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/mˈoʊtər/ Listen

noun

Motor n.

One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.

(Mach.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.

A motor car; an automobile. (archiac Colloq.)

adjective

Motorial, Motory, Motor adj. Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion.

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Etymology of 'Motor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Motor" Quotes from Famous Books

... minutes later when the continuous tooting of a horn told of the approach of another motor car along the crowded street. Then the ...

— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre

... dispositions of that section toward slavery, the root and mainspring of these attempts. Blows aimed at the agent were sure, regardless of the actor's intention, to glance and strike the principal. In spite of mobs then, and to a remarkable degree because of mobs, Abolitionism had become a powerful motor in revolutionizing public opinion in the free States ...

— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke

... with the happy youth of to-day, but I feel no sense of loss nor spirit of envy when they tell me—all young people are my friends—when they tell me of golf-links and automobile rides, or even the daring hint of airplanes. To the heart of youth the gasolene-motor or the thrill of the air-craft to-day is no more than the Indian pony and the uncertain chance of the crude old canoe on the clear waters of the Big Blue when Kansas City was a village and the Kansas prairies were in their ...

— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter

... minute," I said, beginning to think about it. "What's the gimmick? What kind of motor do you have in ...

— The Big Bounce • Walter S. Tevis

... December with an enormous mass meeting in the Belasco Theatre in Washington. On that quiet Sunday afternoon, as the President came through his gates for his afternoon drive, a passageway had to be opened for his motor car through the crowd of four thousand people who were blocking Madison Place in an effort to get inside the Belasco Theatre. Inside the building was packed to the rafters. The President saw squads of police ...

— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens

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