motor

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1. motor - Noun

2. motor - Adjective

3. motor - Verb

4. motor - Adjective Satellite

5. Motor - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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.

Alt. of Motorial

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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. Lewis Mumford

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master. Francis Fukuyama

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. But thank God it's a lot safer now. Murray Walker

There are only three sports bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering all the rest are merely games. Ernest Hemingway

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. George Bernard Shaw

There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. Umberto Eco

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