Motor

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  • noun. Something, such as a machine or an engine, that produces or imparts motion.
  • noun. A device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, especially an internal-combustion engine or an arrangement of coils and magnets that converts electric current into mechanical power.
  • noun. A motor vehicle, especially an automobile.
  • adjective. Causing or producing motion.
  • adjective. Driven by or having a motor.
  • adjective. Of or for motors or motor vehicles.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or designating nerves that carry impulses from the nerve centers to the muscles.
  • adjective. Involving or relating to movements of the muscles.
  • intransitive verb. To drive or travel in a motor vehicle.
  • intransitive verb. To carry by motor vehicle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A motor-car.
  • noun. In anatomy, specifically, a motor nerve.
  • noun. An alternating-current motor in which the wattless current is compensated by a condenser or by auxiliary commutator-brushes; a compensated repulsion-motor.
  • noun. One who or that which imparts motion; a source or originator of mechanical power; a moving power, as water, steam, etc.
  • noun. Specifically
  • noun. In mathematics, an operator or a quantity which represents the displacement of a rigid body.
  • noun. In machinery, a prime mover; a contrivance for developing and applying mechanically some natural force, as heat, pressure, weight, the tide, or the wind; a machine which transforms the energy of water, steam, or electricity into mechanical energy: as, an electric motor. See machine, 2.
  • noun. In anatomy, specifically, a motor nerve.
  • Giving motion; imparting motion.
  • In physiology, conveying from the center toward the periphery an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve: opposed to sensory.
  • Of or pertaining to or acting through the motor nerves or tracts.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A motor car; an automobile.
  • adjective. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A machine or device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
  • noun. A motor car, or automobile.
  • noun. A source of power for something, an inspiration, a driving force.
  • adjective. describing neurons that create the ability to move
  • verb. To drive around leisurely in a motorised vehicle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a nonspecific agent that imparts motion
  • verb. travel or be transported in a vehicle
  • noun. machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion
  • adjective. conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
  • adjective. causing or able to cause motion
  • Word Usage
    "These two gyri, together with the paracentral lobule, were long regarded as constituting the “motor areas” of the hemisphere; but Sherrington and Grunbaum have shown128 that in the chimpanzee the motor area never extends on to the free face of the posterior central gyrus, but occupies the entire length of the anterior central gyrus, and in most cases the greater part or the whole of its width."
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    motored  motoring  motors