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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mo•tor•ing (mō′tər ing),USA pronunciation n. - traveling in a car, esp. when considered as a recreation.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024mo•tor /ˈmoʊtɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a small engine, esp. an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, etc.:The motor won't start.
- Electricitya machine that changes electrical energy into mechanical energy:a little electric motor that burns out if it is overloaded.
adj. [before a noun] - of or relating to a motor.
- Transportof, by, or for motor vehicles or for motorists:a motor inn.
- Psychology, Physiologyof or relating to muscular movement:a motor response.
v. - Automotiveto ride in an automobile;
drive: [no object]They motored quietly into town.[~ + object]She motored them to the train station.
See -mot-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mo•tor (mō′tər),USA pronunciation n. - a comparatively small and powerful engine, esp. an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- any self-powered vehicle.
- a person or thing that imparts motion, esp. a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery.
- ElectricityAlso called electric motor. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.
- Businessmotors, stocks or bonds in automobile companies.
adj. - pertaining to or operated by a motor.
- Transportof, for, by, or pertaining to motor vehicles:motor freight.
- Automotivedesigned or for automobiles, their drivers, or their passengers:The hotel has a motor lobby in its parking garage for picking up and discharging passengers.
- causing or producing motion.
- [Physiol.]conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve.
- Psychology, Physiology Also, motoric. of, pertaining to, or involving muscular movement:a motor response; motor images.
v.i. - Automotiveto ride or travel in an automobile;
drive:They motored up the coast.
v.t. - British Terms, Automotive[Chiefly Brit.]to drive or transport by car:He motored his son to school.
- Latin mōtor mover, equivalent. to mō- (variant stem of movēre to move) + -tor -tor
- 1580–90
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: motor /ˈməʊtə/ n - the engine, esp an internal-combustion engine, of a vehicle
- (as modifier): a motor scooter
- Also called: electric motor a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy by means of the forces exerted on a current-carrying coil placed in a magnetic field
- any device that converts another form of energy into mechanical energy to produce motion
- chiefly Brit a car or other motor vehicle
- as modifier: motor spares
adj - producing or causing motion
- of or relating to nerves or neurons that carry impulses that cause muscles to contract
- of or relating to movement or to muscles that induce movement
vb - (intransitive) to travel by car
- (transitive) Brit to transport by car
- (intransitive) informal to move fast; make good progress
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin mōtor a mover, from movēre to move |