Definition of motor in English:

motor

noun ˈməʊtəˈmoʊdər

1A machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for another device with moving parts.
发动机，马达；内燃机；电动机
these electric motors are highly reliable
the sander has a smooth and powerful 520 watt motor
Example sentencesExamples
- Surges can also be generated within the home by motors and other electrical devices.
- Her pace quickened as she heard the motor of a nearby automobile turn on.
- These cars have internal combustion gasoline engines coupled with electric motors that are powered by batteries.
- Electric motors turn electricity into motion.
- It was abandoned and scrapped in 1918, after mining decreased and electric motors supplanted steam boilers at the mill.
- Electric motors have only one moving part and require little maintenance.
- Small motors are built into computers, copiers, and fax machines.
- The vehicle was intended primarily to be powered by an electric motor.
- In February, 2001, hydraulic rams and electric motors that open the bridge will be installed.
- Most of the arguments in favour of the internal combustion engine and against the steam engine and the electric motor are technological or economic in nature.
- This is an excellent option if you are looking for something like a cooling fan or a windshield wiper motor.
- Electricity powers the electric motor, which in turn propels the vehicle.
- Rather unnecessarily, he apologises for the lack of wind that forces us to use the motor.
- Their subject of focus is the instabilities created when air and liquid mix under pressure - as in the combustion chamber of a diesel motor or rocket engine.
- As the authors discuss in the preface it would be difficult to envision agriculture without electric motors and other electrical devices.
- Faraday fooled around with wires and magnets and batteries, making the first electric motors and dynamos.
- Instead, an electric motor powered by the hydrogen fuel cells turns the front wheels.
- It gets a boost from electric motors to propel the vehicle at low speeds, when the engine is least efficient.
- The steam engine had symbolized the First Industrial Revolution and the electric motor and internal combustion engine the Second.
- Instead of an engine, a stack of fuel cells and an electric motor will supply power - but you won't even see them.
- The lightweight device, powered by an electric motor, gently simulates the rocking movements normally provided by mum or dad.
- Hybrid vehicles combine an electric motor with a gasoline engine to deliver above-average gas mileage.
- There has also been an increase in organized theft of small outboard motors.
Synonyms
apparatus, appliance, instrument, tool, utensil, device, unit, contraption, contrivance, gadget, mechanism, engine, lever, pulley
1. 1.1 A source of power, energy, or motive force.
  原动力
  hormones are the motor of the sexual functions
  激素是性功能的原动力。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Atomic force microscopy and optical traps are used to probe cellular and subcellular forces, such as those of kinesin motors.
  In Schumpeter's original explanation, entrepreneurship was seen as the motor of innovation.
  Molecular motors generate force and motion by continually binding and breaking down energy-releasing molecules at a rate of about 100 molecules per second.
  Here we present a more detailed analysis of contractile force generation in a cell that lacks cytoskeletal protein motors.
  Education is identified as a motor of change, yet we are not told that it operates differently for the five groups or why this should be the case.
  For example, the force generation by molecular motors has been studied as well as the mechanical properties of biopolymers.
2British informal A car.
we drove out in my motor
Example sentencesExamples
- One can only respond enthusiastically to the idea that the compact, prestige Beemer represents a hot motor among people in their 70s.
- The motor vehicle driver should always allow at least a half-car-width between the bike and the motor.
- Otherwise, many people don't have a clue as to what sort of motors these Maseratis are.
- One or two car owners found their motors submerged as the waters rushed in - despite signs warning that the car park was flooded.
- The car fan bought the motor for £5,000 three years ago.
- Together since 1951, Peugeot and Pininfarina have created some of the most stylish mass-market motors of all time.
- Car thefts have dropped in Basildon after police deployed decoy motors which catch crooks in the way a Venus fly trap plant catches insects.
- New Euro-rules could force older cars off garage forecourts, making a bargain motor harder to find.
Synonyms
motor car, automobile, machine

