motor

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.

Also called electric motor.  Electricity. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.

motors, 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.

Physiology. conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve.

Psychology, Physiology. Also of, relating to, or involving muscular movement.

a motor response; motor images.

1. the engine, esp an internal-combustion engine, of a vehicle

2. ( 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

an indispensable part or player that moves a process or system along

1. a car or other motor vehicle

2. as modifier

   motor spares

producing or causing motion

physiol

1. of or relating to nerves or neurons that carry impulses that cause muscles to contract

2. of or relating to movement or to muscles that induce movement

A machine that uses energy, such as electric or chemical energy (as from burning a fuel), to produce mechanical motion.

See also engine