motorn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈməʊtə/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊdər/

Forms: late Middle English motour, 1500s– motor, 1600s moter.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mōtor.

Etymology: < classical Latin mōtor person who moves or shakes (something), in post-classical Latin also in sense ‘person who (or thing which) moves or causes to move’ (from 13th cent. in British sources) < mōt- , past participial stem of movēre move v. + -or -or suffix.Sense A. 1a is after post-classical Latin primus motor (see primus motor n.). Compare Middle French, French moteur in senses: that which causes movement (1377 in phrase premier moteur ; compare sense A. 1a); that which directs, causes action (1377 in phrase principal moteur ; compare sense A. 1a), machine which uses a source of energy to produce movement (1744; compare sense A. 5a), (plural) nerves which control the movement of the eyes (1771, more fully nerfs moteurs ; compare sense A. 4b); also as adjective: giving movement (1588; 1771 in phrase muscle moteur muscle which moves part of the body; compare sense A. 4b). Compare also Italian motore (1304–8 in sense ‘that which moves celestial objects’; 1519 in Leonardo da Vinci in sense ‘cause, motive’; 1869 in sense ‘mechanism capable of transforming mechanical energy into another form of energy’; 1304–8 as adjective in sense ‘causing movement’), Spanish motor (17th cent.), Portuguese motor (17th cent. as noun and adjective).

A. n.

1. A person who or thing which imparts motion. In full first (also prime) motor.

a. God as creator of the world and prime mover of celestial objects. Now historical.

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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > in philosophy

moverc1385

motor1447

First Causer1526

union1565

monad1642

monas1768

over-soul1841

ens realissimum1847

socius1890

ens necessarium1900

1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 6526 (MED) Vndyrstonde þat oon yet myhtyere is Than al þem, of alle þe creatour, Vnmeuable & of alle oþir þe motour.

1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum 855 God..which is not onely the first beginning as Motor, but as the forme and end, and last act.

1600 E. Wilkinson Thameseidos iii. 544 And thankt the motor of the whirling Spheres, That had not them forgot drowned in teares.

1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 26 From God, that is the true Prime Moter.

1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. iii. iii. 51 Al our movements or motions are from God as the prime Motor... Is he not then the first Cause and Motor of al our motions? Doth not Aristotle..strongly demonstrate, That al our natural motions must arise from one first immobile Motor?

1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xix. 498 God exists, for it is the necessary principle and end of everything, the first motor.

†b. In the medieval version of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy: the outermost of the concentric spheres (sphere n. 2a) supposed to revolve round the earth; = primum mobile n. 1. Obsolete.See also earlier mobile n.¹ 1, first movable n. at movable n. 2, mover n.¹ 1b, first-moving n.

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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > primum mobile

first firmamentc1386

first movablec1400

first-movingc1400

first mobilea1475

primum mobilea1475

first movera1550

primovant1570

motor1586

primovable1625

highest movable1669

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. 197 f. 37^v How the Heauens and Planets make their neuer ceasing course, Vnder their Motor first and great, from whence they had their source.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. vi. 136 The earth is not mooved, by reason of her heavinesse,..being far from this first motor [Sp. primer mobil].

†c. The initiator of something; esp. the instigator of a plot or leader of a political organization, etc. Obsolete.

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the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates > first or chief

moverc1385

motor1600

prime mover1633

actuator1652

apostle1810

prophet1842

1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 187 One of the first moters [It. principali motori] of this popular humour which made him king.

a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 93 Bagnall that was prime motor in the counties of Katarlagh and Kilkeny.

a1665 G. Wilde Loves Hospitall (1973) iv. vi. 89 Y^r fathers minde Was y^e revealed cause; but y^e first motor The very swada of't was thy selfe Facetia.

1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1711) I. xxii. 149 The Fruits of publick Commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first Motor.

†d. A machine or mechanical agency which imparts motion; = first mover at mover n.¹ 1b. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > part of > which sets other parts moving

motion1605

motor1656

messenger1929

servo motor1932

1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 41 Whose prime moter or spring..being set true,..the outward wheeles, motions and indications cannot go amisse.

1849 Sci. Amer. 11 Aug. 369/3 They [sc. Pitcher's regulators] answer for all prime motors, water wheels, engines, etc.

1890 Cent. Dict. Power-house,..a building especially provided to contain the prime motor or motors from which power is conveyed to the driven machinery.

1921 Conquest Oct. 510/2 It appears to have solved the problem generally of how gradually and smoothly to take up and transmit the power of a prime mover or motor.

2. figurative. A source of power, energy, etc.; a driving force.

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1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. G Thine eyes the motors to command my world.

1641 J. Gauden Love of Truth 22 Love is the weight and motor of the soule.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 163 The amassing of property has run out of all figures. It makes the motor of the last ninety years.

1892 K. Pearson Gram. of Sci. ix. 435 The chief motor of modern life with all its really great achievements has been sought..in the individualistic instinct.

1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality xii. 309 Hypophysic hormones are the ‘motor’ of the sexual functions.

1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Feb. 14/1 Dynastic loyalties were the motor of war and peace.

3. gen. Any agent or force acting on a body to produce motion.

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the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > capacity for exertion of mechanical force > motive power or force

motor1644

principle1645

motive power1880

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. x. 426 In heauy thinges, their easy following..an other way then downewardes, testifyeth that their motion downewardes hath an extrinsecall motor.

1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. vi. 72 Convolvula's do not wind by any peculiar nature..but because their parts are disposed so, as to render them sequaceous to the external Motor.

1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion Suppl. 147 The heavier part of the Stople broke off from the other..and was carry'd from it by invisible motors to a great distance.

1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 405/1 The true motor of the system would..be the weight of the atmosphere.

1971 J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xxvi. 366 The heat production from decay of the radio-active elements in the mantle provides the motor [for continental drift].

4. Anatomy.

†a. A motor nerve. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [noun]

sensitive?a1425

motivec1475

life stringc1522

recurrent1615

life corda1631

abducent1681

cord1774

chord1783

motor1824

afferent1828

excitor1836

nerve trunk1850

mixed nerve1861

inhibitory nerve1870

nervelet1875

vaso-motor1887

pilomotor1892

lemniscus1913

1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 760/1 The oculorum motores, so called because they are distributed to the muscles of the eye.

1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I. at Nerves These muscles being the principle instruments in the motions of the eye-lid and eye-ball, this nerve has therefore got the name of motor oculi.]

1824 C. Bell Nerves 33 We cannot forget that this nerve is entirely devoted to the muscles of the tongue; that it is the motor of the tongue.

1840 J. Elliotson Human Physiol. 323 Three [nerves] conveying volition to the muscles of the eyes, the common motors [etc.].

b. A muscle that moves a part of the body.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [noun]

sphincter1578

raiser1588

in-muscle?1609

oblique1612

abducens1615

abductor1615

adductor1615

antagonist1615

bender1615

depressor1615

extender1615

flexor1615

levator1615

quadratus1615

rectus1615

retractor1615

sphincter-muscle1615

accelerator1638

bicepsa1641

elevator1646

adducent1649

lifter1649

rotator1657

flector1666

contractor1682

dilater1683

orbicularis palpebrarum1694

transverse muscle1696

tensor muscle1704

biventer1706

extensor1713

attollent1728

constrictor1741

dilator1741

risibles1785

orbicularis oculi1797

obliquus1799

erector1828

extensor-muscle1830

compressor1836

trans-muscle1836

antagonizer1844

motor1846

evertor1848

inflector1851

protractor1853

prime mover1860

orbicular1872

transversalis1872

invertor1875

skeletal muscle1877

dilatator1878

occlusor muscle1878

sphincter1879

pilomotor1892

agonist1896

1808 J. Barclay Muscular Motions 300 In every motion..there must always be a number of muscles employed, some as motors, some as directors, some as moderators.]

1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Motor..(Anat.) a moving muscle.

1985 Jrnl. Hand Surg. 10A 890 The brachioradialis and pronator teres were the most frequently used motors for the opponensplasty and flexor tendon transfer.

1997 Jrnl. Biomechanics 30 659 The displacements, forces, stresses, and work per volume in the finger motors in some common piano playing movements are calculated.

a. A machine that supplies motive power for a vehicle or other device with moving parts; (in later use) esp. one powered by electricity, internal combustion, or compressed air. Cf. engine n. 9. N.E.D. (1908) notes ‘in recent use also in a narrower sense excluding steam engines.’electric, gas-, induction, jet, linear, reactor, repulsion, rocket motor, etc.: see the first element.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun]

motor1853

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > motor > [noun]

motor1853

electromotor1885

1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Jan. 102/1 The invention of new motors has always been a source of fruitful inquiry.

1877 Galaxy Dec. 845/2 He uses a Gramme electrical machine driven by Brayton's petroleum motor.

1885 Law Times Rep. 51 583/1 The tram-road upon which the steam motor was being driven.

1892 Electr. Engineer 16 Sept. 284/2 There is little difficulty in designing a cart to be driven by a motor, the motor also being able to be used for other purposes, such as winding a drum.

1900 Engineer 2 Feb. 127/3 The main applications of the De Laval steam turbine are:—(1) Turbine motors, driving machinery direct by means of belts or ropes; (2) Turbine dynamos, [etc.].

1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan i. 5 The vehicle..stood at the curb with the motor running as though waiting for a fare.

1949 A. C. Walshaw Heat Engines (ed. 3) xv. 318 There are many types of air motors fitted to the tools and mechanisms which use compressed air.

1980 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 115/2 The largest turbine then known, it helped to win Fourneyron a prize of 6,000 francs for the satisfactory application of water motors to large-scale industry.

1992 Harrowsmith Aug. 22/3 He tried to commit suicide in a car by leaving its motor running inside a garage.

2000 Independent 21 Nov. i. 9/2 The grants are also available for the new hybrid cars that run on both internal combustion engines and electric motors.

b. = motor car n. Also (occasionally): a motorcycle. Formerly also: †a motor carriage or motor tricycle (obsolete). Now chiefly colloquial.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun]

buggy1888

motor vehicle1890

motor carriage1894

autocar1895

jam jar1895

motor car1895

car1896

traction1896

motor1899

bubble1901

machine1901

Lizzie1913

buzz-wagon1914

road car1914

short1914

scooter1917

buzz-box1920

ride1930

drag1935

bus1939

wagon1955

wheels1959

sheen1968

low rider1974

scoot1977

1899 Autocar 4 Nov. 979/1 (heading) My early experiences of a motor—including a tour in the West Country.

1900 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Apr. 344 The purchase by the Prince of Wales of a six horse-power Daimler motor should still further..popularise automobilism.

1912 E. M. Forster Let. 25 Dec. in Hill of Devi (1953) 17 The Luards..got the Maharajah of Indore's motor.

1929 M. de la Roche Whiteoaks xxviii. 381 They were going by motor to the lakes.

1952 L. Talbot Gentlewoman 65 ‘He quite forgot to fuss any more about the motor.’ ‘Car, Archie. Do try to remember to say car. “Motor” went out with the last world war.’

1975 J. B. Wadley in Raleigh Bk. Cycling xii. 152 Motor-paced,..Any number..may contest a race ‘behind the motors’. The pacing machine is a powerful motorcycle.

1982 A. Sayle (title of song) 'Ullo John! Gotta new motor?

1992 M. Bence-Jones Catholic Families xi. 277 Talbot Clifton's motor was likewise ‘commandeered’ by Irregulars.

c. plural. Stock Market, Stocks or shares in motor car companies.

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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock > types of

joint stock1615

fancya1652

water stock1675

Bank stock1694

India stock1702

government stock1734

inscription1800

gas stock1820

railway stock1836

common stock1852

floater1871

blue chip1874

trunks1892

traction1896

omnium1902

mummy1903

motors1908

rollover1947

blue-chipper1953

red chip1968

large-cap1982

small cap1984

1908 Economist 28 Nov. 1045/2 Motors are weaker.

1929 Economist 12 Oct. 675/1 Public utility stocks have made the best showing, with motors lagging in the rear.

1964 Financial Times 31 Jan. 3/1 Most Motors ended fractions higher although reports said that the United Auto Workers Union—mindful of the industry's profits—was preparing to hand manufacturers the biggest package of contract demand in nine years.

1989 Independent 14 Nov. 29/7 Despite brisk two-way trades the price was ‘less than generous’, said Barclays de Zoete Wedd's motors analyst.

†6. Mathematics. A quantity like a vector (having magnitude, direction, and a position which changes with time, as well as a rotational component) which represents the motion of a rigid body. Obsolete.

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1873 W. K. Clifford Math. Papers (1882) 183 I propose to call this quantity a motor; the simplest type of it being the general motion of a rigid body. And we shall say that in general the sum of rotors is a motor, but that in particular cases it may degenerate into a rotor or vector.

1878 W. K. Clifford Elem. Dynamic i. 125 A quantity like a twist-velocity, which has magnitude, direction, position, and pitch, is called a motor, from the twist-velocity which is the simplest example of it.

1885 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 7 293 It appears that a bivector represents a motor (screw), and that a biquaternion represents the quotient of two motors.

7. Psychology. A person who relies upon motor (kinaesthetic) representations in mental imagery or processes. Cf. motile n. Now disused.

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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental image > [noun] > being motor-minded > one who is

motile1886

motor1890

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xviii. 62 The young savage was a motor.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xiv. 347 The shrew-type is defined as possessing an ‘active unimpassioned temperament’. In other words, shrews are the ‘motors’, rather than the ‘sensories’.

1929 J. Adams Everyman's Psychol. vii. 155 Men fall into two classes of sensories and motors... Motors have to receive sense impressions, and sensories have to send out messages leading to actions.

1929 J. Adams Everyman's Psychol. vii. 156 The motor is often on the edge of action, eager to go.

8. Cell Biology.

a. More fully molecular motor. Any of various molecules, molecular systems, etc., which can produce the mechanical effect of moving other molecules or organelles within a cell.

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1964 Acta Otolaryngol. 57 33 (title) On hyaluronate molecules in the labyrinth as mechanoelectrical transducers, and as molecular motors acting as resonators.

1982 Math. Biosci. 2 2 The cellular motor of blue-green algae has as yet not been identified.

1993 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 121 1357 The theory provides a natural classification scheme for the motors: it correlates the biochemical and mechanical differences between ‘porters’ such as cellular kinesins or dyneins, and ‘rowers’ such as muscular myosins or flagellar dyneins.

2010 G. Karp Cell & Molecular Biol. (ed. 6) ix. 328 The binding and hydrolysis of a single ATP molecule is used to drive a power stroke that moves the motor a precise number of nanometers along its track.

b. A mechanism in bacteria which causes flagella to rotate, consisting of a rotor (rotor n. 7), stator (stator n.² 3), and other structural elements.A motor is built up from about twenty different proteins and derives its energy from the flow of protons or sodium ions across the cell membrane; this energy is converted to rotary motion.

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1975 F. O. Schmidt et al. Functional Linkage in Biomolecular Syst. xiii. 292 A flagellum is driven at its base by a rotary motor, implying the existence of biological equivalents to a rotor, a stator, and rotary bearings.

1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) 720 This disc is part of a tiny ‘motor’ that uses the energy stored in the transmembrane H⁺ gradient to rotate rapidly and turn the helical flagellum.

2005 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 187 5645/2 The motor torque was found to be nearly constant over a wide range of speeds, which is predicted for a mechanism in which energy from the ion gradient is used to apply force to the rotor.

B. adj.

1. Anatomy and Physiology. Designating the neural structures (nerves, neurons, etc.) that initiate and coordinate movement, esp. those that cause contraction of skeletal muscle or other effector activity, such as glandular secretion; of or relating to such structures of the nervous system. Cf. earlier motory adj. 1.motor area, cortex, etc.: see sense A. 5.

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the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [adjective]

motive?a1425

recurrent1578

motory1683

refluent1741

abducent1752

motorial1768

internuncial1821

motor1823

centrifugal1828

unfilamentous1828

masticatory1834

aesthesodic1859

incito-motor1865

vaso-motor1865

kinesodic1874

centripetal1877

vaso-motorial1877

incito-motory1884

augmentor1885

pilomotor1891

postfixed1892

postganglionic1892

precellular1892

prefixed1892

preganglionic1892

plurisegmental1898

nocifensor1936

the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [adjective] > muscular movement

extensive1646

abducent1649

peristaltic1652

metaleptic1656

spastic1822

spasmodic1836

ideomotor1854

idiomuscular1860

fibrillary1875

motor1878

myotatic1881

antergic1890

isometric1891

isotonic1891

neurogenic1901

synkinetic1901

ballistic1905

motoric1926

the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [adjective] > relating to

excito-motory1836

motoric1852

motory1865

excito-motor1870

strio-1877

motor1878

motorial1899

1823 C. Bell in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 113 300 The seventh is the auditory nerve, and the division of it, called portio dura, is the motor nerve of the face and eyelids.

1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 720/2 A nerve may contain sentient and motor fibres.

1878 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 5 766 The largest nerves of the human body (sciatics) arise precisely from that point of the lumbar cord where we find the largest, so-called motor, cells.

1917 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 46 213 The pallidal system is motor, controlling automatic and associated movements.

1942 O. Larsell Anat. Nerv. Syst. xxiv. 326 The upper motor neuron fibers of the pyramidal tract terminate in synaptic relation to large motor cells in the anterior column of the gray matter of the spinal cord.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. iii. 81/1 Each terminal bud is in close proximity to a specialized segment of a muscle fiber called the motor end plate.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xvi. 577 The special visceral motor column for branchial musculature is broken up into separate..motor nuclei.

2. Of muscle or muscles; of, relating to, involving, or based on muscular movement or activity.Cf. earlier motory adj. 1.

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1848 E. Forbes Naked-eyed Medusæ 3 The muscular system usually consists of a marginal motor ring.

1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XIII. 474 Motor pareses and paralyses.

1884 J. Sully Outl. Psychol. vii. 247 In general the motor representations are weak as compared with the sensory.

1899 A. G. Whyte tr. A. Binet Psychol. of Reasoning 24 When we think of the ball, this idea must comprise the images of these muscular sensations, as it comprises the images of the sensations of sight and touch. Such is the motor image.

1936 Amer. Speech 11 88/2 Speech responses are so complex that they can hardly be considered identical with motor reflexes.

1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour v. 56 People converted at public meetings are more easily hypnotized, display more motor automatisms and can therefore be classified to some extent as hysterics.

1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. (Parade Suppl.) 6/4 From age 5 until 11–13, boys and girls..are comparable in overall motor ability.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 8 June a10/5 How do you teach laboratory science to children with severely impaired motor skills?

3. Of a force, power, etc.: giving, imparting, causing, or producing motion. Also figurative.

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the world > movement > [adjective] > initiating or causing movement

motivea1400

moving?a1425

agitative1528

motionary1612

motory1799

motor1849

1849 G. G. Foster New York in Slices 126 The substitution of bands for cog-wheels as immediate motor powers where vast and complicated motions were required, was boldly adopted by Messrs. Hecker & Brother.

1872 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) I. ii. xx. 506 The accelerating force produced..would be inefficient as a motor power.

1899 Daily News 15 June 6/5 The motor power of the future was not to be steam..but electricity.

1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner May 129/2 No one..would work without incentive. Competition is the—the motor power, you see.

1969 A. Cairncross in Advancement of Sci. 26 66/2 It still leaves consumer demand as the principal motor force governing economic activity.

1991 J. Darracott Art Criticism (BNC) 19 National or political fervour can alternatively be the motor force of remarkable artistic achievements.

4. Botany. Designating the structures (cells, tissues, etc.) involved in the movements of plant parts; (also) of or relating to such movements.

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1882 J. S. Burdon-Sanderson in Nature 10 Aug. 354/1 In those little cylinders, the powers of motion of the leaf have their seat. They may, therefore, be called the motor organs of Mimosa.

1894 F. de F. Heald in Bot. Gaz. 19 481 Instead of the term which is in such common use, motile organ, I propose to adopt the term motor organ for those structures whose curvatures set in motion other passive parts.

1914 M. Drummond tr. G. Haberlandt Physiol. Plant Anat. xi. 543 It will be found convenient to distinguish between active and passive motor-tissues.

1928 J. C. Bose (title) The motor mechanism of plants.

1940 New Phytologist 39 104 Some simple storage tissues..react in a way similar to that of the specialized motor organs.

1989 Jrnl. Exper. Bot. 40 1063/1 The leaf is in a state of equilibrium, resulting from restoration of osmotic balance in the pulvinar motor tissue.

1995 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 82 1507/2 Differential K⁺ flux between extensor and flexor regions is..osmotically adjusted by influx or efflux of water, resulting in differential turgor between extensor and flexor motor cells and leaf movement.

Compounds

C1. Compounds of the noun.

a. General attributive.

(a) Designating a vehicle, ship, etc., driven or powered by a motor.

motor ambulance n.

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1915 Manch. Guardian 25 May 5/6 The R.A.M.C. Territorials..succeeded in collecting nearly all the casualties. These were then taken into Zonnebeke village in six motor-ambulances.

