Motive vs. Plan

Motivenoun

(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.

Plannoun

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.’;

Motivenoun

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.

Plannoun

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.’;

Motivenoun

A limb or other bodily organ that can move.

Plannoun

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.’;

Motivenoun

(legal) 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.’;

Plannoun

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

Motivenoun

A motif.

Plannoun

A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an Internet plan.

Motivenoun

(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.’;

Planverb

(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).

‘The architect planned the building for the client.’;

Motiveverb

(transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Planverb

(transitive) To create a plan for.

‘They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.’;

Motiveadjective

Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move

‘a motive argument’; ‘motive power’;

Planverb

(intransitive) To intend.

‘He planned to go, but work intervened.’;

Motiveadjective

Relating to motion and/or to its cause

Planverb

See plan on.

‘I was planning on going, but something came up.’;

Motivenoun

That which moves; a mover.

Planverb

(intransitive) To make a plan.

‘They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.’;

Motivenoun

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.’;

Plannoun

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.

Motivenoun

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.

Plannoun

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.’;

Motivenoun

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.

Plannoun

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.’;

Motiveadjective

Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.

Planverb

To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.

Motiveverb

To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Planverb

To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.

‘Even in penance, planning sins anew.’;

Motivenoun

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’;

Plannoun

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’;

Motivenoun

a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music

Plannoun

an arrangement scheme;

‘the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult’; ‘it was an excellent design for living’; ‘a plan for seating guests’;

Motiveadjective

causing or able to cause motion;

‘a motive force’; ‘motive power’; ‘motor energy’;

Plannoun

scale drawing of a structure;

‘the plans for City Hall were on file’;

Motiveadjective

impelling to action;

‘it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function’; ‘motive pleas’; ‘motivating arguments’;

Planverb

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’;

Planverb

make plans for something;

‘He is planning a trip with his family’;

Planverb

make or work out a plan for; devise;

‘They contrived to murder their boss’; ‘design a new sales strategy’; ‘plan an attack’;

Planverb

make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;

‘design a better mousetrap’; ‘plan the new wing of the museum’;

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.