Definitions for motor

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motor mo·tor

Spelling: [moh-ter]

IPA: /ˈmoʊ tər/

Motor is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in motor (moort).

Definitions for motor

noun

1. a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
2. any self-powered vehicle.
3. a person or thing that imparts motion, especially a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery.
4. Also called electric motor. Electricity. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.
5. motors, stocks or bonds in automobile companies.

adjective

1. pertaining to or operated by a motor.
2. of, for, by, or pertaining to motor vehicles:
3. designed or for automobiles, their drivers, or their passengers:
4. causing or producing motion.
5. Physiology. conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve.
6. Psychology, Physiology.. Also, motoric. of, relating to, or involving muscular movement:

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly British. to drive or transport by car:

verb (used without object)

1. to ride or travel in an automobile; drive:

Origin of motor

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

Examples for motor

On Model B a Holmes rotary 7-cylinder motor of 4x4-inch bore and stroke is used.

Much of the efficiency of the motor is due to the form and gearing of the propeller.

They can hear the sound of his boat's motor, growing louder as it comes over the horizon.

A few years only back, every Carolinian rode to town, and the motor was unknown.

He was initially with a group that traveled by motor vehicles, but has spent the past two decades with a horse at his helm.

If the machine is to be kept afloat the motor must be kept moving.

But if the outness of LGBT Americans is indeed the motor for social change, then there is certainly still cause for concern.

For example, there is neither an intake or exhaust manifold on the motor.

The turbulent waters caused one of his oars to crack, which—without a motor or a sail—can be severely detrimental to his voyage.

“I would build a motor car for the great multitude,” he said.