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Definition: LEADING MOTIVE |
LEADING MOTIVE1. [a translation of G. leitmotif] (Mus.), a guiding theme; in the modern music drama of Wagner, a marked melodic phrase or short 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. |
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Health | The most compelling inner determinants of human behavior, also called drives, urges, impulses, needs, wants, tensions, and willful cravings. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "LEADING MOTIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | tett fő indítóoka (leading motive of an action). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eadinglay otivemay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-o-t-v" | |
-2 letters: dovetailing. | |
-3 letters: delegation, dominative, eliminated, evidential, gadolinite, intaglioed, levigation. | |
-4 letters: alimented, deleaving, demential, detailing, deviating, deviation, devilment, elevating, elevation, eliminate, elongated, evildoing, geminated, genitival, inveigled, inviolate, levigated, lodgement, mediating, mediation, mediative, negatived, olivenite, toenailed, vigilante, violating. | |
-5 letters: adeeming, agentive, amidogen, avoiding, dateline, delating, delation, deleting, deletion, deliming, dementia, demivolt, demoting, denotive, develing, deviling, devoting, dilating, dilation, dilative, diligent, divalent, dominate, donative, dovetail, eloigned, elongate, emailing, endemial, entailed, entoiled, galenite, gelatine, gelation, geminate, genitive, gimleted, gliadine, gonidial, ideating, ideation, ideative, ilmenite, imagined, intaglio, inveigle, iodating, iodinate, lamented, legatine, legation, lemonade, lenitive, levanted, levigate, liegeman, ligament, ligation, ligative, limonite, lineated, lodgment, longtime, maligned, medaling, medieval, megavolt, melanite, melanoid, melinite, metaling, modeling, monitive, montaged, motiving, negative, nematode, tegminal, timeline, tolidine, valeting, vanitied, vigilant, violated, vitamine, vomiting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 41 44 49 4E 47 4D 4F 54 49 56 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01000001 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001101 01001111 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E A D I N G   M O T I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0041 0044 0049 004E 0047 004D 004F 0054 0049 0056 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)463935384348412474954435639 |
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