1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 318/1 He financed..three motor ambulance convoys, which he maintained at his own expense throughout the war.

motor cab n.

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1896 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos 25 Sept. 4/3 But, for the convenience of medical men who would like to keep their own vehicles and still do not care to pay for horse feed, the physician's motor cab has been invented.

1992 Sunday Times of India 19 Apr. 23/1 An entry (toll) tax at the rate of Rs 50 per day per motor cab and light motor vehicle.

motor-canoe n.

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1979 Washington Post 22 Apr. (Mag.) 26/2 The four of us left a cold and ice-clogged Broughton Island, cruising by motor canoe to the head of North Pangnirtung Fjord.

1994 Arctic Circle Spring 22/2 It is too..vulnerable to low-water conditions for tours coming upriver by motor-canoe.

motor carriage n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun]

buggy1888

motor vehicle1890

motor carriage1894

autocar1895

jam jar1895

motor car1895

car1896

traction1896

motor1899

bubble1901

machine1901

Lizzie1913

buzz-wagon1914

road car1914

short1914

scooter1917

buzz-box1920

ride1930

drag1935

bus1939

wagon1955

wheels1959

sheen1968

low rider1974

scoot1977

1894 Manufacturer & Builder Apr. 81/3 In Fig. 2 is shown a view of the motor carriage and one trailer, as constructed for suburban and cross-country traffic.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 20 July 5/1 In motor-carriage design, as in many other things in the country, there is no uniformity.

1988 Road & Track Nov. 156 (advt.) Classic Motor Carriages has eliminated..legwork..by compiling the first easily assembled, complete 1934 Ford replica kit.

motorcraft n.

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1905 Daily Chron. 17 June 9/1 The latest regulation that no small boat should ‘lock’ with a motor-craft appears to have caused considerable surprise.

1999 Christian Sci. Monitor 18 Oct. 19/3 The peace was still being shattered..by the growling passage of motorcraft.

motor cruiser n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > motorboat

motor boat1871

cabin cruiser1921

motor cruiser1921

runabout1932

cruiser1971

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > motor-cruiser

cabin cruiser1921

motor cruiser1921

cruiser1971

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Oct. 23/2 The motor cruiser Speejacks was reported safe last night.

1999 J. Raban Passage to Juneau viii. 433 Sailboats and motor cruisers zigzagged from inlet to inlet.

motor-float n.

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1907 A. Williams Romance Mod. Mechanism viii. 165 Messrs. Merryweather..built the motor float, 32 feet long,..drawing 27 inches. Two engines, each having four cylinders of a total of 30 h.p.

1924 B. Gilbert Bly Market 17 ‘That Pickard’ the Winch dealer who had so benefited by the War that he'd bought a motor-float.

1951 Pop. Mech. May 109 (caption) The ‘trailer hitch’ for the motor float is mounted on a wood block inside the flap on the boat stern.

1978 D. Toulmin Harvest Home 118 A motor float came and took the brute away, and a gie struggle the driver had loading him.

motor-gun n.

ΚΠ

1889 F. R. Stockton Great War Syndicate 107 The bow of the repeller was brought to bear upon the ‘Adamant’, and her motor gun was aimed at the boom from which the cannon was suspended.

1908 H. G. Wells War in Air ii. §2 Near Maidstone they came on a string of eleven motor-guns.

1915 Motor Age 2 Sept. 18/1 Captain William J. Smedberg, Jr.,..the machine gun expert of the United States army, has accompanied this motor gun troop as officer of instruction.

2003 J. Loret in J. Loret & J. T. Tanacredi Easter Island i. 25 An adapter was machined to fit the coring bit to the ‘Sioux’ air motor gun, model #1454.

motor hansom n. now historical

ΚΠ

1900 Amer. Manuf. 22 Mar. 238/1 Repair account on the motor hansom is necessarily greater than on the two-wheel horse hansom.

1904 Daily Chron. 8 Jan. 9/5 The County Council insists that the motor hansom shall also be registered.

1997 D. Culshaw & P. Horrobin Compl. Catal. Brit. Cars 1895–1975 330/1 (caption) 1905 Vauxhall 9-hp Motor Hansom.

motor hearse n.

ΚΠ

1922 Daily Mail 4 Nov. 10 The charges for licences on motor-hearses and handies.

1973 ‘R. MacLeod’ Burial in Portugal i. 23 An elderly motor hearse with black paintwork and tarnished chrome..carried a polished oak coffin.

motor landau n. now historical

ΚΠ

1903 Car Illustr. 4 152/1 The very handsome motor landau which we illustrate herewith has been built by the firm of Charron, Girardot, and Voigt for Miss Alice de Rothschild.

1916 ‘R. Dehan’ Earth to Earth 73 The motor-landau in waiting for him at Covertsham Station, Deershire, was destined to receive a second passenger.

1979 C. E. King Antique Toys & Dolls 4 A clockwork chauffeur-driven motor landau with folding seats.

2009 S. Hylton Horseless Carriage iv. 37 The motorised equivalent of this [coach] was called the motor landau or landaulette, and was the most popular form of closed car just prior to the First World War.

motor launch n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > launch

launch1865

motor launch1897

ML1928

vedette1963

1897 Autocar 10 July 442/1 (heading) To the naval review in a motor launch.

1935 Discovery Dec. 372/2 A little undecked motor-launch for inshore work.

1999 National Trust Mag. Summer 64/1 (advt.) We travel by motor launch to Murano famous for its Venetian glass factories.

motor lifeboat n.

ΚΠ

1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 26 May 415/1 Motor-Lifeboats. Yet another application of the gasolene motor is found in its use..as a means of propulsion in some new lifeboats recently constructed.

1992 Ships Monthly Apr. 22/1 Lifesaving equipment includes four..motor lifeboats.

motor-liner n.

ΚΠ

1913 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 31/1 The motor-liner above mentioned and her two sister-ships were built.

1931 Evening Standard 16 Jan. 9/1 (caption) The new motor-liner Warwick Castle leaving Belfast for her final trials.

motor lorry n.

ΚΠ

1897 Autocar 10 July 443 (caption) Motor lorry at the Royal Agricultural Society's Exhibition.

1934 Discovery Apr. 94/1 In most portions of the globe explorers under the new order have the valuable aids of aeroplane and motor-lorry.

1992 S. Holloway Courage High! xxviii. 223/1 These [Sea Trucks]..were shallow–draught vessels, their decks resembling the ‘trays’ of motor lorries.

motor meter n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > instrument measuring or recording automatically > specific

gas meter1815

wet meterc1865

slot-meter1899

motor meter1903

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > devices for > specific

meter1832

time stamp1855

telemeter1877

tape recorder1892

slot-meter1899

motor meter1903

check meter1909

Recordak1928

Thermo-Fax1953

ultramicrofiche1967

ultrafiche1971

electronic tag1980

1903 L. C. Reed Amer. Meter Pract. iii. 37 These ten watts are the input into the motor meter, and the efficiency of this motor meter will give the ratio of the torque exerted on the armature.

1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 I. 73/2 Ayrton and Perry invented a clock meter and a motor meter which served as models for the meters now used.

1971 Gloss. Electrotechnical, Power Terms (B.S.I.) i. iv. 12 Motor meter, meter incorporating a motor.

motor mower n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > lawn-mower

steam lawn-mower1812

grass cutter1834

grass mower1855

lawn-mower1875

grass trimmer1876

lawn-cutter1897

motor mower1907

power mower1913

lawn edger1960

Strimmer1978

1907 ‘J. Halsham’ Lonewood Corner 149 The motor-mower and the electric elevator will presently demand attention.

1998 BBC Top Gear Mag. Sept. 53/2 Entries are cobbled together with engines extracted from motor mowers..or even strimmers.

motor omnibus n.

ΚΠ

1896 Beaumont in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 10 Jan. 161 The motor omnibus shown by Fig. 48.

1908 Sketch 11 Sept. 340 We are at last to have a service of motor-omnibuses in London.

1955 Times 9 May 9/1 The tyres of motor omnibuses, it was said, were punctured.

motor plough n. now historical

ΚΠ

1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 764/2 Great things are anticipated of a new method of land culture by means of a motor-plough.

1919 C. S. Churchill Let. 9 Mar. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) x. 219 He insists on grubbing the 2 wild fields at once & turning a motor plough on to them.

2006 G. R. Quick Austral. Tractors x. 71/1 The 10-disc motor plough..was claimed to be capable of two acres an hour.

motor ship n.

ΚΠ

1912 Motor Ship & Motor Boat 1 Aug. 77 (caption) M. S. ‘Zoroaster’, one of the first large motor ships to be put into service.

1992 Ships Monthly Apr. 19/1 The motor ship Clan MacGowan..was built for Clan Line Steamers Ltd.

motor-sledge n.

ΚΠ

1908 Daily Chron. 17 Aug. 1/4 From that station the party will explore the interior in motor-sledges, following..the example of the British expedition now in Victoria Land.

1999 C. Orsman South 42 Here are the motor-sledges careering to the horizon.

motor-sloop n.

ΚΠ

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Jan. 33/3 M. Knut Stubbendorff..chartered the motor-sloop Isbjörn.

motor toboggan n.

ΚΠ

1948 New Deal for Saskatchewan Fisheries 20 Motor toboggans..manoeuver in almost any kind of terrain.

1992 North & South (Auckland) Feb. 23 In recent years the..motor toboggan had become the main mode of transport.

motor torpedo boat n.

ΚΠ

1940 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 7 Aug.–1 Oct. 16 One of our motor torpedo-boats, thinking that the enemy ahead was an E-boat, and being too close to take action, rammed the enemy.

1998 Canal Boat & Inland Waterways June 102/2 A selection of houseboats, among which was an ex–Admiralty Fairmile motor torpedo boat.

motor tractor n.

ΚΠ

1905 Sci. Amer. 4 Nov. (Suppl.) 24948/3 At the recent show of the British Royal Agricultural Society great interest was centred in the Scott motor tractor.

1993 G. Ward Water Damage (1994) xii.133 He had graduated to the steam traction engines and the old clacking motor tractors.

motor train n. now historical

ΚΠ

1895 Northwestern Reporter 63 25/1 The motor train on which he proposed riding had just passed, when Melvln came out of the alley.

1927 Observer 13 Nov. 13/3 ‘Rail motors’ or ‘motor trains’, may either take the form of self-contained vehicles having a steam or petrol engine built into the coach, or of trains hauled by very small engines and arranged to be driven from either end.

1993 G. L. Thompson Passenger Train in Motor Age Notes 219 In 1930, expenses are shown as $1.05 per train mile for the steam train and $0.60 per mile for the motor train.

2000 A. C. Mierzejewski Most Valuable Asset of Reich II. ii. ii. 35 The Reichsbahn introduced more high-speed motor train services, creating a network that linked the major population and business centers of the country by 1938.

motor-tricycle n.

ΚΠ

1896 Beaumont in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 10 Jan. 152 The motor tricycle shown by Fig. 34 is an oil motor cycle made in 1883.

1999 Stamp Mag. Dec. 112/2 Tuk–tuk (present day passenger motor-tricycle).

motor truck n.

ΚΠ

1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 July 15/5 The iron-shod war horse of former days has evolved into the padded wheel motor car, motor truck, and motor cycle of 1916.

1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Dec. 72/3 It carried the mysterious, celebratory words that all Indian motor trucks have at the back: OKTATA.

motor vessel n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel

powerboat1830

motor boat1871

motor vessel1931

1931 Daily Tel. 21 May 7/5 Pioneers of motor-vessels to the East.

1996 Daily Tel. 11 Oct. 29/3 A line of six German Raumboote, armed motor vessels, was sighted.

motor-wagon n.

ΚΠ

1895 Autocar 16 Nov. 30/2 Can there be devised a steam or other motor-waggon which will travel fifty or sixty miles, and take to the nearest market the farmer's corn?

1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning iii. i. 320 The raiders..helped themselves..loading the loot into light motor-wagons.

motor yacht n.

ΚΠ

1905 Outing May 218/2 A 90 foot motor yacht was launched late last season.

2000 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. a4/1 His black–and–white motor yacht..was tethered to a pier.

(b) Of, relating to, or designed for use in motors, motor vehicles, or motoring.

motor accident n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > collision or accident

car accident1834

street accident1835

accident1836

smash-up1856

car crash1877

car wreck1877

motor accident1910

wreck1912

crash1917

rollover1955

prang1959

shunt1959

1910 ‘Saki’ Reginald in Russia 17 What I had mistaken for a motor accident was evidently a case of savage assault and murder.

1972 ‘M. Yorke’ Silent Witness vi. 123 Roy's father had been killed in a motor accident.

motor age n.

ΚΠ

1899 (title) Motor Age.

1936 Pop. Mech. 66 674/1 The motor court is a recent development of the motor age.

1988 G. E. Cherry Cities & Plans (BNC) 170 The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year.

motor bonnet n.

ΚΠ

1908 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 13/2 The motor-bonnet to match is quite a good feature. This more or less new whim in motoring headgear has been a big success, so becoming is it with its little frill of lace and its rosettes.

1937 J. Laver Taste & Fashion x. 151 The latest trimming for these motor bonnets.

motor cap n.

ΚΠ

1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Jan. 3/4 (advt.) Motor Caps. 50c, 75c, $1.00 reduced to 40c.

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 882/2 Motor caps... Seal fur caps, with earflaps.

motor chassis n.

ΚΠ

1915 Pearson's Mag. Jan. 25 Great lines of these old motor-chassis, mounted with a serviceable lorry body, are to be met with on all the roads of France.

1928 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 42 325 The motor chassis assembling industry.

motor clothing n.

ΚΠ

1903 Motor News June 191 (advt.) Switzer's motor clothing.

1907 Yesterday's Shopping 881/1 Fur Motor Clothing..Russian Pony, natural Raccoon Collar.

motor club n.

ΚΠ

1909 Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 4/2 In the consumption trial of the Liverpool Motor Club a 10-12 Humber car..carried off the first prize.

1993 Dressage & CT Apr. 35/2 Equine Roadgard is a motor club that reimburses members for emergency road service to their..horse trailers.

motor coat n.

ΚΠ

1903 Motor News June 191 (advt.) Switzer's Motor Clothing... Motor Coat (as illustration). Can be worn either as an ordinary coat, or..the skirt can be enlarged so as to form a complete Coat and Apron.

1910 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 480/1 A long leather motor-coat.

motor-course n.

ΚΠ

1909 C. Weld-Blundell in Englishman 24 Feb. 410/1 Let them by all means run on their own motor-courses, enjoy each other's stench, [etc.].

motor dealer n.

ΚΠ

1931 Man. Morris Minor Car (Morris Motors Ltd.) 50 Gauges for testing balloon tyre pressures can be bought from all reputable motor dealers.

1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. (Suppl.) 10/6 Thulecraft Ltd Marine & Motor Dealers..Xmas ideas..Toy quads.

motor fitter n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > engineer > [noun] > motor mechanic

motor mechanic1913

mech1918

grease monkey1928

motor fitter1961

1961 Evening Standard 26 July 22/6 Skilled..motor fitter required.

1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry ix. 77 He's a mechanic, but he'd rather be called a motor fitter.

motor garage n.

ΚΠ

1902 Times 1 Mar. 4/3 Motor Garage.

1926 ‘N. Shute’ Marazan viii. 272 I got a job as odd boy in a motor garage.

motor goggles n.

ΚΠ

1914 M. Beerbohm Seven Men (1919) 127 He did not wear motor-goggles.

1936 A. Ransome Pigeon Post xxii. 224 John, his eyes protected by motor goggles, was at work at the vein with hammer and chisel.

motor-hooter n.

ΚΠ

1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson xix. 291 All along the soaked towing-path lay strewn the horns, the rattles, the motor-hooters, that the youths had flung aside.

motor horn n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > horn

horn1901

motor horn1904

hooter1908

pip-pip1909

honker1910

1904 A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist xii. 258 The note of the motor-horn is not beautiful.

1970 V. Canning Great Affair xii. 211 A chorus of motor horns began to blow in anger at some road block.

motor industry n.

ΚΠ

1896 Autocar 4 Apr. (front cover) Certain Capitalists, prominent in the Motor Industry, have already acquired several Motor Patents.

1937 Times 22 Nov. 21/3 On top of this disappointment came a fresh outbreak of ‘outlaw’ strikes in the motor industry.

2000 Independent 3 May i. 2/1 The crisis in what is left of our motor industry.

motor insurance n.

ΚΠ

1917 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 25 561 Motor-car insurance was introduced in this country in the same year.]

1933 G. W. Gilbert (title) Motor insurance.

1998 V. Wallis Which? Guide to Insurance v. 69 You must have a ‘certificate of motor insurance’.

motor jerkin n.

ΚΠ

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 465 In motor jerkin, green motorgoggles on his brow.

motor journey n.

ΚΠ

1907 L. P. De Castelvecchio tr. L. Barzini Pekin to Paris xiv. 412 The wind and the splashes of mud..prevented him from appreciating any longer the pleasures of too long a motor journey.

1922 V. McGill (title) Diary of a motor journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.

2005 S. Yu & J. Chen tr. Zhang Jie She knocked at Door xv. 191 I have been on a motor journey. I went to the south of the States, the high plateaus of the southwest, the Pacific coast.

motor lantern n.

ΚΠ

1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xxi. 248 Humphrey had hung one of the motor lanterns on to a branch.

motor licence n.

ΚΠ

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 413/2 The motor licence case.

1919 Outing Mar. 332/2 You invest in a brand new motor license every year.

motor-mania n.

ΚΠ

1957 Railway Mag. June 392/1 The beginnings of a reaction from the worst of motor-mania are bringing the uninitiated back on to the narrow gauge.

1966 Punch 16 Feb. 232 The ingenuity, energy and wealth that mechanised intellectual Peter Pans devote to indulgence of their motor-mania.

motor manufacturer n.

ΚΠ

1903 Motor. Ann. 253 Rhodesia has appealed to motor manufacturers to supply motor-wagons or tractors for use specially in hilly country.

1999 Which? May 16/3 We complained about this term to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

motor-mask n.

ΚΠ

1916 War Illustr. 5 451/3 Our goggles..are shaped like a motor-mask.

motor mechanic n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > engineer > [noun] > motor mechanic

motor mechanic1913

mech1918

grease monkey1928

motor fitter1961

1913 F. H. Rogers & G. W. Watson (title) The motor mechanics' handbook.

1990 J. Gribben & M. Rees Cosmic Coincidences (1991) xi. 276 The average quantum mechanic is no more philosophical than the average motor mechanic.

motor museum n.

ΚΠ

1974 Country Life 14 Nov. 1496/1 Yet another motor museum to attract the public.

1986 Dict. National Biogr. 1971–80 302/1 Neither Speed of the Wind nor Thunderbolt survived for honourable retirement in a motor museum.

motor oil n.

ΚΠ

1910 Polit. Sci. Q. 25 380 The tax on motor oil would advance the interests of the Standard Oil Company.

2000 M. Hamid Moth Smoke xiii. 214 I look at..his chin streaked with motor oil.

motor race n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun]

motor race1900

motor racing1905

lappery1937

1900 Racing Rules & Regulations (Motor Car Club) 11 In all Motor Races held under the Rules of the Motor Car Club it must be stated on all Entry Forms..that they are so held.

1936 J. B. Priestley They walk in City iii. 41 An aeroplane parade, a motor race, a parade of cadets.

1982 G. Lyall Conduct of Major Maxim 154 Fraulein Winkelmann sat down again, staring at the TV. There was a zooming motor race on.

motor racing n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun]

motor race1900

motor racing1905

lappery1937

1905 Official Programme Internat. Tourist Trophy 4 A new departure in the history of motor racing.

2000 Independent 20 Sept. (Business Review section) 7/5 Motor racing is one of Roger's passions.

motor ride n.

ΚΠ

1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xx. 241 You owe me a motor-ride, you know.

1989 B. Paris Louise Brooks i. ii. 39 A trip around the world is better than a motor ride to a roadhouse.

motor-road n.

ΚΠ

1909 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 2/2 Of more dramatic interest is the second part of the Bill, with its proposal for the creation of motor-roads.

1991 Classical Rev. 41 392 This route—still probably not a motor–road—was much used in 1943–44.

motor run n.

ΚΠ

1908 H. James Let. 16 Dec. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) ii. 104 I..am only troubled least [read lest] you shouldn't be able to tell me about John Hugh before my nephew. We will appoint at any rate a motor-run for the purpose.

1936 J. Joyce Let. 18 Nov. (1966) III. 393 Perhaps you could make your suggested motor run to the school at Zug?

motor salesman n.

ΚΠ

1936 J. B. Priestley They walk in City i. 17 Mysterious and vaguely amorous gentlemen friends, usually commercial travellers or motor salesmen, loom and soar and suddenly vanish.

1973 A. Behrend Samarai Affair vi. 65 That Bromborough motor salesman chap separated from his wife.

motor scarf n.

ΚΠ

1899 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xxii. 261 Motor scarves.