adjective ˈməʊtəˈmoʊdər

1British attributive Driven by a motor.
〈主英〉机动的
a motor van
Example sentencesExamples
- During the summer months the harbourmaster is responsible for more than 2000 moorings and has to deal with hundreds of day-sailors, big yachts and motor cruisers from all over Europe.
- Out at sea a ‘Laguna Cruises' motor launch goes past us, with a full complement heading for the deep.
- When the business expanded with the move to a larger premises in Leinster Street, his mode of transport changed and a motor van was provided.
- But at Port Sudan, halfway down the Red Sea, the restrictions were eased, and for the small charge of two shillings we could board a motor launch to be ferried across the harbour and view the town.
- In 1901 we launched our first motor yacht, and do you know what it was?
- He has a 1915 steam roller and a 1935 motor roller of his own, which he takes to the summer shows.
1. 1.1 Relating to motor vehicles.
  （与）汽车（有关）的
  motor insurance
  汽车保险。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Three years ago the youngsters were trainees, with no qualifications - now they are qualified motor mechanics working at a range of local firms.
  His own fleet motor insurance has almost quadrupled in price, from €43,200 to €157,400 in the last three years.
  Anyone involved in historic motorsport in any country, on two or four wheels, including motor clubs, event organisers, media and businesses, is invited to submit nominations.
  For the last seven years, Johnson had worked as a self-employed motor mechanic, storing cars to use for spare parts.
  Previously he had sold milk and motor spare parts.
  The most expensive components of motoring are: financing the car, motor insurance and car tax.
  Pilot schemes have proved rather successful so far with one insurer reporting that 25% of motor theft claims had been withdrawn since it had begun using the software.
  Now they are increasingly being trained as saleswomen and motor mechanics.
  But no visit to Detroit's motor show would be the same without taking a peek at some of the more outlandish designs which are, unfortunately, never intended to go into general production.
  William Henry Bowker was a Blackburn grocer, but after learning to drive for the army during the First World War he seized the opportunities offered by the new age of motor transport and started a car dealership.
  Traffic incidents included 15 motor accidents, 30 cases of traffic obstruction and 16 illegally parked cars.
  Many older drivers resent the high cost of motor insurance - especially if they have never had an accident and do not use their cars very much.
  Originally from Leeds, where he ran his own motor mechanics business, he retired with his wife to Skelton more than 20 years ago and continues regularly to cycle round the roads near his home.
  The link-up helped lift the gloom over the motor industry caused by the ending of car production at Luton, where many workers left the factory for the last time yesterday feeling angry and disappointed.
  The local Rotary Club held a motor show at the weekend, nine years after the last event.
  If successful, classes will be enhanced with new courses to give students trade skills in motor maintenance or plumbing, and tempt high fliers with business administration or sales training.
  He eventually moved to the Daily Herald, where he made his name as a motoring and motor sports commentator, and later worked for the BBC.
  From now, the motor industry cannot impose rules that restrict competition between dealers and service centres or stop them representing other manufacturers without permission.
  After more than 50 years in the motor trade Geoff Catlow is gearing up to enjoy his retirement.
  However, they spent the least on petrol, diesel and other motor oils at £11.00 a week, compared to a UK average of £14.70.
2attributive Giving or producing motion or action.
原动的，引起运动的
demand is the principle motor force governing economic activity
需求是支配经济活动的主要推动力。
Example sentencesExamples
- But the working class still exists and it will be the motor force of the transformation of society.
- It's being driven by the fact that creativity has become the economic motor force.
- These are some of the reasons why America has been the motor economy and why we owe Clinton and Greenspan, in these respects, so much.
- Germany is accustomed to thinking of itself as the motor force of European recovery rather than what it has become in recent times.
Synonyms
kinetic, driving, impelling, propelling, propulsive, operative, moving
1. 2.1Physiology Relating to muscular movement or the nerves activating it.
  〔生理〕（与）肌肉运动（有关）的；（与）运动神经（有关）的
  the motor functions of each hand
  每只手的运动功能。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The nerve damage affects sensory, motor, and autonomic function and progressively leads to impairments and disability.
  Eleven of the 13 patients initially presented with sensory nerve symptoms, motor peripheral nerve symptoms, or both.
  Generally, the left side of the brain controls the motor movements of the right side of the body, and vice versa.
  In the muscular dystrophies pharyngeal motor function is usually only moderately affected.
  Her higher functions, cranial nerve examination, and motor and sensory examinations were all within normal limits.

verb ˈməʊtəˈmoʊdər

1no object, with adverbial of direction Travel in a motor vehicle.
（与）汽车（有关）的
they motored north up the M6
他们乘车沿M6公路北上。
Example sentencesExamples
- I fired it up effortlessly and proceeded to motor around the yard.
- I was motoring along, a little intimidated by the evil eye I was getting from taxi drivers, when the bus in front of me stopped to pick up passengers.
- Looking like fugitives from a bankrupt circus, the platoon slowly motored down a narrow muddy road to rejoin Charlie Company.
- Here I find myself writing to the Richmond News again, first about the fires on the dyke and now about motorists motoring through red lights at pedestrian walks.
- So she turns back around and the golf cart starts motoring down the mountain, as fast as its little golf cart motor can go.
- Love him or loathe him, he kept that dream he keeps banging on about alive this week when he motored off to Canberra in one from his collection of automobiles.
- A self-confessed ‘anorak’, he was indulging in his hobby of inking in all the B roads they have motored along over the years on a map he keeps specifically for that purpose.
- Yes, the Healey was the type of car that would sidle up suggestively to your wife's MG in the golf club car park and suggest motoring down to a discreet little hotel on the coast for the weekend.
- I was imagining yesterday what it would be like if those tanks were at San Francisco airport, motoring up Highway 101 into San Francisco, lobbing shells along the way.
- The Skyline Drive allows tourists to motor through the 105-mile stretch of paved road that winds along the crests of the mountains through the length of the park.
- Its tanks motored up the narrow road, tracks clattering on tarmac, firing directly into houses.
- Mac put his foot down and the truck moved through the gateway picking up speed as it motored down the dirt road.
- He was motoring slowly along in the thick traffic in April, 2002, when a police officer had him pull over.
- Bob, Richard, and I had motored from Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road in search of a mystery.
- As he turned to his buddies and laughed, I scurried into my car and motored away as fast as my little four-cylinder could carry me.
- After qualifying third Lehto moved to second at the first turn and quickly motored into the lead on the opening lap.
- If I remember rightly, she did eventually go on to pass her test, and is now motoring around quite happily.
Synonyms
hurtle, speed, career, shoot, streak, sweep, hare, fly, wing
1. 1.1informal Run or move as fast as possible.
  〈非正式〉尽快地跑；尽快地移动
  he had motored along to second base on a passed ball
  Example sentencesExamples
  She said thanks and proceeded to motor along to the lift while I did what I had to do on the floors.
  Silver Star really motored from half way and she got up to take second place two lengths behind the winner and it was a similar distance back to Moonbeam in third.
  He motors into the box and shoots over, just after the linesman has raised his flag for offside.
  ‘We flew early on and I was worrying the winning post would come too soon but he really motored over the last 100 yards,’ Spencer told BBC Sport.
  Armstrong followed his move a split second later, motoring around the others and up behind Beloki as if he were being winched out of a ditch.
  How was I supposed to know that his little legs could motor so fast?

