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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
- ܱt·tǰ noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of motor1
Example Sentences
He added the pathologist who carried out a post-mortem examination likened the injuries Ms Flynn suffered to those seen in motor vehicle collisions.
Last week, a coalition of US motor industry groups called on the president to not impose 25% tariffs on imported car parts.
Conditions which are not currently on the medical exemption list include Parkinson's disease, cystic fibrosis and motor neurone disease.
"I have made my mother's work easy, one part of the device is set on the roof, and another is a motor," he says.
The standard license plate, used to connect registered vehicles to their owners, is issued to all passenger vehicles, including commercial motor vehicles, motorcycles, permanent trailers, trailer coaches and park trailers.
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