1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 1420 (caption) Chiffon Motor Scarf, wide hem-stitched border..in all the latest shades.

motor show n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > motor vehicle > an exhibition of

motor show1898

Motorama1947

1898 Autocar 17 Dec. 807/1 (heading) Liverpool cycle and motor show.

1905 S. A. Barnett Let. 2 Dec. in H. Barnett Canon Barnett (1918) II. 194 We have been to the Motor Show, when vast Olympia was crammed by a fashionable crowd.

1972 Nature 31 Mar. 193/1 It is difficult to believe that international motor shows are instrumental in selling cars.

motor smash n.

ΚΠ

1910 E. M. Forster Howards End x. 83 ‘Evie, dearest girl, why aren't you in Yorkshire?’ ‘No—motor smash—changed plans.’

1947 Public Opinion Q. 340 If Britain were ever to die, it would be of old age, and not from a motor smash—let alone suicide.

motor-spectacles n.

ΚΠ

1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock ii. iii. 262 She disengaged her arms to take off his disfiguring motor-spectacles.

motor-sport n.

ΚΠ

1924 (title) The Brooklands gazette. Organ of motor and motor cycle sport.]

1936 S. Szenasy in H. Stuck & E. G. Burggaller Motoring Sport 22 Motor sport in America is apt to be more of a circus performance..than to be of practical value.

2000 Pract. Classics June 9 I must admit I'm no motorsport fan and know next to nothing about Grand Prix.

motor tour n.

ΚΠ

1896 Belfast News-let. 16 Nov. 6/2 He took the credit to himself for having initiated the motor tour to Brighton.

1909 London Mag. Sept. 18/2 Excursions through the sky..are to become as common as motor-tours.

1990 P. Jackson Britain's Deaf Heritage (BNC) 207 The Headmaster..was on a motor tour of Yorkshire.., and got into severe difficulties at Skipton when his car ran off the road and broke down.

motor track n.

ΚΠ

1903 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 66 670 That exclusive motor track which is now suggested as the feature of the road-building of the future!

1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 1010/2 He was grudgingly allowed to try out his experimental machines [sc. aeroplanes] at Brooklands, then a motor track.

motor trade n.

ΚΠ

1917 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 27 287 Over-standardization in nations would be as cramping and blighting as it would be, say, in the motor trade.

1967 J. Lennon & P. McCartney She's Leaving Home (song, perf. ‘The Beatles’) in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away Waiting to keep the appointment she made Meeting a man from the motor trade.

1998 Viz Aug. 22/3 (advt.) High quality information in the motor trade is like gold dust—once it has been discovered, no-one wants to share it with anybody.

motor traffic n.

ΚΠ

1909 Daily Mail 5 Aug. 5/2 To construct loop roads for fast motor traffic round villages.

1991 Eng. Today Apr. 28/1 Confusion of words... As long as people sustained very serious injuries..a motor traffic accident would still be fatal even if no one died.

motor transport n.

ΚΠ

1901 Morning Leader 18 Dec. 6/4 The War Office has again been testing motor transport vehicles, mostly steamers.

1991 Impact of Sci. on Society (UNESCO) No. 162. 85 Urban sprawl has been possible only because the car and collective motor transport enable people to travel long distances every day.

motor travel n.

ΚΠ

1923 A. E. Housman Let. 18 Aug. (1971) 215 Blazing hot all the time while motor-travel could temper it [sc. the weather].

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Jan. a10 The amount of what the State Department calls ‘open banditry’ has been enough for it to warn tourists of ‘serious danger in motor travel in Sinaloa’.

motor-travelling n.

ΚΠ

1909 Chambers's Jrnl. June 342/2 Putting the accidents on railways and on the roads together, motor-travelling included.

motor trip n.

ΚΠ

1909 E. Wharton Let. 21 July (1988) 188 The Master of Rye..telegraphed me that he wanted to be taken on a little motor trip.

1993 A. L. Hall Deliria (BNC) 42 We pile into the car as if embarking on a real motor trip.

motor trouble n.

ΚΠ

1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 55/1 Cleaver and Latham dropped into the Mediterranean..because of motor trouble.

motor tyre n.

ΚΠ

1907 Nature 14 Feb. 383/1 Chemical composition of some motor-tyre rubbers.

1970 P. Y. Carter Mr. Campion's Falcon vii. 59 Packing-cases, old motor tyres, drums of paint.

motor veil n.

ΚΠ

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 320 d/3 Motor veil. In Crêpe de Chine.

1926 W. de la Mare Connoisseur & Other Stories 70 She was a rare one for the fashions: scarves and motor-veils, and that kind of thing.

b. Instrumental.

motor-aided adj.

ΚΠ

1909 Daily Chron. 17 July 9/6 In comparing Bishop's 513 miles with previous performances humanly assisted, as distinct from motor-aided records, it is only fair to recall that when Cordang did 616 miles on the Crystal Palace track, the pacing instruments were fitted up with canvas wind shields.

motor-assisted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [adjective] > having (specific) mechanical power > assisting manual operation > spec

motor-assisted1953

1953 Power & Pedal Feb. 17/3 You may have to make a distinction between a motor-assisted bicycle and a motor-cycle's younger relation.

1984 Truck & Bus Transportation July 50/3 If the motor-assisted bicycle does not exceed..200 watts..in power then it does not require registration.

motor-driven adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [adjective] > having (specific) mechanical power > specific

motor-driven1895

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > motor > [adjective]

motor-driven1895

petrol-electric1903

1895 Autocar 30 Nov. 57/2 The motor-driven tricycle class is represented only by one machine.

1974 H. R. F. Keating Bats fly Up iii. 31 A powerful motor-driven show.

motor-dusted adj.

ΚΠ

1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane iii. xviii. 236 His eyes were fixed on the white, motor-dusted hedges.

motor-infested adj.

ΚΠ

1909 Q. Rev. Jan. 143 This singularly congested and motor-infested country.

1931 T. H. Pear Voice & Personality 43 Today's world of motor-infested ‘beauty-spots’.

motor-propelled adj.

ΚΠ

1927 E. Hemingway Let. 13 Feb. (2015) III. 202 Hickock and I are demarring in H's motor propelled veehcle [sic] for Rimini and San Marino on or abt. March 20.

1942 Times 9 Oct. 2/2 There are..machines for levelling—motor-propelled scrapers—tractors, dumpers, angle-dozers and bull-dozers.

motor accessory n. an attachment, spare part, etc., for a motor vehicle.

ΚΠ

1919 Sci. Monthly Apr. 302 One firm, which has been manufacturing fuses, is turning over to the manufacture of electric fittings, another to motor accessories.

2000 Leicester Mercury (Electronic ed.) 3 Nov. This is the ideal place to..do some early Christmas shopping, whether you are looking for stylish gold jewellery or practical motor accessories.

motor bandit n. a person who commits a crime using, or in connection with, a motor vehicle.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > who uses a motor car

motor bandit1912

1912 (title of film) The motor bandits.

1993 R. Murphy Smash & Grab iv. 49/2 But such discreet, unobtrusive..forms of burglary attracted less attention than the spectacular exploits of the ‘motor bandits’.

motorboard n. the fixed plate on a record player that bears and distributes the weight of the moving components.

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1922 S. A. Maycock Handbk. Gramophone ix. 54 The conversion of a gramophone from spring to electric motor is quite a simple matter. A hole is made in the motor-board..and..the motor and switch are screwed down.

1987 Gramophone Jan. 1073/3 The main pivot pillar..will already suit some turntable motorboards.

motor camp n. originally U.S. a campsite for tourists, equipped with various amenities (sometimes with cabins for rent) and having space for motor vehicles, caravans, and tents (cf. mocamp n.).

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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > a parking place > area where caravans may be parked > and camping site

auto camp1904

motor camp1925

1925 Sat. Evening Post 10 Oct. 98/1 The average motor camp is too well known to need any description.

1984 Metro (Auckland) Mar. 88/1 The trio had lived at a motorcamp and then at a house in East Coast Bays.

motor cannon n. (a) a piece of artillery on a motor chassis, similar to the later armoured car or self-propelled gun; (b) an aircraft cannon (firing shells) mounted within the hub of a propeller.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > other pieces of ordnance

bombardc1430

ribaudequin1443

stock-gun1465

seven sistersa1529

chamber1540

bastard1545

chamber piece1547

volger1548

dogc1550

battardc1565

long shot1595

quarter piece1625

pelican1639

monkey1650

spirol1653

stock-fowler1669

saltamartino1684

smeriglio1688

botcarda1700

carriage gun1723

Lancaster1857

Armstrong1860

wire gun1860

Columbiad1861

Parrott1861

wedge-gun1876

truck-gun1883

motor cannon1889

Black Maria1914

Jack Johnson1914

supergun1915

flak1938

1889 F. R. Stockton Great War Syndicate 93 She [sc. the vessel] carried one motor-cannon of large size.

1903 Car Illustr. 9 Dec. p. vii./2 What is described as a motor cannon is about to be constructed at Spandau in Germany..a kind of locomotive fort, propelled by a petrol motor and giving shelter to two guns.

1914 Motor Age 26 Mar. 32/2 (heading) French Army Adopts Motor Cannon... The artillery section of the army has been working for a considerable time on the production of a 75-millimeter motor car cannon.

1919 Handbk. Ordnance Data 1918 (U.S. Army) xi. 251 37-mm. motor cannon.—The 37-mm. semiautomatic cannon is mounted in the V of a motor with the barrel extending through the hollow propeller hub.

1939 War Illustr. 9 Dec. 390 It was to a similar type of French engine that the first successful ‘motor-cannon’, or shell gun, firing between the arms of the ‘V’, was fitted.

2013 G. L. Rottman SNAFU 265 The Kanonenboot was armed with three 2cm cannons (one motor cannon and two in under-wing pods..) and two 13mm cowling machine guns.

motor caravan n. (a) a caravan designed to be towed by a motor car; (b) a motor vehicle incorporating the features of a caravan.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation

van1829

house wagon1833

living wagon1851

wagon1851

motor-van1898

motor caravan1909

van1922

trailer caravan1930

trailer1931

caravanette1934

mobile home1934

travel trailer1936

trailer home1940

static caravan1947

recreational vehicle1949

van1952

trailer house1954

caravette1958

camper1960

pickup camper1960

motor home1961

caravan1962

cab-over1964

RV1967

manufactured home1976

micro-mini1989

1909 Daily Chron. 10 June 4/6 The sight-seeing motor-caravans now yellowing the thoroughfares between London's historic sights.

1957 Motor 28 Aug. 97/2 A vehicle known as the Motor Caravan.

1964 Which? Apr. 35/1 A motor caravan is basically an ordinary van that has been fitted with windows, beds and cupboards, a table, cooker and sink.

1990 Internat. H & E Monthly 91 No. 9. 11/1 Caravans are available for hire..and if you've got your own motor caravan you can bring that too.

motor coach n. (a) a single-decker bus; (b) a railway coach equipped with its own motor.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > railway carriage incorporating engine

unit1902

motor coach1923

power car1936

multiple-unit1963

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > motor-driven > single-decker

service car1916

coach1923

motor coach1923

1906 Westm. Gaz. 5 June 5/3 An excursion train on the Great Western line colliding..with an empty rail-motor coach.]

1923 Michelin Guide to Great Brit. (ed. 7) p. ii Some owners of motor coaches.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 559/2 Motor-coach, a passenger coach, equipped with its own motors, for use on electrified railways; it is commonly used in conjunction with trailer coaches to make up a multiple-unit train.

1957 Railway Mag. Mar. 159/2 A cubicle containing the majority of the low-tension control equipment is housed in a van compartment in the motor coach.

1981 J. Gardam Hollow Land viii. 115 Now there's fleets of motor coaches and caravans.

motor-coaster n. (a) a motorized vessel designed for use in coastal waters; (b) a type of roller coaster at a funfair.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > motor-coaster

motor-coaster1928

society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > roller coaster or railway

montagne russe1834

mountain railway1851

switchback1863

rollercoaster1883

scenic railway1890

chute1908

coaster1910

moon rocket1921

motor-coaster1928

giant racer1934

Big Dipper1935

scenic1956

1928 Daily Express 5 Dec. 11/4 It is feared that the London motor-coaster, Wander.., has been lost, with a crew of five.

1974 Amer. Speech 1971 46 84 Fast-moving amusement rides on elevated rails: toboggan, high rides,..shoot the chutes, motor coasters.

1986 Dict. National Biogr. 1971–80 59/1 Operation Bridford..consisted of a flotilla of five motor-coasters.

motor cop n. U.S. colloquial = motorcycle cop n. at motorcycle n. Compounds 2.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > mobile > on motorcycle

motor cop1915

motorcycle policeman1919

motorcycle cop1927

motorcycle officer1935

1915 Policeman's Monthly Oct. 14/1 The motor cops were brought in on the ‘carpet’.

1949 W. R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle 197 None of them saw..the..motor cop behind him.

motor court n. U.S. a motel.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel

hotel1687

hotel garni1744

lodgea1817

gasthof1832

temperance house1833

temperance hotel1837

railway hotel1839

palace hotel1844

parador1845

caravanserai1848

resort hotel1886

metropole1890

Ritz1900

trust house1902

apartment hotel1909

welfare hotel1915

motel1925

motor hotel1925

auto court1926

motor court1936

motor lodge1936

residential1940

botel1956

floatel1959

apartotel1965

motor inn1967

1936 Pop. Mech. Nov. 674/1 The motor court is a recent development of the motor age. It's not a tourist park, it's not an auto camp... It's a collection of miniature homes clustered around a central service and administration building.

1989 Holiday Which? Jan. 59/1 Cheapest of all are likely to be motels or motor courts on the outskirts of town: plain rooms, or separate cabins, with shower and TV.

motor-drive n. (a) a drive or journey in a motor car; (b) a mechanism for transmitting motive power provided by a motor, spec. one in a camera for moving on the film.

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the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > capacity for exertion of mechanical force > motive power or force > driving machinery by

motor-drive1906

power drive1909

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > a ride in a vehicle > in a motor car

car drive1871

car ride1902

motor-drive1906

1906 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) II. 221 The details of the motor-drive are quite plausible.

1936 Discovery Apr. 113/2 The compressor, or vacuum pump, has an independent motor drive.

1971 Amateur Photographer 13 Jan. 51/1 The exposure system is powered by the motor drive batteries but a bridge circuit makes it independent of their precise voltage as they run down.

1988 Pract. Photogr. Sept. 55/1 Integral motor-drives are generally of a very high standard.

motor driver n. (a) a driver of a motor vehicle; (b) = motor-drive n. (b).

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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle

automobilist1896

motorist1896

autoist1899

chauffeur1899

motor-carist1899

motor driver1902

jockey1912

drive1999

1902 Pall Mall Mag. 28 410/1 Should motor drivers be subject to an examination as to proficiency?

1968 J. H. Burn Lect. Notes Pharmacol. (ed. 9) 7 It is good for a motor-driver driving through the night.

1990 Mech. Engin. June 32/3 Four-axis motion controller... Up to four motor-drivers are completely contained in..a..rack or desktop enclosure.

1992 RS Components: Electronic & Electr. Products July 805/3 A high speed bipolar buffer amplifier designed to provide 1 amp at high frequencies... Applications include video amps, motor drivers, pulse transformer drivers, op-amp boosters and the like.

motordrome n. a motor racing track.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > course or track

autodrome1901

motordrome1908

speedway1925

strip1941

bullring1970

1908 Westm. Gaz. 4 Aug. 4/3 Mr. Locke-King has spent a large fortune in building this wonderful motordrome.

1993 Speedway Star 13 Feb. 22/1 Still with bruised ribs following his massive crash in the NSW speedway title at Newcastle Motordrome several weeks earlier, he won..an easy victory.

motor gasoline n. Oil Industry the petroleum fuel for the internal combustion engine; motor spirit; abbreviated MOGAS.

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1919 E. W. Dean (U.S. Bureau Mines Techn. Paper No. 214) (title) Motor gasoline properties.

1949 Our Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) (ed. 2) 330 (Glossary) Gasoline..is the normal term in the U.S.A. to denote motor spirit (motor gasoline or just ‘gas’)... In the U.K. ‘gasoline’ sometimes denotes a petroleum spirit of lower distillation range than motor spirit.

1999 Daily Nation (Nairobi) 19 Nov. (Your Weekender Mag. section) 9/2 (advt.) In the reseller sector, Shell is number one in the distribution of motor gasoline, lubricants and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

motor generator n. an apparatus consisting of an electric motor and a generator with their armature shafts mechanically coupled, which may be used to control the voltage, frequency, or number of phases of a supply.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > generator > [noun]

rheomotor1843

generator1879

magneto-generator1883

motor generator1887

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > motor > [noun] > generator

motor generator1887

1887 Electrician 2 Dec. 74/1 We are enabled to reproduce photographs and sectional drawings of the Paris and Scott motor generator which recently underwent some tests at the Newcastle Exhibition.

1930 Engineering 28 Feb. 278/2 The electrical load is consequently divided between the steam-driven sets and motor-generator sets in accordance with the demand for heating steam.

1986 H. I. Andrews Railway Traction iv. 84 These performance figures would equally represent the performance of a gas turbine or similar locomotive having motor-generator transmission.

motor glider n. a glider equipped with an engine, primarily to make it self-launching; used esp. in training glider pilots (cf. sailplane n.).

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > glider > [noun] > having an engine

motor glider1923

1923 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 27 531 One of the things that instantly occurred to most people..was that the motor glider heralded the dawn of a new era in commercial aeronautics.

1990 Pilot Oct. 8/3 I've got an endorsement on my licence which says that I can fly Self-Launching Motor Gliders.

motor home n. originally and chiefly North American a very large vehicle equipped as a self-contained home (cf. mobile home n.).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > caravan

cart-house1603

caravan1805

house wagon1833

wagon1851

house trailer1885

caboose1912

mobile home1934

travel trailer1936

trailer home1940

static caravan1947

Dormobile1952

caravette1953

trailer house1954

motor home1961

double-wide1966

static1980

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation

van1829

house wagon1833

living wagon1851

wagon1851

motor-van1898

motor caravan1909

van1922

trailer caravan1930

trailer1931

caravanette1934

mobile home1934

travel trailer1936

trailer home1940

static caravan1947

recreational vehicle1949

van1952

trailer house1954

caravette1958

camper1960

pickup camper1960

motor home1961

caravan1962

cab-over1964

RV1967

manufactured home1976

micro-mini1989

1961 Chicago Sunday Tribune 19 Feb. i. 3/4 Two young girls are undergoing a unique experience at the Chicago Automobile show... They are living in a ‘motor home’ which is part of the Dodge exhibit. Unlike a trailer, this ‘motor home’ is mounted on a Dodge truck chassis... It sleeps up to eight persons.

1993 Guardian 24 July (Weekend Suppl.) 40/2 Even with a weakening franc, you should find a wide choice among gîtes and motorhomes.

2008 Indianapolis Star 11 Jan. (State ed.) d3/1 (advt.) You'll find hundreds of new motor homes, travel trailers, fifth wheels and fold downs from the industry's top manufacturers.

motor hotel n. a hotel designed particularly for use by motorists; a motel.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel

hotel1687

hotel garni1744

lodgea1817

gasthof1832

temperance house1833

temperance hotel1837

railway hotel1839

palace hotel1844

parador1845

caravanserai1848

resort hotel1886

metropole1890

Ritz1900

trust house1902

apartment hotel1909

welfare hotel1915

motel1925

motor hotel1925

auto court1926

motor court1936

motor lodge1936

residential1940

botel1956

floatel1959

apartotel1965

motor inn1967

1925 Hotel Monthly Mar. 37/2 The Milestone Interstate Corporation..proposes to build and operate a chain of motor hotels between San Diego and Seattle, the hotels to have the name ‘Motel’.

1965 Punch 1 Dec. 798 They call themselves motor lodges, motor courts, motor hotels, even tourtels and autotels, but motel is the word that blisters the night sky of the American suburbs.

1991 M. Gray First Fifty (BNC) 92 The chances of seeing wildlife on a wildlife trail are about as good as seeing Frank Sinatra play a gig at The Milton Motor Hotel in Fort William.

motor house n. now historical a garage.

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1902 D. Salomons in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) vi. 84 A well-built motor-house should cost nothing in the up~keep.

