different between motivate vs coerce

English

Etymology

motive +? -ate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??t?ve?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mo?t?ve?t/

Verb

motivate (third-person singular simple present motivates, present participle motivating, simple past and past participle motivated)

1. (transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.

   The weekly staff meeting was meant to motivate employees.

2. (transitive) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action

   He was motivated purely by self-interest.

   Steam-motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.

Antonyms

• demotivate

Related terms

• motivated
• motivator
• motive

Translations

Italian

Adjective

motivate f pl

1. feminine plural of motivato

Verb

motivate

1. second-person plural present indicative of motivare
2. second-person plural imperative of motivare
3. feminine plural of motivato

Anagrams

• vomitate

English

Etymology

From Latin coercere (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arcere (“to inclose, confine, keep off”); see arcade, arcane, ark.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko???s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?????s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Verb

coerce (third-person singular simple present coerces, present participle coercing, simple past and past participle coerced)

1. (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
2. (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.

3. (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

Synonyms

• compel
• bully
• dragoon

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• coerce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• coerce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

coerc?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of coerce?