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a person who imparts motion): from Latin, literally 'mover', based on movere 'to move'. The current sense of the noun dates from the mid 19th century.

In early use a motor was a person who imparted motion. It derives from a Latin word meaning ‘mover’, based on movere ‘to move’. The current sense of the noun dates from the mid 19th century.

Rhymes

bloater, boater, Botha, Dakota, doter, emoter, floater, gloater, iota, Kota, Minnesota, promoter, quota, rota, rotor, scoter, voter

Definition of motor in US English:

motor

nounˈmoʊdərˈmōdər

1A machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts.
发动机，马达；内燃机；电动机
Example sentencesExamples
- Faraday fooled around with wires and magnets and batteries, making the first electric motors and dynamos.
- Most of the arguments in favour of the internal combustion engine and against the steam engine and the electric motor are technological or economic in nature.
- Electric motors have only one moving part and require little maintenance.
- Instead of an engine, a stack of fuel cells and an electric motor will supply power - but you won't even see them.
- Electricity powers the electric motor, which in turn propels the vehicle.
- Small motors are built into computers, copiers, and fax machines.
- Instead, an electric motor powered by the hydrogen fuel cells turns the front wheels.
- Surges can also be generated within the home by motors and other electrical devices.
- In February, 2001, hydraulic rams and electric motors that open the bridge will be installed.
- Rather unnecessarily, he apologises for the lack of wind that forces us to use the motor.
- The steam engine had symbolized the First Industrial Revolution and the electric motor and internal combustion engine the Second.
- It gets a boost from electric motors to propel the vehicle at low speeds, when the engine is least efficient.
- It was abandoned and scrapped in 1918, after mining decreased and electric motors supplanted steam boilers at the mill.
- Her pace quickened as she heard the motor of a nearby automobile turn on.
- There has also been an increase in organized theft of small outboard motors.
- Electric motors turn electricity into motion.
- The lightweight device, powered by an electric motor, gently simulates the rocking movements normally provided by mum or dad.
- The vehicle was intended primarily to be powered by an electric motor.
- Their subject of focus is the instabilities created when air and liquid mix under pressure - as in the combustion chamber of a diesel motor or rocket engine.
- As the authors discuss in the preface it would be difficult to envision agriculture without electric motors and other electrical devices.
- These cars have internal combustion gasoline engines coupled with electric motors that are powered by batteries.
- Hybrid vehicles combine an electric motor with a gasoline engine to deliver above-average gas mileage.
- This is an excellent option if you are looking for something like a cooling fan or a windshield wiper motor.
Synonyms
apparatus, appliance, instrument, tool, utensil, device, unit, contraption, contrivance, gadget, mechanism, engine, lever, pulley
1. 1.1 A source of power, energy, or motive force.
  原动力
  hormones are the motor of the sexual functions
  激素是性功能的原动力。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Here we present a more detailed analysis of contractile force generation in a cell that lacks cytoskeletal protein motors.
  For example, the force generation by molecular motors has been studied as well as the mechanical properties of biopolymers.
  Molecular motors generate force and motion by continually binding and breaking down energy-releasing molecules at a rate of about 100 molecules per second.
  In Schumpeter's original explanation, entrepreneurship was seen as the motor of innovation.
  Atomic force microscopy and optical traps are used to probe cellular and subcellular forces, such as those of kinesin motors.
  Education is identified as a motor of change, yet we are not told that it operates differently for the five groups or why this should be the case.

