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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
/ ˈməʊtə /
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 Word Forms
- multi·motor noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of motor1
Example Sentences
It previously said it would consider buying a stake in Japan's Nissan Motor for "co-operation" as it looked to get into the motor industry.
In late 2022, the Department of Homeland Security said state motor vehicle departments needed more time to deal with the backlog of applications and set the final deadline for May 2025.
"Hiyab was in the boat in front of us - its motor wasn't working and it was being propelled by a strong wind," he said.
“As with motor vehicle accidents, the causes of those mishaps 50 or 100 or 1,000 miles apart from one another almost mostly have completely different circumstances involved,” he said.
It was exemplified by his final large rally on the US-Canada border, with the Ambassador Bridge and a skyline of iconic Detroit motoring firms behind him.
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