a comparatively small and powerful engine, esp. an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.

any self-powered vehicle.

a person or thing that imparts motion, esp. 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, motoric. of, pertaining to, or involving muscular movement

a motor response; motor images.

to ride or travel in an automobile; drive

They motored up the coast.

Chiefly British . to drive or transport by car

He motored his son to school.

noun

cylinder , diesel , generator , mechanism , piston , power train , transformer , turbine , [[what’s under the hoodnotes:engine is the more general term; motor is a special kind of enginean engine is a machine that converts potential energy into kinetic energy to provide motive force in order to do work; a motor is a small engine or a similar device powered by electricity]] , auto , automobile , buggy , car , device , drive , engine , instrument , machine , ride

verb

pilot , wheel