adjectiveˈmoʊdərˈmōdər

1Giving, imparting, or producing motion or action.
原动的，引起运动的
demand is the principle motor force governing economic activity
需求是支配经济活动的主要推动力。
Example sentencesExamples
- These are some of the reasons why America has been the motor economy and why we owe Clinton and Greenspan, in these respects, so much.
- But the working class still exists and it will be the motor force of the transformation of society.
- It's being driven by the fact that creativity has become the economic motor force.
- Germany is accustomed to thinking of itself as the motor force of European recovery rather than what it has become in recent times.
Synonyms
kinetic, driving, impelling, propelling, propulsive, operative, moving
1. 1.1Physiology Relating to muscular movement or the nerves activating it.
  〔生理〕（与）肌肉运动（有关）的；（与）运动神经（有关）的
  the motor functions of each hand
  每只手的运动功能。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Eleven of the 13 patients initially presented with sensory nerve symptoms, motor peripheral nerve symptoms, or both.
  Her higher functions, cranial nerve examination, and motor and sensory examinations were all within normal limits.
  Generally, the left side of the brain controls the motor movements of the right side of the body, and vice versa.
  The nerve damage affects sensory, motor, and autonomic function and progressively leads to impairments and disability.
  In the muscular dystrophies pharyngeal motor function is usually only moderately affected.
2British Driven by a motor.
〈主英〉机动的
Example sentencesExamples
- But at Port Sudan, halfway down the Red Sea, the restrictions were eased, and for the small charge of two shillings we could board a motor launch to be ferried across the harbour and view the town.
- Out at sea a ‘Laguna Cruises' motor launch goes past us, with a full complement heading for the deep.
- He has a 1915 steam roller and a 1935 motor roller of his own, which he takes to the summer shows.
- In 1901 we launched our first motor yacht, and do you know what it was?
- During the summer months the harbourmaster is responsible for more than 2000 moorings and has to deal with hundreds of day-sailors, big yachts and motor cruisers from all over Europe.
- When the business expanded with the move to a larger premises in Leinster Street, his mode of transport changed and a motor van was provided.
1. 2.1 Relating to motor vehicles.
  （与）汽车（有关）的
  a dominant figure in the world of motor sports
  Example sentencesExamples
  The local Rotary Club held a motor show at the weekend, nine years after the last event.
  His own fleet motor insurance has almost quadrupled in price, from €43,200 to €157,400 in the last three years.
  Many older drivers resent the high cost of motor insurance - especially if they have never had an accident and do not use their cars very much.
  William Henry Bowker was a Blackburn grocer, but after learning to drive for the army during the First World War he seized the opportunities offered by the new age of motor transport and started a car dealership.
  He eventually moved to the Daily Herald, where he made his name as a motoring and motor sports commentator, and later worked for the BBC.
  But no visit to Detroit's motor show would be the same without taking a peek at some of the more outlandish designs which are, unfortunately, never intended to go into general production.
  Pilot schemes have proved rather successful so far with one insurer reporting that 25% of motor theft claims had been withdrawn since it had begun using the software.
  Anyone involved in historic motorsport in any country, on two or four wheels, including motor clubs, event organisers, media and businesses, is invited to submit nominations.
  Originally from Leeds, where he ran his own motor mechanics business, he retired with his wife to Skelton more than 20 years ago and continues regularly to cycle round the roads near his home.
  However, they spent the least on petrol, diesel and other motor oils at £11.00 a week, compared to a UK average of £14.70.
  Now they are increasingly being trained as saleswomen and motor mechanics.
  Three years ago the youngsters were trainees, with no qualifications - now they are qualified motor mechanics working at a range of local firms.
  If successful, classes will be enhanced with new courses to give students trade skills in motor maintenance or plumbing, and tempt high fliers with business administration or sales training.
  From now, the motor industry cannot impose rules that restrict competition between dealers and service centres or stop them representing other manufacturers without permission.
  The link-up helped lift the gloom over the motor industry caused by the ending of car production at Luton, where many workers left the factory for the last time yesterday feeling angry and disappointed.
  The most expensive components of motoring are: financing the car, motor insurance and car tax.
  For the last seven years, Johnson had worked as a self-employed motor mechanic, storing cars to use for spare parts.
  After more than 50 years in the motor trade Geoff Catlow is gearing up to enjoy his retirement.
  Traffic incidents included 15 motor accidents, 30 cases of traffic obstruction and 16 illegally parked cars.
  Previously he had sold milk and motor spare parts.

verbˈmoʊdərˈmōdər

1no object, with adverbial of direction Travel in a motor vehicle, typically a car or a boat.
〈非正式，主英〉乘机动车（尤指汽车）旅行
we motored along a narrow road
we motored out of Breton Bay to begin our return trip down the Potomac
Example sentencesExamples
- Looking like fugitives from a bankrupt circus, the platoon slowly motored down a narrow muddy road to rejoin Charlie Company.
- A self-confessed ‘anorak’, he was indulging in his hobby of inking in all the B roads they have motored along over the years on a map he keeps specifically for that purpose.
- After qualifying third Lehto moved to second at the first turn and quickly motored into the lead on the opening lap.
- As he turned to his buddies and laughed, I scurried into my car and motored away as fast as my little four-cylinder could carry me.
- I was imagining yesterday what it would be like if those tanks were at San Francisco airport, motoring up Highway 101 into San Francisco, lobbing shells along the way.
- Here I find myself writing to the Richmond News again, first about the fires on the dyke and now about motorists motoring through red lights at pedestrian walks.
- Its tanks motored up the narrow road, tracks clattering on tarmac, firing directly into houses.
- Yes, the Healey was the type of car that would sidle up suggestively to your wife's MG in the golf club car park and suggest motoring down to a discreet little hotel on the coast for the weekend.
- I was motoring along, a little intimidated by the evil eye I was getting from taxi drivers, when the bus in front of me stopped to pick up passengers.
- So she turns back around and the golf cart starts motoring down the mountain, as fast as its little golf cart motor can go.
- He was motoring slowly along in the thick traffic in April, 2002, when a police officer had him pull over.
- Mac put his foot down and the truck moved through the gateway picking up speed as it motored down the dirt road.
- I fired it up effortlessly and proceeded to motor around the yard.
- Bob, Richard, and I had motored from Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road in search of a mystery.
- If I remember rightly, she did eventually go on to pass her test, and is now motoring around quite happily.
- Love him or loathe him, he kept that dream he keeps banging on about alive this week when he motored off to Canberra in one from his collection of automobiles.
- The Skyline Drive allows tourists to motor through the 105-mile stretch of paved road that winds along the crests of the mountains through the length of the park.
Synonyms
hurtle, speed, career, shoot, streak, sweep, hare, fly, wing
1. 1.1informal Run or move as fast as possible.
  〈非正式〉尽快地跑；尽快地移动
  he had motored along to second base on a passed ball
  Example sentencesExamples
  He motors into the box and shoots over, just after the linesman has raised his flag for offside.
  ‘We flew early on and I was worrying the winning post would come too soon but he really motored over the last 100 yards,’ Spencer told BBC Sport.
  She said thanks and proceeded to motor along to the lift while I did what I had to do on the floors.
  Silver Star really motored from half way and she got up to take second place two lengths behind the winner and it was a similar distance back to Moonbeam in third.
  How was I supposed to know that his little legs could motor so fast?
  Armstrong followed his move a split second later, motoring around the others and up behind Beloki as if he were being winched out of a ditch.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a person who imparts motion): from Latin, literally ‘mover’, based on movere ‘to move’. The current sense of the noun dates from the mid 19th century.

