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Definitions for Motor

[1] a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
[2] any self-powered vehicle.
[3] 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.
[4] Also called electric motor. Electricity . a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.
[5] motors, stocks or bonds in automobile companies.
[6] pertaining to or operated by a motor.
[7] of, for, by, or pertaining to motor vehicles: motor freight.
[8] 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.
[9] causing or producing motion.
[10] Physiology . conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve.
[11] Psychology , Physiology . Also motoric. of, relating to, or involving muscular movement: a motor response; motor images.
[12] to ride or travel in an automobile; drive: They motored up the coast.
[13] Chiefly British . to drive or transport by car: He motored his son to school.
[14] the engine, esp an internal-combustion engine, of a vehicle (as modifier ) a motor scooter
[15] Also called: electric 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
[16] any device that converts another form of energy into mechanical energy to produce motion
[17] an indispensable part or player that moves a process or system along
[18] mainly British a car or other motor vehicle as modifier motor spares
[19] producing or causing motion
[20] 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
[21] (intr) to travel by car
[22] (tr) British to transport by car
[23] (intr) informal to move fast; make good progress
[24] (tr) to motivate

Words related to Motor

cylinder, generator, transformer, turbine, mechanism, piston, diesel

Words nearby Motor

moto perpetuo, motocross, motofacient, moton, motoneuron, motor, motor area, motor ataxia, motor camp, motor caravan, motor cortex

Origin of Motor

1580–90; < Latin mōtor mover, equivalent to mō- (variant stem of movēre to move) + -tor -tor

Other words from Motor

mul·ti·mo·tor , noun

Word origin for Motor

C16: from Latin mōtor a mover, from movēre to move

Synonyms for Motor

cylinder, generator, transformer, turbine, diesel, mechanism, piston, power train, what's under the hood