1995 R. Fellows Edwardian Archit. iv. 82/1 To one side there would be a courtyard..with..stables, generator room and motor house grouped around it.

motor inn n. = motor hotel n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel

hotel1687

hotel garni1744

lodgea1817

gasthof1832

temperance house1833

temperance hotel1837

railway hotel1839

palace hotel1844

parador1845

caravanserai1848

resort hotel1886

metropole1890

Ritz1900

trust house1902

apartment hotel1909

welfare hotel1915

motel1925

motor hotel1925

auto court1926

motor court1936

motor lodge1936

residential1940

botel1956

floatel1959

apartotel1965

motor inn1967

1967 Time 21 Apr. 25 46 restaurants and six motor inns.

1988 J. Hersey in Paris Rev. Summer 113 Surveillance of Mildred Deming reported that at 23.15 p.m...subject Bradford had checked in along with subject Deming at Moontop Motor Inn.

motor lodge n. a motel.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel

hotel1687

hotel garni1744

lodgea1817

gasthof1832

temperance house1833

temperance hotel1837

railway hotel1839

palace hotel1844

parador1845

caravanserai1848

resort hotel1886

metropole1890

Ritz1900

trust house1902

apartment hotel1909

welfare hotel1915

motel1925

motor hotel1925

auto court1926

motor court1936

motor lodge1936

residential1940

botel1956

floatel1959

apartotel1965

motor inn1967

1936 Pop. Mech. 66 120a/2 Make a trip and try living in a motor lodge—you'll be as comfortable and find it almost as cheap as staying at home!

1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl i. xv. 247 The motor lodge was called Romanz and was set among pine trees on a rise beside the autobahn.

motor-mad adj. exhibiting enthusiasm or desire for motor cars.

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1906 (title of film) Motor mad.

1922 W. J. Locke Tale of Triona xxvi. 292 England ran motor-mad that summer.

motor-mate n. now rare a person who attends to the motor of an airship.

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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > crew of aircraft or spacecraft > member of crew > with specific duties

navigator1784

motor-mate1928

flight engineer1938

loadmaster1961

nav1961

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xxii. 411 One of the motor-mates of the amidships gondola raised the black curtain.

motor octane number n. Oil Industry an octane number as determined by the motor method of the American Society for Testing and Materials, used chiefly for high engine speeds and loads; abbreviated MON.

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1952 ASTM Man. Engine Test Methods for rating Fuels 7/2 The Motor octane number of a fuel is determined by comparing its knocking tendency with those for blends of the reference fuels of known octane number at 900 rpm.

1967 Statistician 17 151 Two methods which are much employed are the research octane number (RON) and the motor octane number (MON).

1979 Chem. Week (Nexis) 28 Mar. 42 The product is a branched material with good octane... It is not ‘sensitive’; its more-demanding motor octane number is quite close to its research octane number.

2002 Hydrocarbon Processing (Nexis) 1 Nov. 86 Alkylate has ideal gasoline properties such as: high research and motor octane numbers, low Reid vapor pressure (Rvp), and no aromatics, olefins or sulfur.

motor-paced adj. Cycling of, relating to, or designating a race in which a pacemaking motorcycle is used to provide a slipstream for the cyclist.

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1909 Daily Chron. 31 July 6/6 The smash at Berlin on the occasion of an hour's race between motor-paced cyclists resulted in the death of six spectators and the injury of a very large number of others.

1985 F. Westell & K. Evans Cycle Racing 68/2 Motor-paced racing..is a code apart.

motor park n.

Brit.

/ˈməʊtə pɑːk/

U.S.

/ˈmoʊdər ˌpɑrk/

West African English

/ˈmoto ˌpak/

(a) a car park (now chiefly West African); (b) U.S. a motel, a motor camp (now rare).

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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > a parking place > a car-park

park1916

motor park1925

car park1926

parkade1937

1925 Times 14 Apr. 8/5 The Automobile Association..has put forward a scheme for the construction of motor parks below ground.

1939 New Yorker 14 Oct. 72 The usual phrase for cabin colonies in California is ‘auto court’; ‘motor park’, perhaps copied from ‘trail park’.

1972 C. Achebe Girls at War 60 Everybody, even a motor-park tout, knows what school fees are for.

motor pool n. (a) originally U.S. Military, an area where motor vehicles are parked, repaired, and made available for use; (b) a fleet of cars, held by a particular organization or body, from which a vehicle or vehicles can be selected as required.

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1943 R. Ingersoll Battle is Pay-off i. iv. 36 There were no vehicles parked, no motor pool, no messengers coming and going.

1973 A. Mann Tiara x. 91 Four or five are in the motor pool for the use of Vatican people on official journeys.

1998 R. Ray Certain Age 151 They weren't from the motor pool in town. They were proper Kwik-Fit stickers.

motor rally n. = rally n.³

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1932 Radio Times 29 July 267/1 Some of the big motoring events of the year—the Ulster Motor Rally, [etc.].

2000 Northern Echo (Electronic ed.) 14 Feb. Many will ask whether it was an accident waiting to happen given the proximity of spectators to the action at motor rallies.

motor rallying n. the sport of competing in motor rallies.

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1957 Times 26 Feb. 5/7 Motor rallying is one of the more accessible forms of adventure for ordinary people.

1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying 9 The facts demonstrate that motor rallying is one of Britain's fastest-growing and biggest participant sports.

1998 Daily Mail (Electronic ed.) 10 June Two years ago, best-selling romantic novelist Rosie Thomas..embarked on an energetic round of scuba diving, heli-skiing and motor rallying.

motor-sailer n. a boat equipped with both sails and an engine.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > with sails

motor-sailer1934

1934 Yachting Jan. 39 A consideration of the motor-sailer.

1971 J. R. L. Anderson Reckoning in Ice vi. 111 His boat was what is called a motor-sailer, which generally means..more engine than sail.

1990 Small Boat Jrnl. Jan. 21/2 To some, the Nimble 25 may look like an ocean-crossing motorsailer. It's not. It is a coastal sailboat with enclosed steering.

motor-school n. a driving school.

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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > driving school

driving school1901

motor-school1909

1909 Chambers's Jrnl. June 342/1 The..gentleman..is now getting his country grooms trained at a motor-school.

1989 E. Chisnall Bell in Tree (BNC) 125 Oh God! A Motor-School Car. It's full of drivers learning no' tae stop.

motor spirit n. fuel for a motor vehicle, petrol.

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1908 Westm. Gaz. 23 July 4/2 The Anglo-American Oil Company announce that they have been honoured by a warrant of appointment as purveyors of motor-spirit to his Majesty the King.

1973 Times 17 Nov. 1/2 Britain's leading motor spirit suppliers are introducing their own controls on retail petrol sales.

2000 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Electronic ed.) 2 Oct. It is also pertinent to remember that diesel enjoys a marginal tax (0.9c per litre) against motor spirit (which is 48.1c per litre).

motor-traction n. the operation of a vehicle by means of a motor.

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1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 532 The Triumph of Motor-Traction.

motor-van n. (a) a motor-driven van (see van n.³ 1a); (b) = motor home n. (see van n.³ 4a).

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1898 Daily News 2 Apr. 2/6 The Post Office and Motor Vans.—A motor van service for the conveyance of the mails.

1927 Daily Tel. 10 May 6 Fatally injured by being knocked down by a motor-van of the Flying Squad.

1977 Age (Melbourne) 18 Jan. (Advts. Suppl.) Choose a motorvan, motel or Fly/Drive Ansett Airlines holiday.

1990 A. Maidment I remember, I Remember (BNC) 112 The shed..was in reality the body from an old motor-van, for on the sides..was the legend..Mineral Water Manufacturers.

motor vehicle n. a road vehicle powered by an engine (usually an internal combustion engine).

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun]

buggy1888

motor vehicle1890

motor carriage1894

autocar1895

jam jar1895

motor car1895

car1896

traction1896

motor1899

bubble1901

machine1901

Lizzie1913

buzz-wagon1914

road car1914

short1914

scooter1917

buzz-box1920

ride1930

drag1935

bus1939

wagon1955

wheels1959

sheen1968

low rider1974

scoot1977

1890 J. W. Quinn U.S. Patent 431,993 I..have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Motor-Vehicles.

1937 Discovery July 194/2 The noise from motor vehicles.

1994 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Aug. d8/1 Motor-vehicle exhaust causes substantially more pollution than cigarettes.

motor-voter n. U.S. attributive designating any of various laws proposed or introduced to increase the numbers of citizens registering to vote by allowing them to register while applying for a driving licence, esp. the National Voter Registration Act of May 1993, which provided for this among other extensions to registration facilities.

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1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 14 June v. 3/2 In California, Assemblyman Tom Bates..has introduced a bill providing for DMV to provide postcard registration forms to all driver's license applicants. (But Gov. George Deukmejian vetoed a similar ‘motor voter’ bill last year.)

1993 Rolling Stone 8 July 18/1 Otherwise known as the motor-voter bill, the act [sc. the National Voter Registration Act] will enable citizens to register to vote while getting driver's licenses, while enlisting in the armed services or by mail.

2000 Nation 4 Dec. 8/1 The easing of restrictions on registration (judicial enforcement of the ‘motor-voter’ law).

motor-wind n. Photography a facility on a camera for automatically winding and rewinding a film.

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1979 Wall St. Jrnl. (Nexis) 31 Jan. 24/5 The new Pentax System 10..features interchangeable lenses, lens filters and a motor wind—which permits the photographer to take a rapid sequence of pictures.

2000 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) (Nexis) 25 June 1 e The joke is that pretty soon we'll have a one-time-use camera that has motor-wind, automatic zoom, red-eye reduction and everything else.

C2. Compounds of the adjective (chiefly in sense B. 1).

motor area n. any region of the central nervous system involved in the control of movement; esp. the motor cortex.

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1876 Philos. Trans. 1875 (Royal Soc.) 165 441 Destruction of motor areas—regions of the fissure of Rolando.

1897 B. Stoker Dracula xxi. 283 The whole motor area seems affected. The suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late.

1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 286 The rest of the [spinal] cord, however, and in particular the motor areas and motor roots, show no increase in size, showing that the number of muscle-fibres to be supplied does not stimulate the growth of the supplying cells.

1993 New Scientist 7 Aug. 38/1 In the monkey, the planning phase—when the brain calculates the direction the arm must move to reach the banana—seems to take place in parts of the cortex known as the supplementary motor area and the premotor cortex.

motor cell n. (a) Physiology a motor neuron; (b) Botany any of several types of cell involved in plant movements, usually distinguished by the ability to undergo rapid changes in turgor and by relatively elastic walls.

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1878 Proc. Royal Soc. 27 44 The ‘giant pyramids’, in their form and distribution, have the significance of motor cells.

1897 Bot. Gaz. 23 362 The folding of the walls of the motor cells of roots is doubtless due to the great resistance to their expansion offered by the peripheral layers.

1935 Science 30 Aug. 200/1 One would have to think that there are degrees of motor cell susceptibility [to poliomyelitis virus] depending upon location and involvement.

1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) i. 8 (caption) Below is seen the prominent mid-rib (keel) which is flanked on either side above by a row of motor cells.

1993 New Scientist 10 July 14/2 When their motor cells suddenly lose salts, water is drawn out by osmosis. (This) causes the motor cells to collapse and the leaf bends.

1996 O. Sacks Island of Colour-blind ii. 186 Spencer succeeded, after eight weeks, in inducing ‘a degenerative motor system disease’ associated with damage to the motor cells in the cerebral cortex and spinal cord.

motor cortex n. the region of the cerebral cortex that controls movements of the skeletal musculature.

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molecular layer1867

motor cortex1880

Wernicke's area1887

operculum1889

map1945

1880 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 171 56 Let us summarise for comparison the limits of the richly-developed motor cortex in each animal under consideration.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 61 The motor cortex might be sensitive as well as motor.

1942 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 135 736 Phenomenologically, the muscular reactions during a tonic-clonic response to electrical stimulation of the motor cortex have for a long time been recognized as analogous to those in Jacksonian or in grand-mal epilepsy.

1987 S. M. Stahl et al. Competitive Neurochem. vii. 99 Neurons in the caudal portion of the principal sulcus..are only one synapse removed from primary motor cortex.

motor nerve n. an efferent nerve that innervates a muscle or other effector.

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1823 C. Bell in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 113 300 The seventh is the auditory nerve, and the division of it, called portio dura, is the motor nerve of the face and eyelids.

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 372/1 Those [sc. ganglia] which have connected with them both motor and sentient nerves.

1898 Mind 7 165 Nervous impulses pass..by a reflex path, to the motor nerves of the muscles that jerk my head away.

1933 Psychol. Abstr. 7 538/1 The relationship between stimulus intensity and duration in the motor nerve of the frog.

1994 N.Y. Times 11 Jan. c13/4 Scientists proposed that the structures jointly secrete a powerful information molecule able to tell surrounding cells whether they are destined to become part of the hind brain, the forebrain, motor nerves or other constituents of the nervous system.

motor neuron n. a neuron of the central nervous system that (directly or indirectly) innervates a muscle or other effector; esp. (more fully somatic motor neuron) one that directly innervates a muscle.

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nerve vesicle1839

brain cell1848

stellate cell1870

Purkinje cell1872

neuroblast1878

touch cell1878

Golgi('s) cell1892

memory cell1892

astrocyte1896

astroblast1897

motor neuron1897

cytochrome1898

stichochrome1899

monaxon1900

basket cell1901

relay neuron1903

internuncial neuron1906

sheath cell1906

motoneuron1908

adjustor1909

satellite1912

microglia1924

oligodendroglia1924

sympathicoblast1927

pituicyte1930

oligodendrocyte1932

sympathoblast1934

sympathogonia1934

interneuron1938

Renshaw cell1954

1897 C. S. Sherrington in Proc. Royal Soc. 61 221 The question of the independent excitability of the motor neuron.

1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind iii. 69 Always beginning with a sensory neurone and ending with a motor neurone, this apparatus is called a reflex-arc.

1949 Science 22 July 97/2 Myotactic reflexes..are considered to be effected by the incoming afferent impulses exciting the somatic motor neurons directly without the intervention of interneurons.

1994 Time 28 Mar. 55/1 Dr. Halstead, who uses a motorized scooter instead of walking long distances, calls this ‘babying the motor neurons’.

motor neuron disease n. any of several, often hereditary, diseases characterized by degeneration of motor neurons and progressive weakness and atrophy of muscles; abbreviated MND.

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1933 W. R. Brain Dis. Nerv. Syst. ix. 497 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Synonyms: Progressive muscular atrophy; progressive bulbar palsy; motor neurone disease; chronic poliomyelitis.

1958 J. G. Greenfield et al. Neuropathol. ix. 545 The name amyotrophic lateral sclerosis..is more correct than the suggested alternative motor neurone disease, since degeneration is not confined to motor neurones.

1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxxiv. 53/2 Motor neurone disease may present with any combination of upper and lower motor neurone signs.

1990 Brain 113 305 We..studied a large series of cases with motor neuron disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; ALS) in which degeneration of the corticospinal tracts is particularly well seen.

1996 Pract. Gardening June 27/1 Jimmy suffered from motor neurone disease (MND), a progressive illness which eventually rendered him immobile.

motor point n. Physiology and Medicine (a) a point in the motor cortex which, when stimulated electrically, produces the contraction of a specific voluntary muscle or group of muscles (now rare); (b) the point at which a motor nerve enters a muscle, over which an electric current applied to the skin will stimulate the muscle to contract.

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1881 Science 2 175/1 I found the largest group of the largest cells in a place not yet indicated on any of the charts of the localizationists as an unquestionable motor point.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 171/2 Motor point, point at which a motor nerve enters a muscle, and over which an electrode is to be placed to effect contraction.

1931 Science 73 214/1 Through the investigations of Graham Brown and Sherrington it is known that cortical motor points do not yield fixed reactions.

1993 Men's Health July 65/1 To relieve pain, [acupuncture] needles are inserted into ‘motor points’, spots in the body where nerve enters muscle.

2001 Internal Med. 40 376 Motor point biopsies were performed from the biceps brachii muscles.

motor protein n. Biochemistry a protein (usually an ATPase) that is involved in cell motility, typically by moving along a microfilament or other substrate.

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1987 Ann. Rev. Cell Biol. 3 368 [The retrograde motor] may reach the terminal simply by diffusion, which is consistent with the seemingly large quantities of soluble motor proteins found in the axon.

1996 New Scientist 14 Sept. 44/2 Each microtubule is made up of tubulin molecules, stacked into rods which are joined together by dynein motor proteins and nexin linker proteins.

1997 Nature 2 Jan. 18 (heading) Mechanochemistry. A protein-making motor protein.

motor region n. = motor area n.

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1874 Proc. Royal Soc. 1873–4 22 231 The whole brain is regarded as divided into sensory and motor regions.

1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. iv. 4 This [parietal lobule] also forms part of the motor region.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xvi. 576 A horizontal groove, the sulcus limitans, running along the inner surface of the brain stem on either side, separates a dorsal sensory region from a ventral motor region.

motor root n. the ventral root of a spinal nerve, containing axons of motor neurons; (also) any of several branches of cranial nerves consisting of motor fibres.

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the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > parts of nerves > [noun] > root

motor root1829

nerve root1853

1829 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 119 325 The connection between the motor root and the superior maxillary nerve proved to be only by cellular texture.

1840 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum viii. 387 There are thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves, each arising by two roots, an anterior or motor root, and a posterior or sensitive root.

1898 B. P. Colton Physiol. iii. 40 The dorsal root is often called the Sensory root, and the ventral the Motor root.

1973 Gray's Anat. (ed. 35) 1002/2 The motor nucleus of the trigeminal nerve gives rise to the fibres of the motor root.

motor theory n. Psychology any of various psychological theories that state that muscular movements or other motor elements of the nervous system are necessary for perception, learning, memory, etc.; used esp. with reference to theories that maintain that the movements of articulation and the sensory feedback from these are essential for speech perception.

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1888 Mind 13 520 This is no more explicable by the sensory than the motor theory.

1896 Mind 5 102 He employs the motor theory of attention very ingeniously to explain simple assimilation or recognition.

1903 Psychol. Rev. 10 49 The study of the bearing of such phenomena as I have described on the motor theory of such [spatial] perceptions.

1926 Psychol. Rev. 33 411 In this paper I propose to examine the motor theory of the ‘speech reactions’ of behaviorism from the standpoint of the disturbances of speech behavior in what is known as aphasia.

1996 Jrnl. Personality & Social Psychol. 71 874 Four multimethod studies probed the hypothesis, derived from the Zajonc-Markus motor theory of emotion, that facial recognition is enhanced by imitation of the faces.

motor unit n. †(a) a neuron of the motor cortex (obsolete); (b) a single motor neuron and the muscle fibres which it innervates.

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motor unit1890

1890 W. B. Lewis Text-bk. Mental Dis. i. 68 The above statements will indicate the wealth of communicating branches which these ‘motor units’ possess.

1925 E. G. T. Liddell & C. S. Sherrington in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 97 511 Styling as ‘motor-unit’ the motoneurone-axon and its adjunct muscle-fibres.

1970 J. G. Chusid Correlative Neuroanat. & Functional Neurol. (ed. 14) ii. 76/2 The motor unit is made up of the anterior horn cell of the spinal cord and the muscle group it innervates.

1993 Dance Connection Summer 57/2 The exercises cause the muscles involved to lengthen as they work. This is called eccentric muscle work. Eccentric muscle work requires full firing of all the motor units within the muscle.

motor zone n. = motor area n.

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1880 Mind 5 255 Large protions [of cortical substance] were removed, first in the so-called motor-zones, then in the posterior lobes.

1983 Clin. Neuropathol. 2 128 Electron microscopic examination revealed reoviruses in the glia cells of the damaged motor zone.

1993 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 328 145 In the caudal rhombencephalon, NAi [= noradrenaline-immunoreactive] neurons are located in the transition region between the ventromedial motor zone and the dorsolateral sensory zone.