词汇	motor
释义	Definition of motor in English: motor noun ˈməʊtəˈmoʊdər 1A machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for another device with moving parts. 发动机，马达；内燃机；电动机 these electric motors are highly reliable the sander has a smooth and powerful 520 watt motor Example sentencesExamples Surges can also be generated within the home by motors and other electrical devices. Her pace quickened as she heard the motor of a nearby automobile turn on. These cars have internal combustion gasoline engines coupled with electric motors that are powered by batteries. Electric motors turn electricity into motion. It was abandoned and scrapped in 1918, after mining decreased and electric motors supplanted steam boilers at the mill. Electric motors have only one moving part and require little maintenance. Small motors are built into computers, copiers, and fax machines. The vehicle was intended primarily to be powered by an electric motor. In February, 2001, hydraulic rams and electric motors that open the bridge will be installed. Most of the arguments in favour of the internal combustion engine and against the steam engine and the electric motor are technological or economic in nature. This is an excellent option if you are looking for something like a cooling fan or a windshield wiper motor. Electricity powers the electric motor, which in turn propels the vehicle. Rather unnecessarily, he apologises for the lack of wind that forces us to use the motor. Their subject of focus is the instabilities created when air and liquid mix under pressure - as in the combustion chamber of a diesel motor or rocket engine. As the authors discuss in the preface it would be difficult to envision agriculture without electric motors and other electrical devices. Faraday fooled around with wires and magnets and batteries, making the first electric motors and dynamos. Instead, an electric motor powered by the hydrogen fuel cells turns the front wheels. It gets a boost from electric motors to propel the vehicle at low speeds, when the engine is least efficient. The steam engine had symbolized the First Industrial Revolution and the electric motor and internal combustion engine the Second. Instead of an engine, a stack of fuel cells and an electric motor will supply power - but you won't even see them. The lightweight device, powered by an electric motor, gently simulates the rocking movements normally provided by mum or dad. Hybrid vehicles combine an electric motor with a gasoline engine to deliver above-average gas mileage. There has also been an increase in organized theft of small outboard motors. Synonyms apparatus, appliance, instrument, tool, utensil, device, unit, contraption, contrivance, gadget, mechanism, engine, lever, pulley 1.1 A source of power, energy, or motive force. 原动力 hormones are the motor of the sexual functions 激素是性功能的原动力。 Example sentencesExamples Atomic force microscopy and optical traps are used to probe cellular and subcellular forces, such as those of kinesin motors. In Schumpeter's original explanation, entrepreneurship was seen as the motor of innovation. Molecular motors generate force and motion by continually binding and breaking down energy-releasing molecules at a rate of about 100 molecules per second. Here we present a more detailed analysis of contractile force generation in a cell that lacks cytoskeletal protein motors. Education is identified as a motor of change, yet we are not told that it operates differently for the five groups or why this should be the case. For example, the force generation by molecular motors has been studied as well as the mechanical properties of biopolymers. 2British informal A car. we drove out in my motor Example sentencesExamples One can only respond enthusiastically to the idea that the compact, prestige Beemer represents a hot motor among people in their 70s. The motor vehicle driver should always allow at least a half-car-width between the bike and the motor. Otherwise, many people don't have a clue as to what sort of motors these Maseratis are. One or two car owners found their motors submerged as the waters rushed in - despite signs warning that the car park was flooded. The car fan bought the motor for £5,000 three years ago. Together since 1951, Peugeot and Pininfarina have created some of the most stylish mass-market motors of all time. Car thefts have dropped in Basildon after police deployed decoy motors which catch crooks in the way a Venus fly trap plant catches insects. New Euro-rules could force older cars off garage forecourts, making a bargain motor harder to find. Synonyms motor car, automobile, machine adjective ˈməʊtəˈmoʊdər 1British attributive Driven by a motor. 〈主英〉机动的 a motor van Example sentencesExamples During the summer months the harbourmaster is responsible for more than 2000 moorings and has to deal with hundreds of day-sailors, big yachts and motor cruisers from all over Europe. Out at sea a ‘Laguna Cruises' motor launch goes past us, with a full complement heading for the deep. When the business expanded with the move to a larger premises in Leinster Street, his mode of transport changed and a motor van was provided. But at Port Sudan, halfway down the Red Sea, the restrictions were eased, and for the small charge of two shillings we could board a motor launch to be ferried across the harbour and view the town. In 1901 we launched our first motor yacht, and do you know what it was? He has a 1915 steam roller and a 1935 motor roller of his own, which he takes to the summer shows. 1.1 Relating to motor vehicles. （与）汽车（有关）的 motor insurance 汽车保险。 