- a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- any self-powered vehicle.
- 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.
- a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.
- stocks or bonds in automobile companies.
- pertaining to or operated by a motor.
- of, for, by, or pertaining to motor vehicles: motor freight.
- designed 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.
- conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve.
- of, relating to, or involving muscular movement: a motor response; motor images.
- to ride or travel in an automobile; drive: They motored up the coast.
- to drive or transport by car: He motored his son to school.
- the engine, esp an internal-combustion engine, of a vehicle
- (as modifier)
- 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
- an indispensable part or player that moves a process or system along
- a car or other motor vehicle
- as modifier
- producing or causing motion
- physiol
- 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
- to travel by car
- to transport by car
- to move fast; make good progress
- to motivate