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单词	motor
释义	motorn.adj. Brit. /ˈməʊtə/, U.S. /ˈmoʊdər/ Forms: late Middle English motour, 1500s– motor, 1600s moter. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mōtor. Etymology: < classical Latin mōtor person who moves or shakes (something), in post-classical Latin also in sense ‘person who (or thing which) moves or causes to move’ (from 13th cent. in British sources) < mōt- , past participial stem of movēre move v. + -or -or suffix.Sense A. 1a is after post-classical Latin primus motor (see primus motor n.). Compare Middle French, French moteur in senses: that which causes movement (1377 in phrase premier moteur ; compare sense A. 1a); that which directs, causes action (1377 in phrase principal moteur ; compare sense A. 1a), machine which uses a source of energy to produce movement (1744; compare sense A. 5a), (plural) nerves which control the movement of the eyes (1771, more fully nerfs moteurs ; compare sense A. 4b); also as adjective: giving movement (1588; 1771 in phrase muscle moteur muscle which moves part of the body; compare sense A. 4b). Compare also Italian motore (1304–8 in sense ‘that which moves celestial objects’; 1519 in Leonardo da Vinci in sense ‘cause, motive’; 1869 in sense ‘mechanism capable of transforming mechanical energy into another form of energy’; 1304–8 as adjective in sense ‘causing movement’), Spanish motor (17th cent.), Portuguese motor (17th cent. as noun and adjective). A. n. 1. A person who or thing which imparts motion. In full first (also prime) motor. a. God as creator of the world and prime mover of celestial objects. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > in philosophy moverc1385 motor1447 First Causer1526 union1565 monad1642 monas1768 over-soul1841 ens realissimum1847 socius1890 ens necessarium1900 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 6526 (MED) Vndyrstonde þat oon yet myhtyere is Than al þem, of alle þe creatour, Vnmeuable & of alle oþir þe motour. 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum 855 God..which is not onely the first beginning as Motor, but as the forme and end, and last act. 1600 E. Wilkinson Thameseidos iii. 544 And thankt the motor of the whirling Spheres, That had not them forgot drowned in teares. 1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 26 From God, that is the true Prime Moter. 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. iii. iii. 51 Al our movements or motions are from God as the prime Motor... Is he not then the first Cause and Motor of al our motions? Doth not Aristotle..strongly demonstrate, That al our natural motions must arise from one first immobile Motor? 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xix. 498 God exists, for it is the necessary principle and end of everything, the first motor. †b. In the medieval version of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy: the outermost of the concentric spheres (sphere n. 2a) supposed to revolve round the earth; = primum mobile n. 1. Obsolete.See also earlier mobile n.¹ 1, first movable n. at movable n. 2, mover n.¹ 1b, first-moving n. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > primum mobile first firmamentc1386 first movablec1400 first-movingc1400 first mobilea1475 primum mobilea1475 first movera1550 primovant1570 motor1586 primovable1625 highest movable1669 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. 197 f. 37^v How the Heauens and Planets make their neuer ceasing course, Vnder their Motor first and great, from whence they had their source. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. vi. 136 The earth is not mooved, by reason of her heavinesse,..being far from this first motor [Sp. primer mobil]. †c. The initiator of something; esp. the instigator of a plot or leader of a political organization, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates > first or chief moverc1385 motor1600 prime mover1633 actuator1652 apostle1810 prophet1842 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 187 One of the first moters [It. principali motori] of this popular humour which made him king. a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 93 Bagnall that was prime motor in the counties of Katarlagh and Kilkeny. a1665 G. Wilde Loves Hospitall (1973) iv. vi. 89 Y^r fathers minde Was y^e revealed cause; but y^e first motor The very swada of't was thy selfe Facetia. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1711) I. xxii. 149 The Fruits of publick Commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first Motor. †d. A machine or mechanical agency which imparts motion; = first mover at mover n.¹ 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > part of > which sets other parts moving motion1605 motor1656 messenger1929 servo motor1932 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 41 Whose prime moter or spring..being set true,..the outward wheeles, motions and indications cannot go amisse. 1849 Sci. Amer. 11 Aug. 369/3 They [sc. Pitcher's regulators] answer for all prime motors, water wheels, engines, etc. 1890 Cent. Dict. Power-house,..a building especially provided to contain the prime motor or motors from which power is conveyed to the driven machinery. 1921 Conquest Oct. 510/2 It appears to have solved the problem generally of how gradually and smoothly to take up and transmit the power of a prime mover or motor. 2. figurative. A source of power, energy, etc.; a driving force. ΚΠ 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. G Thine eyes the motors to command my world. 1641 J. Gauden Love of Truth 22 Love is the weight and motor of the soule. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 163 The amassing of property has run out of all figures. It makes the motor of the last ninety years. 1892 K. Pearson Gram. of Sci. ix. 435 The chief motor of modern life with all its really great achievements has been sought..in the individualistic instinct. 1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality xii. 309 Hypophysic hormones are the ‘motor’ of the sexual functions. 1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Feb. 14/1 Dynastic loyalties were the motor of war and peace. 3. gen. Any agent or force acting on a body to produce motion. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > capacity for exertion of mechanical force > motive power or force motor1644 principle1645 motive power1880 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. x. 426 In heauy thinges, their easy following..an other way then downewardes, testifyeth that their motion downewardes hath an extrinsecall motor. 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. vi. 72 Convolvula's do not wind by any peculiar nature..but because their parts are disposed so, as to render them sequaceous to the external Motor. 1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion Suppl. 147 The heavier part of the Stople broke off from the other..and was carry'd from it by invisible motors to a great distance. 1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 405/1 The true motor of the system would..be the weight of the atmosphere. 1971 J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xxvi. 366 The heat production from decay of the radio-active elements in the mantle provides the motor [for continental drift]. 4. Anatomy. †a. A motor nerve. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [noun] sensitive?a1425 motivec1475 life stringc1522 recurrent1615 life corda1631 abducent1681 cord1774 chord1783 motor1824 afferent1828 excitor1836 nerve trunk1850 mixed nerve1861 inhibitory nerve1870 nervelet1875 vaso-motor1887 pilomotor1892 lemniscus1913 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 760/1 The oculorum motores, so called because they are distributed to the muscles of the eye. 1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I. at Nerves These muscles being the principle instruments in the motions of the eye-lid and eye-ball, this nerve has therefore got the name of motor oculi.] 1824 C. Bell Nerves 33 We cannot forget that this nerve is entirely devoted to the muscles of the tongue; that it is the motor of the tongue. 1840 J. Elliotson Human Physiol. 323 Three [nerves] conveying volition to the muscles of the eyes, the common motors [etc.]. b. A muscle that moves a part of the body. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [noun] sphincter1578 raiser1588 in-muscle?1609 oblique1612 abducens1615 abductor1615 adductor1615 antagonist1615 bender1615 depressor1615 extender1615 flexor1615 levator1615 quadratus1615 rectus1615 retractor1615 sphincter-muscle1615 accelerator1638 bicepsa1641 elevator1646 adducent1649 lifter1649 rotator1657 flector1666 contractor1682 dilater1683 orbicularis palpebrarum1694 transverse muscle1696 tensor muscle1704 biventer1706 extensor1713 attollent1728 constrictor1741 dilator1741 risibles1785 orbicularis oculi1797 obliquus1799 erector1828 extensor-muscle1830 compressor1836 trans-muscle1836 antagonizer1844 motor1846 evertor1848 inflector1851 protractor1853 prime mover1860 orbicular1872 transversalis1872 invertor1875 skeletal muscle1877 dilatator1878 occlusor muscle1878 sphincter1879 pilomotor1892 agonist1896 1808 J. Barclay Muscular Motions 300 In every motion..there must always be a number of muscles employed, some as motors, some as directors, some as moderators.] 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Motor..(Anat.) a moving muscle. 1985 Jrnl. Hand Surg. 10A 890 The brachioradialis and pronator teres were the most frequently used motors for the opponensplasty and flexor tendon transfer. 1997 Jrnl. Biomechanics 30 659 The displacements, forces, stresses, and work per volume in the finger motors in some common piano playing movements are calculated. 5. a. A machine that supplies motive power for a vehicle or other device with moving parts; (in later use) esp. one powered by electricity, internal combustion, or compressed air. Cf. engine n. 9. N.E.D. (1908) notes ‘in recent use also in a narrower sense excluding steam engines.’electric, gas-, induction, jet, linear, reactor, repulsion, rocket motor, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun] motor1853 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > motor > [noun] motor1853 electromotor1885 1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Jan. 102/1 The invention of new motors has always been a source of fruitful inquiry. 1877 Galaxy Dec. 845/2 He uses a Gramme electrical machine driven by Brayton's petroleum motor. 1885 Law Times Rep. 51 583/1 The tram-road upon which the steam motor was being driven. 1892 Electr. Engineer 16 Sept. 284/2 There is little difficulty in designing a cart to be driven by a motor, the motor also being able to be used for other purposes, such as winding a drum. 1900 Engineer 2 Feb. 127/3 The main applications of the De Laval steam turbine are:—(1) Turbine motors, driving machinery direct by means of belts or ropes; (2) Turbine dynamos, [etc.]. 1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan i. 5 The vehicle..stood at the curb with the motor running as though waiting for a fare. 1949 A. C. Walshaw Heat Engines (ed. 3) xv. 318 There are many types of air motors fitted to the tools and mechanisms which use compressed air. 1980 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 115/2 The largest turbine then known, it helped to win Fourneyron a prize of 6,000 francs for the satisfactory application of water motors to large-scale industry. 1992 Harrowsmith Aug. 22/3 He tried to commit suicide in a car by leaving its motor running inside a garage. 2000 Independent 21 Nov. i. 9/2 The grants are also available for the new hybrid cars that run on both internal combustion engines and electric motors. b. = motor car n. Also (occasionally): a motorcycle. Formerly also: †a motor carriage or motor tricycle (obsolete). Now chiefly colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] buggy1888 motor vehicle1890 motor carriage1894 autocar1895 jam jar1895 motor car1895 car1896 traction1896 motor1899 bubble1901 machine1901 Lizzie1913 buzz-wagon1914 road car1914 short1914 scooter1917 buzz-box1920 ride1930 drag1935 bus1939 wagon1955 wheels1959 sheen1968 low rider1974 scoot1977 1899 Autocar 4 Nov. 979/1 (heading) My early experiences of a motor—including a tour in the West Country. 1900 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Apr. 344 The purchase by the Prince of Wales of a six horse-power Daimler motor should still further..popularise automobilism. 1912 E. M. Forster Let. 25 Dec. in Hill of Devi (1953) 17 The Luards..got the Maharajah of Indore's motor. 1929 M. de la Roche Whiteoaks xxviii. 381 They were going by motor to the lakes. 1952 L. Talbot Gentlewoman 65 ‘He quite forgot to fuss any more about the motor.’ ‘Car, Archie. Do try to remember to say car. “Motor” went out with the last world war.’ 1975 J. B. Wadley in Raleigh Bk. Cycling xii. 152 Motor-paced,..Any number..may contest a race ‘behind the motors’. The pacing machine is a powerful motorcycle. 1982 A. Sayle (title of song) 'Ullo John! Gotta new motor? 1992 M. Bence-Jones Catholic Families xi. 277 Talbot Clifton's motor was likewise ‘commandeered’ by Irregulars. c. plural. Stock Market, Stocks or shares in motor car companies. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock > types of joint stock1615 fancya1652 water stock1675 Bank stock1694 India stock1702 government stock1734 inscription1800 gas stock1820 railway stock1836 common stock1852 floater1871 blue chip1874 trunks1892 traction1896 omnium1902 mummy1903 motors1908 rollover1947 blue-chipper1953 red chip1968 large-cap1982 small cap1984 1908 Economist 28 Nov. 1045/2 Motors are weaker. 1929 Economist 12 Oct. 675/1 Public utility stocks have made the best showing, with motors lagging in the rear. 1964 Financial Times 31 Jan. 3/1 Most Motors ended fractions higher although reports said that the United Auto Workers Union—mindful of the industry's profits—was preparing to hand manufacturers the biggest package of contract demand in nine years. 1989 Independent 14 Nov. 29/7 Despite brisk two-way trades the price was ‘less than generous’, said Barclays de Zoete Wedd's motors analyst. †6. Mathematics. A quantity like a vector (having magnitude, direction, and a position which changes with time, as well as a rotational component) which represents the motion of a rigid body. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1873 W. K. Clifford Math. Papers (1882) 183 I propose to call this quantity a motor; the simplest type of it being the general motion of a rigid body. And we shall say that in general the sum of rotors is a motor, but that in particular cases it may degenerate into a rotor or vector. 1878 W. K. Clifford Elem. Dynamic i. 125 A quantity like a twist-velocity, which has magnitude, direction, position, and pitch, is called a motor, from the twist-velocity which is the simplest example of it. 1885 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 7 293 It appears that a bivector represents a motor (screw), and that a biquaternion represents the quotient of two motors. 7. Psychology. A person who relies upon motor (kinaesthetic) representations in mental imagery or processes. Cf. motile n. Now disused. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental image > [noun] > being motor-minded > one who is motile1886 motor1890 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xviii. 62 The young savage was a motor. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xiv. 347 The shrew-type is defined as possessing an ‘active unimpassioned temperament’. In other words, shrews are the ‘motors’, rather than the ‘sensories’. 1929 J. Adams Everyman's Psychol. vii. 155 Men fall into two classes of sensories and motors... Motors have to receive sense impressions, and sensories have to send out messages leading to actions. 1929 J. Adams Everyman's Psychol. vii. 156 The motor is often on the edge of action, eager to go. 8. Cell Biology. a. More fully molecular motor. Any of various molecules, molecular systems, etc., which can produce the mechanical effect of moving other molecules or organelles within a cell. ΚΠ 1964 Acta Otolaryngol. 57 33 (title) On hyaluronate molecules in the labyrinth as mechanoelectrical transducers, and as molecular motors acting as resonators. 1982 Math. Biosci. 2 2 The cellular motor of blue-green algae has as yet not been identified. 1993 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 121 1357 The theory provides a natural classification scheme for the motors: it correlates the biochemical and mechanical differences between ‘porters’ such as cellular kinesins or dyneins, and ‘rowers’ such as muscular myosins or flagellar dyneins. 2010 G. Karp Cell & Molecular Biol. (ed. 6) ix. 328 The binding and hydrolysis of a single ATP molecule is used to drive a power stroke that moves the motor a precise number of nanometers along its track. b. A mechanism in bacteria which causes flagella to rotate, consisting of a rotor (rotor n. 7), stator (stator n.² 3), and other structural elements.A motor is built up from about twenty different proteins and derives its energy from the flow of protons or sodium ions across the cell membrane; this energy is converted to rotary motion. ΚΠ 1975 F. O. Schmidt et al. Functional Linkage in Biomolecular Syst. xiii. 292 A flagellum is driven at its base by a rotary motor, implying the existence of biological equivalents to a rotor, a stator, and rotary bearings. 1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) 720 This disc is part of a tiny ‘motor’ that uses the energy stored in the transmembrane H⁺ gradient to rotate rapidly and turn the helical flagellum. 2005 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 187 5645/2 The motor torque was found to be nearly constant over a wide range of speeds, which is predicted for a mechanism in which energy from the ion gradient is used to apply force to the rotor. B. adj. 1. Anatomy and Physiology. Designating the neural structures (nerves, neurons, etc.) that initiate and coordinate movement, esp. those that cause contraction of skeletal muscle or other effector activity, such as glandular secretion; of or relating to such structures of the nervous system. Cf. earlier motory adj. 1.motor area, cortex, etc.: see sense A. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [adjective] motive?a1425 recurrent1578 motory1683 refluent1741 abducent1752 motorial1768 internuncial1821 motor1823 centrifugal1828 unfilamentous1828 masticatory1834 aesthesodic1859 incito-motor1865 vaso-motor1865 kinesodic1874 centripetal1877 vaso-motorial1877 incito-motory1884 augmentor1885 pilomotor1891 postfixed1892 postganglionic1892 precellular1892 prefixed1892 preganglionic1892 plurisegmental1898 nocifensor1936 the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [adjective] > muscular movement extensive1646 abducent1649 peristaltic1652 metaleptic1656 spastic1822 spasmodic1836 ideomotor1854 idiomuscular1860 fibrillary1875 motor1878 myotatic1881 antergic1890 isometric1891 isotonic1891 neurogenic1901 synkinetic1901 ballistic1905 motoric1926 the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [adjective] > relating to excito-motory1836 motoric1852 motory1865 excito-motor1870 strio-1877 motor1878 motorial1899 1823 C. Bell in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 113 300 The seventh is the auditory nerve, and the division of it, called portio dura, is the motor nerve of the face and eyelids. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 720/2 A nerve may contain sentient and motor fibres. 1878 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 5 766 The largest nerves of the human body (sciatics) arise precisely from that point of the lumbar cord where we find the largest, so-called motor, cells. 1917 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 46 213 The pallidal system is motor, controlling automatic and associated movements. 1942 O. Larsell Anat. Nerv. Syst. xxiv. 326 The upper motor neuron fibers of the pyramidal tract terminate in synaptic relation to large motor cells in the anterior column of the gray matter of the spinal cord. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. iii. 81/1 Each terminal bud is in close proximity to a specialized segment of a muscle fiber called the motor end plate. 1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xvi. 577 The special visceral motor column for branchial musculature is broken up into separate..motor nuclei. 2. Of muscle or muscles; of, relating to, involving, or based on muscular movement or activity.Cf. earlier motory adj. 1. ΚΠ 1848 E. Forbes Naked-eyed Medusæ 3 The muscular system usually consists of a marginal motor ring. 1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XIII. 474 Motor pareses and paralyses. 1884 J. Sully Outl. Psychol. vii. 247 In general the motor representations are weak as compared with the sensory. 1899 A. G. Whyte tr. A. Binet Psychol. of Reasoning 24 When we think of the ball, this idea must comprise the images of these muscular sensations, as it comprises the images of the sensations of sight and touch. Such is the motor image. 1936 Amer. Speech 11 88/2 Speech responses are so complex that they can hardly be considered identical with motor reflexes. 1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour v. 56 People converted at public meetings are more easily hypnotized, display more motor automatisms and can therefore be classified to some extent as hysterics. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. (Parade Suppl.) 6/4 From age 5 until 11–13, boys and girls..are comparable in overall motor ability. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 8 June a10/5 How do you teach laboratory science to children with severely impaired motor skills? 3. Of a force, power, etc.: giving, imparting, causing, or producing motion. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > [adjective] > initiating or causing movement motivea1400 moving?a1425 agitative1528 motionary1612 motory1799 motor1849 1849 G. G. Foster New York in Slices 126 The substitution of bands for cog-wheels as immediate motor powers where vast and complicated motions were required, was boldly adopted by Messrs. Hecker & Brother. 1872 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) I. ii. xx. 506 The accelerating force produced..would be inefficient as a motor power. 1899 Daily News 15 June 6/5 The motor power of the future was not to be steam..but electricity. 1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner May 129/2 No one..would work without incentive. Competition is the—the motor power, you see. 1969 A. Cairncross in Advancement of Sci. 26 66/2 It still leaves consumer demand as the principal motor force governing economic activity. 1991 J. Darracott Art Criticism (BNC) 19 National or political fervour can alternatively be the motor force of remarkable artistic achievements. 4. Botany. Designating the structures (cells, tissues, etc.) involved in the movements of plant parts; (also) of or relating to such movements. ΚΠ 1882 J. S. Burdon-Sanderson in Nature 10 Aug. 354/1 In those little cylinders, the powers of motion of the leaf have their seat. They may, therefore, be called the motor organs of Mimosa. 1894 F. de F. Heald in Bot. Gaz. 19 481 Instead of the term which is in such common use, motile organ, I propose to adopt the term motor organ for those structures whose curvatures set in motion other passive parts. 1914 M. Drummond tr. G. Haberlandt Physiol. Plant Anat. xi. 543 It will be found convenient to distinguish between active and passive motor-tissues. 1928 J. C. Bose (title) The motor mechanism of plants. 