Example sentencesExamples Three years ago the youngsters were trainees, with no qualifications - now they are qualified motor mechanics working at a range of local firms. His own fleet motor insurance has almost quadrupled in price, from €43,200 to €157,400 in the last three years. Anyone involved in historic motorsport in any country, on two or four wheels, including motor clubs, event organisers, media and businesses, is invited to submit nominations. For the last seven years, Johnson had worked as a self-employed motor mechanic, storing cars to use for spare parts. Previously he had sold milk and motor spare parts. The most expensive components of motoring are: financing the car, motor insurance and car tax. Pilot schemes have proved rather successful so far with one insurer reporting that 25% of motor theft claims had been withdrawn since it had begun using the software. Now they are increasingly being trained as saleswomen and motor mechanics. But no visit to Detroit's motor show would be the same without taking a peek at some of the more outlandish designs which are, unfortunately, never intended to go into general production. William Henry Bowker was a Blackburn grocer, but after learning to drive for the army during the First World War he seized the opportunities offered by the new age of motor transport and started a car dealership. Traffic incidents included 15 motor accidents, 30 cases of traffic obstruction and 16 illegally parked cars. Many older drivers resent the high cost of motor insurance - especially if they have never had an accident and do not use their cars very much. Originally from Leeds, where he ran his own motor mechanics business, he retired with his wife to Skelton more than 20 years ago and continues regularly to cycle round the roads near his home. The link-up helped lift the gloom over the motor industry caused by the ending of car production at Luton, where many workers left the factory for the last time yesterday feeling angry and disappointed. The local Rotary Club held a motor show at the weekend, nine years after the last event. If successful, classes will be enhanced with new courses to give students trade skills in motor maintenance or plumbing, and tempt high fliers with business administration or sales training. He eventually moved to the Daily Herald, where he made his name as a motoring and motor sports commentator, and later worked for the BBC. From now, the motor industry cannot impose rules that restrict competition between dealers and service centres or stop them representing other manufacturers without permission. After more than 50 years in the motor trade Geoff Catlow is gearing up to enjoy his retirement. However, they spent the least on petrol, diesel and other motor oils at £11.00 a week, compared to a UK average of £14.70. 2attributive Giving or producing motion or action. 原动的，引起运动的 demand is the principle motor force governing economic activity 需求是支配经济活动的主要推动力。 Example sentencesExamples But the working class still exists and it will be the motor force of the transformation of society. It's being driven by the fact that creativity has become the economic motor force. These are some of the reasons why America has been the motor economy and why we owe Clinton and Greenspan, in these respects, so much. Germany is accustomed to thinking of itself as the motor force of European recovery rather than what it has become in recent times. Synonyms kinetic, driving, impelling, propelling, propulsive, operative, moving 2.1Physiology Relating to muscular movement or the nerves activating it. 〔生理〕（与）肌肉运动（有关）的；（与）运动神经（有关）的 the motor functions of each hand 每只手的运动功能。 Example sentencesExamples The nerve damage affects sensory, motor, and autonomic function and progressively leads to impairments and disability. Eleven of the 13 patients initially presented with sensory nerve symptoms, motor peripheral nerve symptoms, or both. Generally, the left side of the brain controls the motor movements of the right side of the body, and vice versa. In the muscular dystrophies pharyngeal motor function is usually only moderately affected. Her higher functions, cranial nerve examination, and motor and sensory examinations were all within normal limits. verb ˈməʊtəˈmoʊdər 1no object, with adverbial of direction Travel in a motor vehicle. （与）汽车（有关）的 they motored north up the M6 他们乘车沿M6公路北上。 Example sentencesExamples I fired it up effortlessly and proceeded to motor around the yard. I was motoring along, a little intimidated by the evil eye I was getting from taxi drivers, when the bus in front of me stopped to pick up passengers. Looking like fugitives from a bankrupt circus, the platoon slowly motored down a narrow muddy road to rejoin Charlie Company. Here I find myself writing to the Richmond News again, first about the fires on the dyke and now about motorists motoring through red lights at pedestrian walks. So she turns back around and the golf cart starts motoring down the mountain, as fast as its little golf cart motor can go. Love him or loathe him, he kept that dream he keeps banging on about alive this week when he motored off to Canberra in one from his collection of automobiles. A self-confessed ‘anorak’, he was indulging in his hobby of inking in all the B roads they have motored along over the years on a map he keeps specifically for that purpose. Yes, the Healey was the type of car that would sidle up suggestively to your wife's MG in the golf club car park and suggest motoring down to a discreet little hotel on the coast for the weekend. I was imagining yesterday what it would be like if those tanks were at San Francisco airport, motoring up Highway 101 into San Francisco, lobbing shells along the way. The Skyline Drive allows tourists to motor through the 105-mile stretch of paved road that winds along the crests of the mountains through the length of the park. Its tanks motored up the narrow road, tracks clattering on tarmac, firing directly into houses. Mac put his foot down and the truck moved through the gateway picking up speed as it motored down the dirt road. He was motoring slowly along in the thick traffic in April, 2002, when a police officer had him pull over. Bob, Richard, and I had motored from Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road in search of a mystery. As he turned to his buddies and laughed, I scurried into my car and motored away as fast as my little four-cylinder could carry me. After qualifying third Lehto moved to second at the first turn and quickly motored into the lead on the opening lap. If I remember rightly, she did eventually go on to pass her test, and is now motoring around quite happily. Synonyms hurtle, speed, career, shoot, streak, sweep, hare, fly, wing 1.1informal Run or move as fast as possible. 