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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

... of an experiment he was making—quite an everyday one, of course, for there were at least three men present to whom he wasn't going to give away clues prematurely. An experiment on the motor biallaxis ...

— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston

... of his stay he met her coming out of school, and took her to tea in the town. Then he had a motor-car ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

... the country. We wanted sleepers, rails, and locomotives for the railway; pipes, pumps, and other materials for the water-supply; waggons, motor-lorries and light-cars for transport purposes; sand-carts, cacolets, and ambulances for the R.A.M.C.; and, with the exception of most kinds ...

— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett

... excellent; their sign-posts are numerous and, I believe, very circumstantial; at the railway stations are lists of the show places in the neighbourhood; the telephone is general. But there are strange failings. The roads, for example, are often very bad, although so many motor-cars exist. Even in Tokio the puddles and mud are abominable. There is no fixed rule to force rickshaw men to carry bells. There is no rule of the road at all, so that the driver of a vehicle must be doubly alert, having ...

— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas

... July—it was now late September—when she, Enid Crofton, had had to think of making a new home, Beechfield had seemed to her the ideal place. If only she could hear of a house to let there! And by rare good chance there had been such a house—The Trellis House! A friend had lent her a motor, and she had gone down to look at it one August afternoon, and there and then had decided to take it. It was so exactly what she wanted—a delightful, old, cottagy place, yet with all modern conveniences, lacking, alas! only ...

— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

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