor energy
Plan
A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.
God's plans like lines pure and white unfold.
Motive
Impelling to action;
It may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function
Motive pleas
Motivating arguments
Plan
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
The simple plan,That they should take who have the power,And they should keep who can.
Plan
To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
Plan
To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
Even in penance, planning sins anew.
Plan
A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished;
They drew up a six-step plan
They discussed plans for a new bond issue
Plan
An arrangement scheme;
The awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult
It was an excellent design for living
A plan for seating guests
Plan
Scale drawing of a structure;
The plans for City Hall were on file
Plan
Have the will and intention to carry out some action;
He plans to be in graduate school next year
The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion
Plan
Make plans for something;
He is planning a trip with his family
Plan
Make or work out a plan for; devise;
They contrived to murder their boss
Design a new sales strategy
Plan an attack
Plan
Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
Design a better mousetrap
Plan the new wing of the museum
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