1940 New Phytologist 39 104 Some simple storage tissues..react in a way similar to that of the specialized motor organs. 1989 Jrnl. Exper. Bot. 40 1063/1 The leaf is in a state of equilibrium, resulting from restoration of osmotic balance in the pulvinar motor tissue. 1995 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 82 1507/2 Differential K⁺ flux between extensor and flexor regions is..osmotically adjusted by influx or efflux of water, resulting in differential turgor between extensor and flexor motor cells and leaf movement. Compounds C1. Compounds of the noun. a. General attributive. (a) Designating a vehicle, ship, etc., driven or powered by a motor. motor ambulance n. ΚΠ 1915 Manch. Guardian 25 May 5/6 The R.A.M.C. Territorials..succeeded in collecting nearly all the casualties. These were then taken into Zonnebeke village in six motor-ambulances. 1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 318/1 He financed..three motor ambulance convoys, which he maintained at his own expense throughout the war. motor cab n. ΚΠ 1896 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos 25 Sept. 4/3 But, for the convenience of medical men who would like to keep their own vehicles and still do not care to pay for horse feed, the physician's motor cab has been invented. 1992 Sunday Times of India 19 Apr. 23/1 An entry (toll) tax at the rate of Rs 50 per day per motor cab and light motor vehicle. motor-canoe n. ΚΠ 1979 Washington Post 22 Apr. (Mag.) 26/2 The four of us left a cold and ice-clogged Broughton Island, cruising by motor canoe to the head of North Pangnirtung Fjord. 1994 Arctic Circle Spring 22/2 It is too..vulnerable to low-water conditions for tours coming upriver by motor-canoe. motor carriage n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] buggy1888 motor vehicle1890 motor carriage1894 autocar1895 jam jar1895 motor car1895 car1896 traction1896 motor1899 bubble1901 machine1901 Lizzie1913 buzz-wagon1914 road car1914 short1914 scooter1917 buzz-box1920 ride1930 drag1935 bus1939 wagon1955 wheels1959 sheen1968 low rider1974 scoot1977 1894 Manufacturer & Builder Apr. 81/3 In Fig. 2 is shown a view of the motor carriage and one trailer, as constructed for suburban and cross-country traffic. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 20 July 5/1 In motor-carriage design, as in many other things in the country, there is no uniformity. 1988 Road & Track Nov. 156 (advt.) Classic Motor Carriages has eliminated..legwork..by compiling the first easily assembled, complete 1934 Ford replica kit. motorcraft n. ΚΠ 1905 Daily Chron. 17 June 9/1 The latest regulation that no small boat should ‘lock’ with a motor-craft appears to have caused considerable surprise. 1999 Christian Sci. Monitor 18 Oct. 19/3 The peace was still being shattered..by the growling passage of motorcraft. motor cruiser n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > motorboat motor boat1871 cabin cruiser1921 motor cruiser1921 runabout1932 cruiser1971 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > motor-cruiser cabin cruiser1921 motor cruiser1921 cruiser1971 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Oct. 23/2 The motor cruiser Speejacks was reported safe last night. 1999 J. Raban Passage to Juneau viii. 433 Sailboats and motor cruisers zigzagged from inlet to inlet. motor-float n. ΚΠ 1907 A. Williams Romance Mod. Mechanism viii. 165 Messrs. Merryweather..built the motor float, 32 feet long,..drawing 27 inches. Two engines, each having four cylinders of a total of 30 h.p. 1924 B. Gilbert Bly Market 17 ‘That Pickard’ the Winch dealer who had so benefited by the War that he'd bought a motor-float. 1951 Pop. Mech. May 109 (caption) The ‘trailer hitch’ for the motor float is mounted on a wood block inside the flap on the boat stern. 1978 D. Toulmin Harvest Home 118 A motor float came and took the brute away, and a gie struggle the driver had loading him. motor-gun n. ΚΠ 1889 F. R. Stockton Great War Syndicate 107 The bow of the repeller was brought to bear upon the ‘Adamant’, and her motor gun was aimed at the boom from which the cannon was suspended. 1908 H. G. Wells War in Air ii. §2 Near Maidstone they came on a string of eleven motor-guns. 1915 Motor Age 2 Sept. 18/1 Captain William J. Smedberg, Jr.,..the machine gun expert of the United States army, has accompanied this motor gun troop as officer of instruction. 2003 J. Loret in J. Loret & J. T. Tanacredi Easter Island i. 25 An adapter was machined to fit the coring bit to the ‘Sioux’ air motor gun, model #1454. motor hansom n. now historical ΚΠ 1900 Amer. Manuf. 22 Mar. 238/1 Repair account on the motor hansom is necessarily greater than on the two-wheel horse hansom. 1904 Daily Chron. 8 Jan. 9/5 The County Council insists that the motor hansom shall also be registered. 1997 D. Culshaw & P. Horrobin Compl. Catal. Brit. Cars 1895–1975 330/1 (caption) 1905 Vauxhall 9-hp Motor Hansom. motor hearse n. ΚΠ 1922 Daily Mail 4 Nov. 10 The charges for licences on motor-hearses and handies. 1973 ‘R. MacLeod’ Burial in Portugal i. 23 An elderly motor hearse with black paintwork and tarnished chrome..carried a polished oak coffin. motor landau n. now historical ΚΠ 1903 Car Illustr. 4 152/1 The very handsome motor landau which we illustrate herewith has been built by the firm of Charron, Girardot, and Voigt for Miss Alice de Rothschild. 1916 ‘R. Dehan’ Earth to Earth 73 The motor-landau in waiting for him at Covertsham Station, Deershire, was destined to receive a second passenger. 1979 C. E. King Antique Toys & Dolls 4 A clockwork chauffeur-driven motor landau with folding seats. 2009 S. Hylton Horseless Carriage iv. 37 The motorised equivalent of this [coach] was called the motor landau or landaulette, and was the most popular form of closed car just prior to the First World War. motor launch n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > launch launch1865 motor launch1897 ML1928 vedette1963 1897 Autocar 10 July 442/1 (heading) To the naval review in a motor launch. 1935 Discovery Dec. 372/2 A little undecked motor-launch for inshore work. 1999 National Trust Mag. Summer 64/1 (advt.) We travel by motor launch to Murano famous for its Venetian glass factories. motor lifeboat n. ΚΠ 1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 26 May 415/1 Motor-Lifeboats. Yet another application of the gasolene motor is found in its use..as a means of propulsion in some new lifeboats recently constructed. 1992 Ships Monthly Apr. 22/1 Lifesaving equipment includes four..motor lifeboats. motor-liner n. ΚΠ 1913 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 31/1 The motor-liner above mentioned and her two sister-ships were built. 1931 Evening Standard 16 Jan. 9/1 (caption) The new motor-liner Warwick Castle leaving Belfast for her final trials. motor lorry n. ΚΠ 1897 Autocar 10 July 443 (caption) Motor lorry at the Royal Agricultural Society's Exhibition. 1934 Discovery Apr. 94/1 In most portions of the globe explorers under the new order have the valuable aids of aeroplane and motor-lorry. 1992 S. Holloway Courage High! xxviii. 223/1 These [Sea Trucks]..were shallow–draught vessels, their decks resembling the ‘trays’ of motor lorries. motor meter n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > instrument measuring or recording automatically > specific gas meter1815 wet meterc1865 slot-meter1899 motor meter1903 society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > devices for > specific meter1832 time stamp1855 telemeter1877 tape recorder1892 slot-meter1899 motor meter1903 check meter1909 Recordak1928 Thermo-Fax1953 ultramicrofiche1967 ultrafiche1971 electronic tag1980 1903 L. C. Reed Amer. Meter Pract. iii. 37 These ten watts are the input into the motor meter, and the efficiency of this motor meter will give the ratio of the torque exerted on the armature. 1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 I. 73/2 Ayrton and Perry invented a clock meter and a motor meter which served as models for the meters now used. 1971 Gloss. Electrotechnical, Power Terms (B.S.I.) i. iv. 12 Motor meter, meter incorporating a motor. motor mower n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > lawn-mower steam lawn-mower1812 grass cutter1834 grass mower1855 lawn-mower1875 grass trimmer1876 lawn-cutter1897 motor mower1907 power mower1913 lawn edger1960 Strimmer1978 1907 ‘J. Halsham’ Lonewood Corner 149 The motor-mower and the electric elevator will presently demand attention. 1998 BBC Top Gear Mag. Sept. 53/2 Entries are cobbled together with engines extracted from motor mowers..or even strimmers. motor omnibus n. ΚΠ 1896 Beaumont in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 10 Jan. 161 The motor omnibus shown by Fig. 48. 1908 Sketch 11 Sept. 340 We are at last to have a service of motor-omnibuses in London. 1955 Times 9 May 9/1 The tyres of motor omnibuses, it was said, were punctured. motor plough n. now historical ΚΠ 1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 764/2 Great things are anticipated of a new method of land culture by means of a motor-plough. 1919 C. S. Churchill Let. 9 Mar. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) x. 219 He insists on grubbing the 2 wild fields at once & turning a motor plough on to them. 2006 G. R. Quick Austral. Tractors x. 71/1 The 10-disc motor plough..was claimed to be capable of two acres an hour. motor ship n. ΚΠ 1912 Motor Ship & Motor Boat 1 Aug. 77 (caption) M. S. ‘Zoroaster’, one of the first large motor ships to be put into service. 1992 Ships Monthly Apr. 19/1 The motor ship Clan MacGowan..was built for Clan Line Steamers Ltd. motor-sledge n. ΚΠ 1908 Daily Chron. 17 Aug. 1/4 From that station the party will explore the interior in motor-sledges, following..the example of the British expedition now in Victoria Land. 1999 C. Orsman South 42 Here are the motor-sledges careering to the horizon. motor-sloop n. ΚΠ 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Jan. 33/3 M. Knut Stubbendorff..chartered the motor-sloop Isbjörn. motor toboggan n. ΚΠ 1948 New Deal for Saskatchewan Fisheries 20 Motor toboggans..manoeuver in almost any kind of terrain. 1992 North & South (Auckland) Feb. 23 In recent years the..motor toboggan had become the main mode of transport. motor torpedo boat n. ΚΠ 1940 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 7 Aug.–1 Oct. 16 One of our motor torpedo-boats, thinking that the enemy ahead was an E-boat, and being too close to take action, rammed the enemy. 1998 Canal Boat & Inland Waterways June 102/2 A selection of houseboats, among which was an ex–Admiralty Fairmile motor torpedo boat. motor tractor n. ΚΠ 1905 Sci. Amer. 4 Nov. (Suppl.) 24948/3 At the recent show of the British Royal Agricultural Society great interest was centred in the Scott motor tractor. 1993 G. Ward Water Damage (1994) xii.133 He had graduated to the steam traction engines and the old clacking motor tractors. motor train n. now historical ΚΠ 1895 Northwestern Reporter 63 25/1 The motor train on which he proposed riding had just passed, when Melvln came out of the alley. 1927 Observer 13 Nov. 13/3 ‘Rail motors’ or ‘motor trains’, may either take the form of self-contained vehicles having a steam or petrol engine built into the coach, or of trains hauled by very small engines and arranged to be driven from either end. 1993 G. L. Thompson Passenger Train in Motor Age Notes 219 In 1930, expenses are shown as $1.05 per train mile for the steam train and $0.60 per mile for the motor train. 2000 A. C. Mierzejewski Most Valuable Asset of Reich II. ii. ii. 35 The Reichsbahn introduced more high-speed motor train services, creating a network that linked the major population and business centers of the country by 1938. motor-tricycle n. ΚΠ 1896 Beaumont in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 10 Jan. 152 The motor tricycle shown by Fig. 34 is an oil motor cycle made in 1883. 1999 Stamp Mag. Dec. 112/2 Tuk–tuk (present day passenger motor-tricycle). motor truck n. ΚΠ 1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 July 15/5 The iron-shod war horse of former days has evolved into the padded wheel motor car, motor truck, and motor cycle of 1916. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Dec. 72/3 It carried the mysterious, celebratory words that all Indian motor trucks have at the back: OKTATA. motor vessel n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel powerboat1830 motor boat1871 motor vessel1931 1931 Daily Tel. 21 May 7/5 Pioneers of motor-vessels to the East. 1996 Daily Tel. 11 Oct. 29/3 A line of six German Raumboote, armed motor vessels, was sighted. motor-wagon n. ΚΠ 1895 Autocar 16 Nov. 30/2 Can there be devised a steam or other motor-waggon which will travel fifty or sixty miles, and take to the nearest market the farmer's corn? 1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning iii. i. 320 The raiders..helped themselves..loading the loot into light motor-wagons. motor yacht n. ΚΠ 1905 Outing May 218/2 A 90 foot motor yacht was launched late last season. 2000 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. a4/1 His black–and–white motor yacht..was tethered to a pier. (b) Of, relating to, or designed for use in motors, motor vehicles, or motoring. motor accident n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > collision or accident car accident1834 street accident1835 accident1836 smash-up1856 car crash1877 car wreck1877 motor accident1910 wreck1912 crash1917 rollover1955 prang1959 shunt1959 1910 ‘Saki’ Reginald in Russia 17 What I had mistaken for a motor accident was evidently a case of savage assault and murder. 1972 ‘M. Yorke’ Silent Witness vi. 123 Roy's father had been killed in a motor accident. motor age n. ΚΠ 1899 (title) Motor Age. 1936 Pop. Mech. 66 674/1 The motor court is a recent development of the motor age. 1988 G. E. Cherry Cities & Plans (BNC) 170 The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year. motor bonnet n. ΚΠ 1908 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 13/2 The motor-bonnet to match is quite a good feature. This more or less new whim in motoring headgear has been a big success, so becoming is it with its little frill of lace and its rosettes. 1937 J. Laver Taste & Fashion x. 151 The latest trimming for these motor bonnets. motor cap n. ΚΠ 1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Jan. 3/4 (advt.) Motor Caps. 50c, 75c, $1.00 reduced to 40c. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 882/2 Motor caps... Seal fur caps, with earflaps. motor chassis n. ΚΠ 1915 Pearson's Mag. Jan. 25 Great lines of these old motor-chassis, mounted with a serviceable lorry body, are to be met with on all the roads of France. 1928 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 42 325 The motor chassis assembling industry. motor clothing n. ΚΠ 1903 Motor News June 191 (advt.) Switzer's motor clothing. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping 881/1 Fur Motor Clothing..Russian Pony, natural Raccoon Collar. motor club n. ΚΠ 1909 Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 4/2 In the consumption trial of the Liverpool Motor Club a 10-12 Humber car..carried off the first prize. 1993 Dressage & CT Apr. 35/2 Equine Roadgard is a motor club that reimburses members for emergency road service to their..horse trailers. motor coat n. ΚΠ 1903 Motor News June 191 (advt.) Switzer's Motor Clothing... Motor Coat (as illustration). Can be worn either as an ordinary coat, or..the skirt can be enlarged so as to form a complete Coat and Apron. 1910 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 480/1 A long leather motor-coat. motor-course n. ΚΠ 1909 C. Weld-Blundell in Englishman 24 Feb. 410/1 Let them by all means run on their own motor-courses, enjoy each other's stench, [etc.]. motor dealer n. ΚΠ 1931 Man. Morris Minor Car (Morris Motors Ltd.) 50 Gauges for testing balloon tyre pressures can be bought from all reputable motor dealers. 1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. (Suppl.) 10/6 Thulecraft Ltd Marine & Motor Dealers..Xmas ideas..Toy quads. motor fitter n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > engineer > [noun] > motor mechanic motor mechanic1913 mech1918 grease monkey1928 motor fitter1961 1961 Evening Standard 26 July 22/6 Skilled..motor fitter required. 1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry ix. 77 He's a mechanic, but he'd rather be called a motor fitter. motor garage n. ΚΠ 1902 Times 1 Mar. 4/3 Motor Garage. 1926 ‘N. Shute’ Marazan viii. 272 I got a job as odd boy in a motor garage. motor goggles n. ΚΠ 1914 M. Beerbohm Seven Men (1919) 127 He did not wear motor-goggles. 1936 A. Ransome Pigeon Post xxii. 224 John, his eyes protected by motor goggles, was at work at the vein with hammer and chisel. motor-hooter n. ΚΠ 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson xix. 291 All along the soaked towing-path lay strewn the horns, the rattles, the motor-hooters, that the youths had flung aside. motor horn n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > horn horn1901 motor horn1904 hooter1908 pip-pip1909 honker1910 1904 A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist xii. 258 The note of the motor-horn is not beautiful. 1970 V. Canning Great Affair xii. 211 A chorus of motor horns began to blow in anger at some road block. motor industry n. ΚΠ 1896 Autocar 4 Apr. (front cover) Certain Capitalists, prominent in the Motor Industry, have already acquired several Motor Patents. 1937 Times 22 Nov. 21/3 On top of this disappointment came a fresh outbreak of ‘outlaw’ strikes in the motor industry. 2000 Independent 3 May i. 2/1 The crisis in what is left of our motor industry. motor insurance n. ΚΠ 1917 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 25 561 Motor-car insurance was introduced in this country in the same year.] 1933 G. W. Gilbert (title) Motor insurance. 1998 V. Wallis Which? Guide to Insurance v. 69 You must have a ‘certificate of motor insurance’. motor jerkin n. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 465 In motor jerkin, green motorgoggles on his brow. motor journey n. ΚΠ 1907 L. P. De Castelvecchio tr. L. Barzini Pekin to Paris xiv. 412 The wind and the splashes of mud..prevented him from appreciating any longer the pleasures of too long a motor journey. 1922 V. McGill (title) Diary of a motor journey from Chicago to Los Angeles. 2005 S. Yu & J. Chen tr. Zhang Jie She knocked at Door xv. 191 I have been on a motor journey. I went to the south of the States, the high plateaus of the southwest, the Pacific coast. motor lantern n. ΚΠ 1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xxi. 248 Humphrey had hung one of the motor lanterns on to a branch. motor licence n. ΚΠ 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 413/2 The motor licence case. 1919 Outing Mar. 332/2 You invest in a brand new motor license every year. motor-mania n. ΚΠ 1957 Railway Mag. June 392/1 The beginnings of a reaction from the worst of motor-mania are bringing the uninitiated back on to the narrow gauge. 1966 Punch 16 Feb. 232 The ingenuity, energy and wealth that mechanised intellectual Peter Pans devote to indulgence of their motor-mania. motor manufacturer n. ΚΠ 1903 Motor. Ann. 253 Rhodesia has appealed to motor manufacturers to supply motor-wagons or tractors for use specially in hilly country. 1999 Which? May 16/3 We complained about this term to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. motor-mask n. ΚΠ 1916 War Illustr. 5 451/3 Our goggles..are shaped like a motor-mask. motor mechanic n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > engineer > [noun] > motor mechanic motor mechanic1913 mech1918 grease monkey1928 motor fitter1961 1913 F. H. Rogers & G. W. Watson (title) The motor mechanics' handbook. 1990 J. Gribben & M. Rees Cosmic Coincidences (1991) xi. 276 The average quantum mechanic is no more philosophical than the average motor mechanic. motor museum n. ΚΠ 1974 Country Life 14 Nov. 1496/1 Yet another motor museum to attract the public. 1986 Dict. National Biogr. 1971–80 302/1 Neither Speed of the Wind nor Thunderbolt survived for honourable retirement in a motor museum. motor oil n. ΚΠ 1910 Polit. Sci. Q. 25 380 The tax on motor oil would advance the interests of the Standard Oil Company. 2000 M. Hamid Moth Smoke xiii. 214 I look at..his chin streaked with motor oil. motor race n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] motor race1900 motor racing1905 lappery1937 1900 Racing Rules & Regulations (Motor Car Club) 11 In all Motor Races held under the Rules of the Motor Car Club it must be stated on all Entry Forms..that they are so held. 1936 J. B. Priestley They walk in City iii. 41 An aeroplane parade, a motor race, a parade of cadets. 1982 G. Lyall Conduct of Major Maxim 154 Fraulein Winkelmann sat down again, staring at the TV. There was a zooming motor race on. motor racing n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] motor race1900 motor racing1905 lappery1937 1905 Official Programme Internat. Tourist Trophy 4 A new departure in the history of motor racing. 2000 Independent 20 Sept. (Business Review section) 7/5 Motor racing is one of Roger's passions. motor ride n. ΚΠ 1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xx. 241 You owe me a motor-ride, you know. 1989 B. Paris Louise Brooks i. ii. 39 A trip around the world is better than a motor ride to a roadhouse. motor-road n. ΚΠ 1909 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 2/2 Of more dramatic interest is the second part of the Bill, with its proposal for the creation of motor-roads. 1991 Classical Rev. 41 392 This route—still probably not a motor–road—was much used in 1943–44. motor run n. ΚΠ 1908 H. James Let. 16 Dec. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) ii. 104 I..am only troubled least [read lest] you shouldn't be able to tell me about John Hugh before my nephew. We will appoint at any rate a motor-run for the purpose. 1936 J. Joyce Let. 18 Nov. (1966) III. 393 Perhaps you could make your suggested motor run to the school at Zug? motor salesman n. ΚΠ 1936 J. B. Priestley They walk in City i. 17 Mysterious and vaguely amorous gentlemen friends, usually commercial travellers or motor salesmen, loom and soar and suddenly vanish. 1973 A. Behrend Samarai Affair vi. 65 That Bromborough motor salesman chap separated from his wife. motor scarf n. ΚΠ 1899 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xxii. 261 Motor scarves. 1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 1420 (caption) Chiffon Motor Scarf, wide hem-stitched border..in all the latest shades. motor show n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > motor vehicle > an exhibition of motor show1898 Motorama1947 1898 Autocar 17 Dec. 807/1 (heading) Liverpool cycle and motor show. 1905 S. A. Barnett Let. 2 Dec. in H. Barnett Canon Barnett (1918) II. 194 We have been to the Motor Show, when vast Olympia was crammed by a fashionable crowd. 1972 Nature 31 Mar. 193/1 It is difficult to believe that international motor shows are instrumental in selling cars. motor smash n. ΚΠ 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End x. 83 ‘Evie, dearest girl, why aren't you in Yorkshire?’ ‘No—motor smash—changed plans.’ 1947 Public Opinion Q. 340 If Britain were ever to die, it would be of old age, and not from a motor smash—let alone suicide. motor-spectacles n. ΚΠ 1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock ii. iii. 262 She disengaged her arms to take off his disfiguring motor-spectacles. motor-sport n. ΚΠ 1924 (title) The Brooklands gazette. Organ of motor and motor cycle sport.] 