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mo⋅tor
[moh-ter] 
tər
–noun
| 1. | a comparatively small and powerful engine, esp. an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like. |
| 2. | any self-powered vehicle. |
| 3. | a person or thing that imparts motion, esp. 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. |
–adjective
| 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, pertaining to, or involving muscular movement: a motor response; motor images. |
–verb (used without object)
| 12. | to ride or travel in an automobile; drive: They motored up the coast. |
–verb (used with object)
| 13. | Chiefly British. to drive or transport by car: He motored his son to school. |
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| mo·tor (mō'tər) n.
v. intr. To drive or travel in a motor vehicle. v. tr. To carry by motor vehicle. [Middle English motour, prime mover, from Latin mōtor, from mōtus, past participle of movēre, to move; see meuə- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Motor
Mo"tor\, n. [L., fr. movere, motum, to move.]1. One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power. 2. (Mach.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.Motor
Mo"tor\, Motory \Mo"to*ry\, Motorial \Mo*to"ri*al\, a. [L. motorius that has motion. See Motor, n.] Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion.Motor
Mo"tor\, n. A motor car; an automobile. [Colloq.]
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Language Translation for : motor
Spanish:
motor,
German:
der Motor; Motor-…,
Japanese:
モーター
motor
1447, from L. motor, lit. "mover," from movere "to move" (see move). From 15c. as "controller, prime mover" (in reference to God); sense of "agent or force that produces mechanical motion" is first recorded 1664; that of "machine that supplies motive power" is from 1856. With explosive use 20c. as a comb. form of motor-car. First record of motor-cycle attested 1896; motor-boat is from 1902. Motor-car is from 1895; motorist is from 1896. For motorcade (1913) see cavalcade. First record of slang motor-mouth "fast-talking person" is from 1971.
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Main Entry: mo·tor
Pronunciation: 'mOt-&r
Function: adjective
1 : causing or imparting motion
2 : of, relating to, orbeing a motoneuron or a nerve containing motoneurons <motor fibers> <motor cells>
3 : of, relating to, concerned with, or involving muscular movement<motor areas of the brain>
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motor mo·tor (mō'tər)
adj.
- Causing or producing motion.
- Of or being nerves that carry impulses from the nerve centers to the muscles.
- Involving or relating to movements of the muscles.
- Of or relating to an organism's overt reaction to a stimulus.
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| motor (mō'tər) Pronunciation Key
Noun A machine that uses energy, such as electric or chemical energy (as from burning a fuel), to produce mechanical motion. See also engine. Adjective Involving the muscles or the nerves that are connected to them. Compare sensory. |
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