〈非正式〉尽快地跑；尽快地移动 he had motored along to second base on a passed ball Example sentencesExamples She said thanks and proceeded to motor along to the lift while I did what I had to do on the floors. Silver Star really motored from half way and she got up to take second place two lengths behind the winner and it was a similar distance back to Moonbeam in third. He motors into the box and shoots over, just after the linesman has raised his flag for offside. ‘We flew early on and I was worrying the winning post would come too soon but he really motored over the last 100 yards,’ Spencer told BBC Sport. Armstrong followed his move a split second later, motoring around the others and up behind Beloki as if he were being winched out of a ditch. How was I supposed to know that his little legs could motor so fast? Origin Late Middle English (denoting a person who imparts motion): from Latin, literally 'mover', based on movere 'to move'. The current sense of the noun dates from the mid 19th century. In early use a motor was a person who imparted motion. It derives from a Latin word meaning ‘mover’, based on movere ‘to move’. The current sense of the noun dates from the mid 19th century. Rhymes bloater, boater, Botha, Dakota, doter, emoter, floater, gloater, iota, Kota, Minnesota, promoter, quota, rota, rotor, scoter, voter Definition of motor in US English: motor nounˈmoʊdərˈmōdər 1A machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts. 发动机，马达；内燃机；电动机 Example sentencesExamples Faraday fooled around with wires and magnets and batteries, making the first electric motors and dynamos. Most of the arguments in favour of the internal combustion engine and against the steam engine and the electric motor are technological or economic in nature. Electric motors have only one moving part and require little maintenance. Instead of an engine, a stack of fuel cells and an electric motor will supply power - but you won't even see them. Electricity powers the electric motor, which in turn propels the vehicle. Small motors are built into computers, copiers, and fax machines. Instead, an electric motor powered by the hydrogen fuel cells turns the front wheels. Surges can also be generated within the home by motors and other electrical devices. In February, 2001, hydraulic rams and electric motors that open the bridge will be installed. Rather unnecessarily, he apologises for the lack of wind that forces us to use the motor. The steam engine had symbolized the First Industrial Revolution and the electric motor and internal combustion engine the Second. It gets a boost from electric motors to propel the vehicle at low speeds, when the engine is least efficient. It was abandoned and scrapped in 1918, after mining decreased and electric motors supplanted steam boilers at the mill. Her pace quickened as she heard the motor of a nearby automobile turn on. There has also been an increase in organized theft of small outboard motors. Electric motors turn electricity into motion. The lightweight device, powered by an electric motor, gently simulates the rocking movements normally provided by mum or dad. The vehicle was intended primarily to be powered by an electric motor. Their subject of focus is the instabilities created when air and liquid mix under pressure - as in the combustion chamber of a diesel motor or rocket engine. As the authors discuss in the preface it would be difficult to envision agriculture without electric motors and other electrical devices. These cars have internal combustion gasoline engines coupled with electric motors that are powered by batteries. Hybrid vehicles combine an electric motor with a gasoline engine to deliver above-average gas mileage. This is an excellent option if you are looking for something like a cooling fan or a windshield wiper motor. Synonyms apparatus, appliance, instrument, tool, utensil, device, unit, contraption, contrivance, gadget, mechanism, engine, lever, pulley 1.1 A source of power, energy, or motive force. 原动力 hormones are the motor of the sexual functions 激素是性功能的原动力。 Example sentencesExamples Here we present a more detailed analysis of contractile force generation in a cell that lacks cytoskeletal protein motors. For example, the force generation by molecular motors has been studied as well as the mechanical properties of biopolymers. Molecular motors generate force and motion by continually binding and breaking down energy-releasing molecules at a rate of about 100 molecules per second. In Schumpeter's original explanation, entrepreneurship was seen as the motor of innovation. Atomic force microscopy and optical traps are used to probe cellular and subcellular forces, such as those of kinesin motors. Education is identified as a motor of change, yet we are not told that it operates differently for the five groups or why this should be the case. adjectiveˈmoʊdərˈmōdər 1Giving, imparting, or producing motion or action. 原动的，引起运动的 demand is the principle motor force governing economic activity 需求是支配经济活动的主要推动力。 Example sentencesExamples These are some of the reasons why America has been the motor economy and why we owe Clinton and Greenspan, in these respects, so much. But the working class still exists and it will be the motor force of the transformation of society. It's being driven by the fact that creativity has become the economic motor force. Germany is accustomed to thinking of itself as the motor force of European recovery rather than what it has become in recent times. Synonyms kinetic, driving, impelling, propelling, propulsive, operative, moving 1.1Physiology Relating to muscular movement or the nerves activating it. 〔生理〕（与）肌肉运动（有关）的；（与）运动神经（有关）的 the motor functions of each hand 每只手的运动功能。 