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motor
[ moh-ter ]
noun
- a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- any self-powered vehicle.
- a person or thing that imparts motion, especially a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery.
- Also called electric motor. Electricity. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.
- motors, stocks or bonds in automobile companies.
adjective
- pertaining to or operated by a motor.
- of, for, by, or pertaining to motor vehicles:
motor freight.
- designed or for automobiles, their drivers, or their passengers:
The hotel has a motor lobby in its parking garage for picking up and discharging passengers.
- causing or producing motion.
- Physiology. conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve.
a motor response; motor images.
verb (used without object)
- to ride or travel in an automobile; drive:
They motored up the coast.
verb (used with object)
- Chiefly British. to drive or transport by car:
He motored his son to school.
motor
/ ˈəʊə /
noun
- the engine, esp an internal-combustion engine, of a vehicle
- ( as modifier )
a motor scooter
- Also calledelectric motor a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy by means of the forces exerted on a current-carrying coil placed in a magnetic field
- any device that converts another form of energy into mechanical energy to produce motion
- an indispensable part or player that moves a process or system along
- a car or other motor vehicle
- as modifier
motor spares
adjective
- producing or causing motion
- physiol
- of or relating to nerves or neurons that carry impulses that cause muscles to contract
- of or relating to movement or to muscles that induce movement
verb
- intr to travel by car
- tr to transport by car
- informal.intr to move fast; make good progress
- tr to motivate
Other 51Թ Forms
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51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of motor1
Example Sentences
More movies or motor to El Compadre Option A would be that I wake up, roll over, flick the TV on and put on a movie.
But the England striker was just getting motoring before an injury after gameweek 21 put him out for six matches.
The UK motoring industry, also hit with an additional 25% tax on all car import to the US announced this week, called the tariffs "deeply disappointing".
"Compared to a conventional aircraft it's got eight motors which is very strange," says Dr Bill Brooks, Skyfly's chief technical engineer.
The strength machines use electric motors to create resistance instead of physical weights, so there’s no clanking.
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