1936 S. Szenasy in H. Stuck & E. G. Burggaller Motoring Sport 22 Motor sport in America is apt to be more of a circus performance..than to be of practical value. 2000 Pract. Classics June 9 I must admit I'm no motorsport fan and know next to nothing about Grand Prix. motor tour n. ΚΠ 1896 Belfast News-let. 16 Nov. 6/2 He took the credit to himself for having initiated the motor tour to Brighton. 1909 London Mag. Sept. 18/2 Excursions through the sky..are to become as common as motor-tours. 1990 P. Jackson Britain's Deaf Heritage (BNC) 207 The Headmaster..was on a motor tour of Yorkshire.., and got into severe difficulties at Skipton when his car ran off the road and broke down. motor track n. ΚΠ 1903 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 66 670 That exclusive motor track which is now suggested as the feature of the road-building of the future! 1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 1010/2 He was grudgingly allowed to try out his experimental machines [sc. aeroplanes] at Brooklands, then a motor track. motor trade n. ΚΠ 1917 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 27 287 Over-standardization in nations would be as cramping and blighting as it would be, say, in the motor trade. 1967 J. Lennon & P. McCartney She's Leaving Home (song, perf. ‘The Beatles’) in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away Waiting to keep the appointment she made Meeting a man from the motor trade. 1998 Viz Aug. 22/3 (advt.) High quality information in the motor trade is like gold dust—once it has been discovered, no-one wants to share it with anybody. motor traffic n. ΚΠ 1909 Daily Mail 5 Aug. 5/2 To construct loop roads for fast motor traffic round villages. 1991 Eng. Today Apr. 28/1 Confusion of words... As long as people sustained very serious injuries..a motor traffic accident would still be fatal even if no one died. motor transport n. ΚΠ 1901 Morning Leader 18 Dec. 6/4 The War Office has again been testing motor transport vehicles, mostly steamers. 1991 Impact of Sci. on Society (UNESCO) No. 162. 85 Urban sprawl has been possible only because the car and collective motor transport enable people to travel long distances every day. motor travel n. ΚΠ 1923 A. E. Housman Let. 18 Aug. (1971) 215 Blazing hot all the time while motor-travel could temper it [sc. the weather]. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Jan. a10 The amount of what the State Department calls ‘open banditry’ has been enough for it to warn tourists of ‘serious danger in motor travel in Sinaloa’. motor-travelling n. ΚΠ 1909 Chambers's Jrnl. June 342/2 Putting the accidents on railways and on the roads together, motor-travelling included. motor trip n. ΚΠ 1909 E. Wharton Let. 21 July (1988) 188 The Master of Rye..telegraphed me that he wanted to be taken on a little motor trip. 1993 A. L. Hall Deliria (BNC) 42 We pile into the car as if embarking on a real motor trip. motor trouble n. ΚΠ 1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 55/1 Cleaver and Latham dropped into the Mediterranean..because of motor trouble. motor tyre n. ΚΠ 1907 Nature 14 Feb. 383/1 Chemical composition of some motor-tyre rubbers. 1970 P. Y. Carter Mr. Campion's Falcon vii. 59 Packing-cases, old motor tyres, drums of paint. motor veil n. ΚΠ 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 320 d/3 Motor veil. In Crêpe de Chine. 1926 W. de la Mare Connoisseur & Other Stories 70 She was a rare one for the fashions: scarves and motor-veils, and that kind of thing. b. Instrumental. motor-aided adj. ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron. 17 July 9/6 In comparing Bishop's 513 miles with previous performances humanly assisted, as distinct from motor-aided records, it is only fair to recall that when Cordang did 616 miles on the Crystal Palace track, the pacing instruments were fitted up with canvas wind shields. motor-assisted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [adjective] > having (specific) mechanical power > assisting manual operation > spec motor-assisted1953 1953 Power & Pedal Feb. 17/3 You may have to make a distinction between a motor-assisted bicycle and a motor-cycle's younger relation. 1984 Truck & Bus Transportation July 50/3 If the motor-assisted bicycle does not exceed..200 watts..in power then it does not require registration. motor-driven adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [adjective] > having (specific) mechanical power > specific motor-driven1895 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > motor > [adjective] motor-driven1895 petrol-electric1903 1895 Autocar 30 Nov. 57/2 The motor-driven tricycle class is represented only by one machine. 1974 H. R. F. Keating Bats fly Up iii. 31 A powerful motor-driven show. motor-dusted adj. ΚΠ 1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane iii. xviii. 236 His eyes were fixed on the white, motor-dusted hedges. motor-infested adj. ΚΠ 1909 Q. Rev. Jan. 143 This singularly congested and motor-infested country. 1931 T. H. Pear Voice & Personality 43 Today's world of motor-infested ‘beauty-spots’. motor-propelled adj. ΚΠ 1927 E. Hemingway Let. 13 Feb. (2015) III. 202 Hickock and I are demarring in H's motor propelled veehcle [sic] for Rimini and San Marino on or abt. March 20. 1942 Times 9 Oct. 2/2 There are..machines for levelling—motor-propelled scrapers—tractors, dumpers, angle-dozers and bull-dozers. c. motor accessory n. an attachment, spare part, etc., for a motor vehicle. ΚΠ 1919 Sci. Monthly Apr. 302 One firm, which has been manufacturing fuses, is turning over to the manufacture of electric fittings, another to motor accessories. 2000 Leicester Mercury (Electronic ed.) 3 Nov. This is the ideal place to..do some early Christmas shopping, whether you are looking for stylish gold jewellery or practical motor accessories. motor bandit n. a person who commits a crime using, or in connection with, a motor vehicle. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > who uses a motor car motor bandit1912 1912 (title of film) The motor bandits. 1993 R. Murphy Smash & Grab iv. 49/2 But such discreet, unobtrusive..forms of burglary attracted less attention than the spectacular exploits of the ‘motor bandits’. motorboard n. the fixed plate on a record player that bears and distributes the weight of the moving components. ΚΠ 1922 S. A. Maycock Handbk. Gramophone ix. 54 The conversion of a gramophone from spring to electric motor is quite a simple matter. A hole is made in the motor-board..and..the motor and switch are screwed down. 1987 Gramophone Jan. 1073/3 The main pivot pillar..will already suit some turntable motorboards. motor camp n. originally U.S. a campsite for tourists, equipped with various amenities (sometimes with cabins for rent) and having space for motor vehicles, caravans, and tents (cf. mocamp n.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > a parking place > area where caravans may be parked > and camping site auto camp1904 motor camp1925 1925 Sat. Evening Post 10 Oct. 98/1 The average motor camp is too well known to need any description. 1984 Metro (Auckland) Mar. 88/1 The trio had lived at a motorcamp and then at a house in East Coast Bays. motor cannon n. (a) a piece of artillery on a motor chassis, similar to the later armoured car or self-propelled gun; (b) an aircraft cannon (firing shells) mounted within the hub of a propeller. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > other pieces of ordnance bombardc1430 ribaudequin1443 stock-gun1465 seven sistersa1529 chamber1540 bastard1545 chamber piece1547 volger1548 dogc1550 battardc1565 long shot1595 quarter piece1625 pelican1639 monkey1650 spirol1653 stock-fowler1669 saltamartino1684 smeriglio1688 botcarda1700 carriage gun1723 Lancaster1857 Armstrong1860 wire gun1860 Columbiad1861 Parrott1861 wedge-gun1876 truck-gun1883 motor cannon1889 Black Maria1914 Jack Johnson1914 supergun1915 flak1938 1889 F. R. Stockton Great War Syndicate 93 She [sc. the vessel] carried one motor-cannon of large size. 1903 Car Illustr. 9 Dec. p. vii./2 What is described as a motor cannon is about to be constructed at Spandau in Germany..a kind of locomotive fort, propelled by a petrol motor and giving shelter to two guns. 1914 Motor Age 26 Mar. 32/2 (heading) French Army Adopts Motor Cannon... The artillery section of the army has been working for a considerable time on the production of a 75-millimeter motor car cannon. 1919 Handbk. Ordnance Data 1918 (U.S. Army) xi. 251 37-mm. motor cannon.—The 37-mm. semiautomatic cannon is mounted in the V of a motor with the barrel extending through the hollow propeller hub. 1939 War Illustr. 9 Dec. 390 It was to a similar type of French engine that the first successful ‘motor-cannon’, or shell gun, firing between the arms of the ‘V’, was fitted. 2013 G. L. Rottman SNAFU 265 The Kanonenboot was armed with three 2cm cannons (one motor cannon and two in under-wing pods..) and two 13mm cowling machine guns. motor caravan n. (a) a caravan designed to be towed by a motor car; (b) a motor vehicle incorporating the features of a caravan. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation van1829 house wagon1833 living wagon1851 wagon1851 motor-van1898 motor caravan1909 van1922 trailer caravan1930 trailer1931 caravanette1934 mobile home1934 travel trailer1936 trailer home1940 static caravan1947 recreational vehicle1949 van1952 trailer house1954 caravette1958 camper1960 pickup camper1960 motor home1961 caravan1962 cab-over1964 RV1967 manufactured home1976 micro-mini1989 1909 Daily Chron. 10 June 4/6 The sight-seeing motor-caravans now yellowing the thoroughfares between London's historic sights. 1957 Motor 28 Aug. 97/2 A vehicle known as the Motor Caravan. 1964 Which? Apr. 35/1 A motor caravan is basically an ordinary van that has been fitted with windows, beds and cupboards, a table, cooker and sink. 1990 Internat. H & E Monthly 91 No. 9. 11/1 Caravans are available for hire..and if you've got your own motor caravan you can bring that too. motor coach n. (a) a single-decker bus; (b) a railway coach equipped with its own motor. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > railway carriage incorporating engine unit1902 motor coach1923 power car1936 multiple-unit1963 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > motor-driven > single-decker service car1916 coach1923 motor coach1923 1906 Westm. Gaz. 5 June 5/3 An excursion train on the Great Western line colliding..with an empty rail-motor coach.] 1923 Michelin Guide to Great Brit. (ed. 7) p. ii Some owners of motor coaches. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 559/2 Motor-coach, a passenger coach, equipped with its own motors, for use on electrified railways; it is commonly used in conjunction with trailer coaches to make up a multiple-unit train. 1957 Railway Mag. Mar. 159/2 A cubicle containing the majority of the low-tension control equipment is housed in a van compartment in the motor coach. 1981 J. Gardam Hollow Land viii. 115 Now there's fleets of motor coaches and caravans. motor-coaster n. (a) a motorized vessel designed for use in coastal waters; (b) a type of roller coaster at a funfair. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > motor-coaster motor-coaster1928 society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > roller coaster or railway montagne russe1834 mountain railway1851 switchback1863 rollercoaster1883 scenic railway1890 chute1908 coaster1910 moon rocket1921 motor-coaster1928 giant racer1934 Big Dipper1935 scenic1956 1928 Daily Express 5 Dec. 11/4 It is feared that the London motor-coaster, Wander.., has been lost, with a crew of five. 1974 Amer. Speech 1971 46 84 Fast-moving amusement rides on elevated rails: toboggan, high rides,..shoot the chutes, motor coasters. 1986 Dict. National Biogr. 1971–80 59/1 Operation Bridford..consisted of a flotilla of five motor-coasters. motor cop n. U.S. colloquial = motorcycle cop n. at motorcycle n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > mobile > on motorcycle motor cop1915 motorcycle policeman1919 motorcycle cop1927 motorcycle officer1935 1915 Policeman's Monthly Oct. 14/1 The motor cops were brought in on the ‘carpet’. 1949 W. R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle 197 None of them saw..the..motor cop behind him. motor court n. U.S. a motel. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel hotel1687 hotel garni1744 lodgea1817 gasthof1832 temperance house1833 temperance hotel1837 railway hotel1839 palace hotel1844 parador1845 caravanserai1848 resort hotel1886 metropole1890 Ritz1900 trust house1902 apartment hotel1909 welfare hotel1915 motel1925 motor hotel1925 auto court1926 motor court1936 motor lodge1936 residential1940 botel1956 floatel1959 apartotel1965 motor inn1967 1936 Pop. Mech. Nov. 674/1 The motor court is a recent development of the motor age. It's not a tourist park, it's not an auto camp... It's a collection of miniature homes clustered around a central service and administration building. 1989 Holiday Which? Jan. 59/1 Cheapest of all are likely to be motels or motor courts on the outskirts of town: plain rooms, or separate cabins, with shower and TV. motor-drive n. (a) a drive or journey in a motor car; (b) a mechanism for transmitting motive power provided by a motor, spec. one in a camera for moving on the film. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > capacity for exertion of mechanical force > motive power or force > driving machinery by motor-drive1906 power drive1909 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > a ride in a vehicle > in a motor car car drive1871 car ride1902 motor-drive1906 1906 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) II. 221 The details of the motor-drive are quite plausible. 1936 Discovery Apr. 113/2 The compressor, or vacuum pump, has an independent motor drive. 1971 Amateur Photographer 13 Jan. 51/1 The exposure system is powered by the motor drive batteries but a bridge circuit makes it independent of their precise voltage as they run down. 1988 Pract. Photogr. Sept. 55/1 Integral motor-drives are generally of a very high standard. motor driver n. (a) a driver of a motor vehicle; (b) = motor-drive n. (b). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle automobilist1896 motorist1896 autoist1899 chauffeur1899 motor-carist1899 motor driver1902 jockey1912 drive1999 1902 Pall Mall Mag. 28 410/1 Should motor drivers be subject to an examination as to proficiency? 1968 J. H. Burn Lect. Notes Pharmacol. (ed. 9) 7 It is good for a motor-driver driving through the night. 1990 Mech. Engin. June 32/3 Four-axis motion controller... Up to four motor-drivers are completely contained in..a..rack or desktop enclosure. 1992 RS Components: Electronic & Electr. Products July 805/3 A high speed bipolar buffer amplifier designed to provide 1 amp at high frequencies... Applications include video amps, motor drivers, pulse transformer drivers, op-amp boosters and the like. motordrome n. a motor racing track. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > course or track autodrome1901 motordrome1908 speedway1925 strip1941 bullring1970 1908 Westm. Gaz. 4 Aug. 4/3 Mr. Locke-King has spent a large fortune in building this wonderful motordrome. 1993 Speedway Star 13 Feb. 22/1 Still with bruised ribs following his massive crash in the NSW speedway title at Newcastle Motordrome several weeks earlier, he won..an easy victory. motor gasoline n. Oil Industry the petroleum fuel for the internal combustion engine; motor spirit; abbreviated MOGAS. ΚΠ 1919 E. W. Dean (U.S. Bureau Mines Techn. Paper No. 214) (title) Motor gasoline properties. 1949 Our Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) (ed. 2) 330 (Glossary) Gasoline..is the normal term in the U.S.A. to denote motor spirit (motor gasoline or just ‘gas’)... In the U.K. ‘gasoline’ sometimes denotes a petroleum spirit of lower distillation range than motor spirit. 1999 Daily Nation (Nairobi) 19 Nov. (Your Weekender Mag. section) 9/2 (advt.) In the reseller sector, Shell is number one in the distribution of motor gasoline, lubricants and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). motor generator n. an apparatus consisting of an electric motor and a generator with their armature shafts mechanically coupled, which may be used to control the voltage, frequency, or number of phases of a supply. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > generator > [noun] rheomotor1843 generator1879 magneto-generator1883 motor generator1887 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > motor > [noun] > generator motor generator1887 1887 Electrician 2 Dec. 74/1 We are enabled to reproduce photographs and sectional drawings of the Paris and Scott motor generator which recently underwent some tests at the Newcastle Exhibition. 1930 Engineering 28 Feb. 278/2 The electrical load is consequently divided between the steam-driven sets and motor-generator sets in accordance with the demand for heating steam. 1986 H. I. Andrews Railway Traction iv. 84 These performance figures would equally represent the performance of a gas turbine or similar locomotive having motor-generator transmission. motor glider n. a glider equipped with an engine, primarily to make it self-launching; used esp. in training glider pilots (cf. sailplane n.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > glider > [noun] > having an engine motor glider1923 1923 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 27 531 One of the things that instantly occurred to most people..was that the motor glider heralded the dawn of a new era in commercial aeronautics. 1990 Pilot Oct. 8/3 I've got an endorsement on my licence which says that I can fly Self-Launching Motor Gliders. motor home n. originally and chiefly North American a very large vehicle equipped as a self-contained home (cf. mobile home n.). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > caravan cart-house1603 caravan1805 house wagon1833 wagon1851 house trailer1885 caboose1912 mobile home1934 travel trailer1936 trailer home1940 static caravan1947 Dormobile1952 caravette1953 trailer house1954 motor home1961 double-wide1966 static1980 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation van1829 house wagon1833 living wagon1851 wagon1851 motor-van1898 motor caravan1909 van1922 trailer caravan1930 trailer1931 caravanette1934 mobile home1934 travel trailer1936 trailer home1940 static caravan1947 recreational vehicle1949 van1952 trailer house1954 caravette1958 camper1960 pickup camper1960 motor home1961 caravan1962 cab-over1964 RV1967 manufactured home1976 micro-mini1989 1961 Chicago Sunday Tribune 19 Feb. i. 3/4 Two young girls are undergoing a unique experience at the Chicago Automobile show... They are living in a ‘motor home’ which is part of the Dodge exhibit. Unlike a trailer, this ‘motor home’ is mounted on a Dodge truck chassis... It sleeps up to eight persons. 1993 Guardian 24 July (Weekend Suppl.) 40/2 Even with a weakening franc, you should find a wide choice among gîtes and motorhomes. 2008 Indianapolis Star 11 Jan. (State ed.) d3/1 (advt.) You'll find hundreds of new motor homes, travel trailers, fifth wheels and fold downs from the industry's top manufacturers. motor hotel n. a hotel designed particularly for use by motorists; a motel. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel hotel1687 hotel garni1744 lodgea1817 gasthof1832 temperance house1833 temperance hotel1837 railway hotel1839 palace hotel1844 parador1845 caravanserai1848 resort hotel1886 metropole1890 Ritz1900 trust house1902 apartment hotel1909 welfare hotel1915 motel1925 motor hotel1925 auto court1926 motor court1936 motor lodge1936 residential1940 botel1956 floatel1959 apartotel1965 motor inn1967 1925 Hotel Monthly Mar. 37/2 The Milestone Interstate Corporation..proposes to build and operate a chain of motor hotels between San Diego and Seattle, the hotels to have the name ‘Motel’. 1965 Punch 1 Dec. 798 They call themselves motor lodges, motor courts, motor hotels, even tourtels and autotels, but motel is the word that blisters the night sky of the American suburbs. 1991 M. Gray First Fifty (BNC) 92 The chances of seeing wildlife on a wildlife trail are about as good as seeing Frank Sinatra play a gig at The Milton Motor Hotel in Fort William. motor house n. now historical a garage. ΚΠ 1902 D. Salomons in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) vi. 84 A well-built motor-house should cost nothing in the up~keep. 1995 R. Fellows Edwardian Archit. iv. 82/1 To one side there would be a courtyard..with..stables, generator room and motor house grouped around it. motor inn n. = motor hotel n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel hotel1687 hotel garni1744 lodgea1817 gasthof1832 temperance house1833 temperance hotel1837 railway hotel1839 palace hotel1844 parador1845 caravanserai1848 resort hotel1886 metropole1890 Ritz1900 trust house1902 apartment hotel1909 welfare hotel1915 motel1925 motor hotel1925 auto court1926 motor court1936 motor lodge1936 residential1940 botel1956 floatel1959 apartotel1965 motor inn1967 1967 Time 21 Apr. 25 46 restaurants and six motor inns. 1988 J. Hersey in Paris Rev. Summer 113 Surveillance of Mildred Deming reported that at 23.15 p.m...subject Bradford had checked in along with subject Deming at Moontop Motor Inn. motor lodge n. a motel. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel hotel1687 hotel garni1744 lodgea1817 gasthof1832 temperance house1833 temperance hotel1837 railway hotel1839 palace hotel1844 parador1845 caravanserai1848 resort hotel1886 metropole1890 Ritz1900 trust house1902 apartment hotel1909 welfare hotel1915 motel1925 motor hotel1925 auto court1926 motor court1936 motor lodge1936 residential1940 botel1956 floatel1959 apartotel1965 motor inn1967 1936 Pop. Mech. 66 120a/2 Make a trip and try living in a motor lodge—you'll be as comfortable and find it almost as cheap as staying at home! 1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl i. xv. 247 The motor lodge was called Romanz and was set among pine trees on a rise beside the autobahn. motor-mad adj. exhibiting enthusiasm or desire for motor cars. ΚΠ 1906 (title of film) Motor mad. 1922 W. J. Locke Tale of Triona xxvi. 292 England ran motor-mad that summer. motor-mate n. now rare a person who attends to the motor of an airship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > crew of aircraft or spacecraft > member of crew > with specific duties navigator1784 motor-mate1928 flight engineer1938 loadmaster1961 nav1961 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xxii. 411 One of the motor-mates of the amidships gondola raised the black curtain. motor octane number n. Oil Industry an octane number as determined by the motor method of the American Society for Testing and Materials, used chiefly for high engine speeds and loads; abbreviated MON. ΚΠ 1952 ASTM Man. Engine Test Methods for rating Fuels 7/2 The Motor octane number of a fuel is determined by comparing its knocking tendency with those for blends of the reference fuels of known octane number at 900 rpm. 1967 Statistician 17 151 Two methods which are much employed are the research octane number (RON) and the motor octane number (MON). 1979 Chem. Week (Nexis) 28 Mar. 42 The product is a branched material with good octane... It is not ‘sensitive’; its more-demanding motor octane number is quite close to its research octane number. 2002 Hydrocarbon Processing (Nexis) 1 Nov. 86 Alkylate has ideal gasoline properties such as: high research and motor octane numbers, low Reid vapor pressure (Rvp), and no aromatics, olefins or sulfur. motor-paced adj. Cycling of, relating to, or designating a race in which a pacemaking motorcycle is used to provide a slipstream for the cyclist. ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron. 31 July 6/6 The smash at Berlin on the occasion of an hour's race between motor-paced cyclists resulted in the death of six spectators and the injury of a very large number of others. 1985 F. Westell & K. Evans Cycle Racing 68/2 Motor-paced racing..is a code apart. motor park n. Brit. /ˈməʊtə pɑːk/ , U.S. /ˈmoʊdər ˌpɑrk/ , West African English /ˈmoto ˌpak/ (a) a car park (now chiefly West African); (b) U.S. a motel, a motor camp (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > a parking place > a car-park park1916 motor park1925 car park1926 parkade1937 1925 Times 14 Apr. 8/5 The Automobile Association..has put forward a scheme for the construction of motor parks below ground. 1939 New Yorker 14 Oct. 72 The usual phrase for cabin colonies in California is ‘auto court’; ‘motor park’, perhaps copied from ‘trail park’. 1972 C. Achebe Girls at War 60 Everybody, even a motor-park tout, knows what school fees are for. motor pool n. (a) originally U.S. Military, an area where motor vehicles are parked, repaired, and made available for use; (b) a fleet of cars, held by a particular organization or body, from which a vehicle or vehicles can be selected as required. ΚΠ 1943 R. Ingersoll Battle is Pay-off i. iv. 36 There were no vehicles parked, no motor pool, no messengers coming and going. 1973 A. Mann Tiara x. 91 Four or five are in the motor pool for the use of Vatican people on official journeys. 1998 R. Ray Certain Age 151 They weren't from the motor pool in town. They were proper Kwik-Fit stickers. motor rally n. = rally n.³ ΚΠ 1932 Radio Times 29 July 267/1 Some of the big motoring events of the year—the Ulster Motor Rally, [etc.]. 2000 Northern Echo (Electronic ed.) 14 Feb. Many will ask whether it was an accident waiting to happen given the proximity of spectators to the action at motor rallies. motor rallying n. the sport of competing in motor rallies. ΚΠ 1957 Times 26 Feb. 5/7 Motor rallying is one of the more accessible forms of adventure for ordinary people. 1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying 9 The facts demonstrate that motor rallying is one of Britain's fastest-growing and biggest participant sports. 1998 Daily Mail (Electronic ed.) 10 June Two years ago, best-selling romantic novelist Rosie Thomas..embarked on an energetic round of scuba diving, heli-skiing and motor rallying. motor-sailer n. a boat equipped with both sails and an engine. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > with sails motor-sailer1934 1934 Yachting Jan. 39 A consideration of the motor-sailer. 1971 J. R. L. Anderson Reckoning in Ice vi. 111 His boat was what is called a motor-sailer, which generally means..more engine than sail. 1990 Small Boat Jrnl. Jan. 21/2 To some, the Nimble 25 may look like an ocean-crossing motorsailer. It's not. It is a coastal sailboat with enclosed steering. motor-school n. a driving school. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > driving school driving school1901 motor-school1909 1909 Chambers's Jrnl. June 342/1 The..gentleman..is now getting his country grooms trained at a motor-school. 1989 E. Chisnall Bell in Tree (BNC) 125 Oh God! A Motor-School Car. It's full of drivers learning no' tae stop. motor spirit n. fuel for a motor vehicle, petrol. ΚΠ 1908 Westm. Gaz. 23 July 4/2 The Anglo-American Oil Company announce that they have been honoured by a warrant of appointment as purveyors of motor-spirit to his Majesty the King. 1973 Times 17 Nov. 1/2 Britain's leading motor spirit suppliers are introducing their own controls on retail petrol sales. 2000 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Electronic ed.) 2 Oct. It is also pertinent to remember that diesel enjoys a marginal tax (0.9c per litre) against motor spirit (which is 48.1c per litre). motor-traction n. the operation of a vehicle by means of a motor. ΚΠ 1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 532 The Triumph of Motor-Traction. motor-van n. (a) a motor-driven van (see van n.³ 1a); (b) = motor home n. (see van n.³ 4a). ΚΠ 1898 Daily News 2 Apr. 2/6 The Post Office and Motor Vans.—A motor van service for the conveyance of the mails. 1927 Daily Tel. 10 May 6 Fatally injured by being knocked down by a motor-van of the Flying Squad. 1977 Age (Melbourne) 18 Jan. (Advts. Suppl.) Choose a motorvan, motel or Fly/Drive Ansett Airlines holiday. 1990 A. Maidment I remember, I Remember (BNC) 112 The shed..was in reality the body from an old motor-van, for on the sides..was the legend..Mineral Water Manufacturers. motor vehicle n. a road vehicle powered by an engine (usually an internal combustion engine). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] buggy1888 motor vehicle1890 motor carriage1894 autocar1895 jam jar1895 motor car1895 car1896 traction1896 motor1899 bubble1901 machine1901 Lizzie1913 buzz-wagon1914 road car1914 short1914 scooter1917 buzz-box1920 ride1930 drag1935 bus1939 wagon1955 wheels1959 sheen1968 low rider1974 scoot1977 1890 J. W. Quinn U.S. Patent 431,993 I..have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Motor-Vehicles. 1937 Discovery July 194/2 The noise from motor vehicles. 1994 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Aug. d8/1 Motor-vehicle exhaust causes substantially more pollution than cigarettes. motor-voter n. U.S. attributive designating any of various laws proposed or introduced to increase the numbers of citizens registering to vote by allowing them to register while applying for a driving licence, esp. the National Voter Registration Act of May 1993, which provided for this among other extensions to registration facilities. ΚΠ 1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 14 June v. 3/2 In California, Assemblyman Tom Bates..has introduced a bill providing for DMV to provide postcard registration forms to all driver's license applicants. (But Gov. George Deukmejian vetoed a similar ‘motor voter’ bill last year.) 1993 Rolling Stone 8 July 18/1 Otherwise known as the motor-voter bill, the act [sc. the National Voter Registration Act] will enable citizens to register to vote while getting driver's licenses, while enlisting in the armed services or by mail. 2000 Nation 4 Dec. 8/1 The easing of restrictions on registration (judicial enforcement of the ‘motor-voter’ law). motor-wind n. Photography a facility on a camera for automatically winding and rewinding a film. ΚΠ 1979 Wall St. Jrnl. (Nexis) 31 Jan. 24/5 The new Pentax System 10..features interchangeable lenses, lens filters and a motor wind—which permits the photographer to take a rapid sequence of pictures. 2000 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) (Nexis) 25 June 1 e The joke is that pretty soon we'll have a one-time-use camera that has motor-wind, automatic zoom, red-eye reduction and everything else. C2. Compounds of the adjective (chiefly in sense B. 1). motor area n. any region of the central nervous system involved in the control of movement; esp. the motor cortex. ΚΠ 1876 Philos. Trans. 1875 (Royal Soc.) 165 441 Destruction of motor areas—regions of the fissure of Rolando. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xxi. 283 The whole motor area seems affected. The suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 286 The rest of the [spinal] cord, however, and in particular the motor areas and motor roots, show no increase in size, showing that the number of muscle-fibres to be supplied does not stimulate the growth of the supplying cells. 1993 New Scientist 7 Aug. 38/1 In the monkey, the planning phase—when the brain calculates the direction the arm must move to reach the banana—seems to take place in parts of the cortex known as the supplementary motor area and the premotor cortex. motor cell n. (a) Physiology a motor neuron; (b) Botany any of several types of cell involved in plant movements, usually distinguished by the ability to undergo rapid changes in turgor and by relatively elastic walls. ΚΠ 1878 Proc. Royal Soc. 27 44 The ‘giant pyramids’, in their form and distribution, have the significance of motor cells. 1897 Bot. Gaz. 23 362 The folding of the walls of the motor cells of roots is doubtless due to the great resistance to their expansion offered by the peripheral layers. 1935 Science 30 Aug. 200/1 One would have to think that there are degrees of motor cell susceptibility [to poliomyelitis virus] depending upon location and involvement. 1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) i. 8 (caption) Below is seen the prominent mid-rib (keel) which is flanked on either side above by a row of motor cells. 1993 New Scientist 10 July 14/2 When their motor cells suddenly lose salts, water is drawn out by osmosis. (This) causes the motor cells to collapse and the leaf bends. 1996 O. Sacks Island of Colour-blind ii. 186 Spencer succeeded, after eight weeks, in inducing ‘a degenerative motor system disease’ associated with damage to the motor cells in the cerebral cortex and spinal cord. motor cortex n. the region of the cerebral cortex that controls movements of the skeletal musculature. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > cortex > parts of molecular layer1867 motor cortex1880 Wernicke's area1887 operculum1889 map1945 1880 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 171 56 Let us summarise for comparison the limits of the richly-developed motor cortex in each animal under consideration. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 61 The motor cortex might be sensitive as well as motor. 1942 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 135 736 Phenomenologically, the muscular reactions during a tonic-clonic response to electrical stimulation of the motor cortex have for a long time been recognized as analogous to those in Jacksonian or in grand-mal epilepsy. 1987 S. M. Stahl et al. Competitive Neurochem. vii. 99 Neurons in the caudal portion of the principal sulcus..are only one synapse removed from primary motor cortex. motor nerve n. an efferent nerve that innervates a muscle or other effector. ΚΠ 1823 C. Bell in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 113 300 The seventh is the auditory nerve, and the division of it, called portio dura, is the motor nerve of the face and eyelids. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 372/1 Those [sc. ganglia] which have connected with them both motor and sentient nerves. 1898 Mind 7 165 Nervous impulses pass..by a reflex path, to the motor nerves of the muscles that jerk my head away. 1933 Psychol. Abstr. 7 538/1 The relationship between stimulus intensity and duration in the motor nerve of the frog. 1994 N.Y. Times 11 Jan. c13/4 Scientists proposed that the structures jointly secrete a powerful information molecule able to tell surrounding cells whether they are destined to become part of the hind brain, the forebrain, motor nerves or other constituents of the nervous system. motor neuron n. a neuron of the central nervous system that (directly or indirectly) innervates a muscle or other effector; esp. (more fully somatic motor neuron) one that directly innervates a muscle. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve cell > types of nerve vesicle1839 brain cell1848 stellate cell1870 Purkinje cell1872 neuroblast1878 touch cell1878 Golgi('s) cell1892 memory cell1892 astrocyte1896 astroblast1897 motor neuron1897 cytochrome1898 stichochrome1899 monaxon1900 basket cell1901 relay neuron1903 internuncial neuron1906 sheath cell1906 motoneuron1908 adjustor1909 satellite1912 microglia1924 oligodendroglia1924 sympathicoblast1927 pituicyte1930 oligodendrocyte1932 sympathoblast1934 sympathogonia1934 interneuron1938 Renshaw cell1954 1897 C. S. Sherrington in Proc. Royal Soc. 61 221 The question of the independent excitability of the motor neuron. 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind iii. 69 Always beginning with a sensory neurone and ending with a motor neurone, this apparatus is called a reflex-arc. 1949 Science 22 July 97/2 Myotactic reflexes..are considered to be effected by the incoming afferent impulses exciting the somatic motor neurons directly without the intervention of interneurons. 1994 Time 28 Mar. 55/1 Dr. Halstead, who uses a motorized scooter instead of walking long distances, calls this ‘babying the motor neurons’. motor neuron disease n. any of several, often hereditary, diseases characterized by degeneration of motor neurons and progressive weakness and atrophy of muscles; abbreviated MND. ΚΠ 1933 W. R. Brain Dis. Nerv. Syst. ix. 497 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Synonyms: Progressive muscular atrophy; progressive bulbar palsy; motor neurone disease; chronic poliomyelitis. 1958 J. G. Greenfield et al. Neuropathol. ix. 545 The name amyotrophic lateral sclerosis..is more correct than the suggested alternative motor neurone disease, since degeneration is not confined to motor neurones. 1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxxiv. 53/2 Motor neurone disease may present with any combination of upper and lower motor neurone signs. 1990 Brain 113 305 We..studied a large series of cases with motor neuron disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; ALS) in which degeneration of the corticospinal tracts is particularly well seen. 1996 Pract. Gardening June 27/1 Jimmy suffered from motor neurone disease (MND), a progressive illness which eventually rendered him immobile. motor point n. Physiology and Medicine (a) a point in the motor cortex which, when stimulated electrically, produces the contraction of a specific voluntary muscle or group of muscles (now rare); (b) the point at which a motor nerve enters a muscle, over which an electric current applied to the skin will stimulate the muscle to contract. ΚΠ 1881 Science 2 175/1 I found the largest group of the largest cells in a place not yet indicated on any of the charts of the localizationists as an unquestionable motor point. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 171/2 Motor point, point at which a motor nerve enters a muscle, and over which an electrode is to be placed to effect contraction. 1931 Science 73 214/1 Through the investigations of Graham Brown and Sherrington it is known that cortical motor points do not yield fixed reactions. 1993 Men's Health July 65/1 To relieve pain, [acupuncture] needles are inserted into ‘motor points’, spots in the body where nerve enters muscle. 2001 Internal Med. 40 376 Motor point biopsies were performed from the biceps brachii muscles. motor protein n. Biochemistry a protein (usually an ATPase) that is involved in cell motility, typically by moving along a microfilament or other substrate. ΚΠ 1987 Ann. Rev. Cell Biol. 3 368 [The retrograde motor] may reach the terminal simply by diffusion, which is consistent with the seemingly large quantities of soluble motor proteins found in the axon. 1996 New Scientist 14 Sept. 44/2 Each microtubule is made up of tubulin molecules, stacked into rods which are joined together by dynein motor proteins and nexin linker proteins. 1997 Nature 2 Jan. 18 (heading) Mechanochemistry. A protein-making motor protein. motor region n. = motor area n. ΚΠ 1874 Proc. Royal Soc. 1873–4 22 231 The whole brain is regarded as divided into sensory and motor regions. 1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. iv. 4 This [parietal lobule] also forms part of the motor region. 1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xvi. 576 A horizontal groove, the sulcus limitans, running along the inner surface of the brain stem on either side, separates a dorsal sensory region from a ventral motor region. motor root n. the ventral root of a spinal nerve, containing axons of motor neurons; (also) any of several branches of cranial nerves consisting of motor fibres. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > parts of nerves > [noun] > root motor root1829 nerve root1853 1829 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 119 325 The connection between the motor root and the superior maxillary nerve proved to be only by cellular texture. 1840 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum viii. 387 There are thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves, each arising by two roots, an anterior or motor root, and a posterior or sensitive root. 1898 B. P. Colton Physiol. iii. 40 The dorsal root is often called the Sensory root, and the ventral the Motor root. 1973 Gray's Anat. (ed. 35) 1002/2 The motor nucleus of the trigeminal nerve gives rise to the fibres of the motor root. motor theory n. Psychology any of various psychological theories that state that muscular movements or other motor elements of the nervous system are necessary for perception, learning, memory, etc.; used esp. with reference to theories that maintain that the movements of articulation and the sensory feedback from these are essential for speech perception. ΚΠ 1888 Mind 13 520 This is no more explicable by the sensory than the motor theory. 1896 Mind 5 102 He employs the motor theory of attention very ingeniously to explain simple assimilation or recognition. 1903 Psychol. Rev. 10 49 The study of the bearing of such phenomena as I have described on the motor theory of such [spatial] perceptions. 1926 Psychol. Rev. 33 411 In this paper I propose to examine the motor theory of the ‘speech reactions’ of behaviorism from the standpoint of the disturbances of speech behavior in what is known as aphasia. 1996 Jrnl. Personality & Social Psychol. 71 874 Four multimethod studies probed the hypothesis, derived from the Zajonc-Markus motor theory of emotion, that facial recognition is enhanced by imitation of the faces. motor unit n. †(a) a neuron of the motor cortex (obsolete); (b) a single motor neuron and the muscle fibres which it innervates. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve cell > motor unit motor unit1890 1890 W. B. Lewis Text-bk. Mental Dis. i. 68 The above statements will indicate the wealth of communicating branches which these ‘motor units’ possess. 1925 E. G. T. Liddell & C. S. Sherrington in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 97 511 Styling as ‘motor-unit’ the motoneurone-axon and its adjunct muscle-fibres. 1970 J. G. Chusid Correlative Neuroanat. & Functional Neurol. (ed. 14) ii. 76/2 The motor unit is made up of the anterior horn cell of the spinal cord and the muscle group it innervates. 1993 Dance Connection Summer 57/2 The exercises cause the muscles involved to lengthen as they work. This is called eccentric muscle work. Eccentric muscle work requires full firing of all the motor units within the muscle. motor zone n. = motor area n. ΚΠ 1880 Mind 5 255 Large protions [of cortical substance] were removed, first in the so-called motor-zones, then in the posterior lobes. 1983 Clin. Neuropathol. 2 128 Electron microscopic examination revealed reoviruses in the glia cells of the damaged motor zone. 1993 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 328 145 In the caudal rhombencephalon, NAi [= noradrenaline-immunoreactive] neurons are located in the transition region between the ventromedial motor zone and the dorsolateral sensory zone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). motorv. Brit. /ˈməʊtə/, U.S. /ˈmoʊdər/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: motor n. Etymology: < motor n. 1. intransitive. Chiefly with adverb or prepositional phrase. a. To travel or drive in a motor vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle > in a motor car mote1883 motor1895 auto1903 automobile1924 1895 F. R. Simms Let. in Autocar 21 Dec. 92/1 I think it is nothing but right that the ‘iron horse’, like cycling, should also have its verb. I beg to suggest motor-touring, say motouring or motoring, the verb would thus be to motour (motor). Of course it might strike us as rather funny now, if we read in the paper ‘Lord Salisbury motored’ this afternoon from Downing Street, and arrived at Paddington Station at exactly six o'clock. 1898 Autocar 11 June 379 On May 12th my wife and I motored. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress viii. 103 I motored down with a boy I know. 1972 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 86/3 From Sidmouth I walked (though most people motor) to Salcombe Regis. 1990 J. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter (1991) ii. viii. 154 Gamblers and whoremongers motored down the boulevard, bisecting the column with their mocking Ferraris and cruel Porsches. b. To travel in a motor boat; to use the engine in a sailing boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > in specific type of craft to barge it1599 boat?1630 canoe1732 shallop1737 raft1741 scow1749 steam1832 yacht1836 screw1840 steamer1866 gondole1874 kayak1875 sail1898 tramp1899 motor-boat1903 barge1909 hover1962 power1964 motor1968 jet-ski1978 1968 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Singing Bird xiii. 147 ‘You don't deny you were motoring?’ Johnson kept his voice reasonable. ‘We used the engine..to South Rona and back. At Portree, we changed over to sail.’ 1971 P. M. Hubbard High Tide xiii. 134 There was no wind to sail with. I could motor down river and hope to pick up something of a sailing breeze outside. 1990 Times of Oman 17 May 12/1 Dr. Salm..blamed elements of the pollution..on small boat traders motoring across the strait from Iran. 2. transitive. To convey (a person, goods, etc.) in a motor vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > by wheeled vehicle > in a motor car run1701 motor1896 chauffeur1917 1896 Westm. Gaz. 10 Sept. 7/2 The cost of ‘motoring’ cotton to Manchester. 1926 Travel Nov. 29/1 I motored my wife into the city to visit some British friends. 1939 J. Colville Diary in Fringes of Power (1985) 20 My brother Philip..motored me to Trent Park. 1992 J. Cartwright Rise & Fall of Little Voice i. 11 He motored me home about a million miles an hour. 3. transitive. To traverse or cover (a specified distance) in a motor vehicle, etc.; to make (one's way) by motoring. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > traverse in specific vehicle gallop1590 coach1693 perambulate1865 motor1928 punt1985 1928 ‘S. S. Van Dine’ Greene Murder Case xii. 141 Vance and Ada and I motored the few blocks to 18, Broad Street. 1988 Bella 4 Apr. 11/2 In the Fifties and Sixties families motored their way to Skegness or Brighton. 1994 Denver Post 9 Jan. a12/2 An upgrade to Division 1 would mean that, instead of motoring 60 miles to Denver.., the women's basketball team might have to fly to Honolulu. 4. In extended use. a. intransitive. To move, travel, or proceed at a fast, steady speed. Frequently with along. ΚΠ 1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 131 If you go on motoring in, you'll get a awful surprise when you have to force land some day. 1976 J. Grant Skateboarding v. 43 You can also get into motoring along for the pleasure of it. 1996 S. King Desperation iii. iv. 462 Cynthia was right behind him, once again not even out of breath. The chick could motor, you had to give her that. b. intransitive. figurative. To improve, progress, or advance, esp. rapidly. ΚΠ 1975 Listener 27 Mar. 408/2 To borrow one of his favourite phrases, O'Sullivan is ‘really motoring’ at about 235 words a minute. 1986 Sunday Times 9 Feb. 51/5 The directors are buying enthusiastically. The shares are starting to motor. 2000 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 12 Sept. Growth has positively motored along in North America at a rate of 20 per cent, but this is now expected to slow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1447v.1895
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