Example sentencesExamples Eleven of the 13 patients initially presented with sensory nerve symptoms, motor peripheral nerve symptoms, or both. Her higher functions, cranial nerve examination, and motor and sensory examinations were all within normal limits. Generally, the left side of the brain controls the motor movements of the right side of the body, and vice versa. The nerve damage affects sensory, motor, and autonomic function and progressively leads to impairments and disability. In the muscular dystrophies pharyngeal motor function is usually only moderately affected. 2British Driven by a motor. 〈主英〉机动的 Example sentencesExamples But at Port Sudan, halfway down the Red Sea, the restrictions were eased, and for the small charge of two shillings we could board a motor launch to be ferried across the harbour and view the town. Out at sea a ‘Laguna Cruises' motor launch goes past us, with a full complement heading for the deep. He has a 1915 steam roller and a 1935 motor roller of his own, which he takes to the summer shows. In 1901 we launched our first motor yacht, and do you know what it was? During the summer months the harbourmaster is responsible for more than 2000 moorings and has to deal with hundreds of day-sailors, big yachts and motor cruisers from all over Europe. When the business expanded with the move to a larger premises in Leinster Street, his mode of transport changed and a motor van was provided. 2.1 Relating to motor vehicles. （与）汽车（有关）的 a dominant figure in the world of motor sports Example sentencesExamples The local Rotary Club held a motor show at the weekend, nine years after the last event. His own fleet motor insurance has almost quadrupled in price, from €43,200 to €157,400 in the last three years. Many older drivers resent the high cost of motor insurance - especially if they have never had an accident and do not use their cars very much. William Henry Bowker was a Blackburn grocer, but after learning to drive for the army during the First World War he seized the opportunities offered by the new age of motor transport and started a car dealership. He eventually moved to the Daily Herald, where he made his name as a motoring and motor sports commentator, and later worked for the BBC. But no visit to Detroit's motor show would be the same without taking a peek at some of the more outlandish designs which are, unfortunately, never intended to go into general production. Pilot schemes have proved rather successful so far with one insurer reporting that 25% of motor theft claims had been withdrawn since it had begun using the software. Anyone involved in historic motorsport in any country, on two or four wheels, including motor clubs, event organisers, media and businesses, is invited to submit nominations. Originally from Leeds, where he ran his own motor mechanics business, he retired with his wife to Skelton more than 20 years ago and continues regularly to cycle round the roads near his home. However, they spent the least on petrol, diesel and other motor oils at £11.00 a week, compared to a UK average of £14.70. Now they are increasingly being trained as saleswomen and motor mechanics. Three years ago the youngsters were trainees, with no qualifications - now they are qualified motor mechanics working at a range of local firms. If successful, classes will be enhanced with new courses to give students trade skills in motor maintenance or plumbing, and tempt high fliers with business administration or sales training. From now, the motor industry cannot impose rules that restrict competition between dealers and service centres or stop them representing other manufacturers without permission. The link-up helped lift the gloom over the motor industry caused by the ending of car production at Luton, where many workers left the factory for the last time yesterday feeling angry and disappointed. The most expensive components of motoring are: financing the car, motor insurance and car tax. For the last seven years, Johnson had worked as a self-employed motor mechanic, storing cars to use for spare parts. After more than 50 years in the motor trade Geoff Catlow is gearing up to enjoy his retirement. Traffic incidents included 15 motor accidents, 30 cases of traffic obstruction and 16 illegally parked cars. Previously he had sold milk and motor spare parts. verbˈmoʊdərˈmōdər 1no object, with adverbial of direction Travel in a motor vehicle, typically a car or a boat. 〈非正式，主英〉乘机动车（尤指汽车）旅行 we motored along a narrow road we motored out of Breton Bay to begin our return trip down the Potomac Example sentencesExamples Looking like fugitives from a bankrupt circus, the platoon slowly motored down a narrow muddy road to rejoin Charlie Company. A self-confessed ‘anorak’, he was indulging in his hobby of inking in all the B roads they have motored along over the years on a map he keeps specifically for that purpose. After qualifying third Lehto moved to second at the first turn and quickly motored into the lead on the opening lap. As he turned to his buddies and laughed, I scurried into my car and motored away as fast as my little four-cylinder could carry me. I was imagining yesterday what it would be like if those tanks were at San Francisco airport, motoring up Highway 101 into San Francisco, lobbing shells along the way. Here I find myself writing to the Richmond News again, first about the fires on the dyke and now about motorists motoring through red lights at pedestrian walks. Its tanks motored up the narrow road, tracks clattering on tarmac, firing directly into houses. Yes, the Healey was the type of car that would sidle up suggestively to your wife's MG in the golf club car park and suggest motoring down to a discreet little hotel on the coast for the weekend. I was motoring along, a little intimidated by the evil eye I was getting from taxi drivers, when the bus in front of me stopped to pick up passengers. So she turns back around and the golf cart starts motoring down the mountain, as fast as its little golf cart motor can go. He was motoring slowly along in the thick traffic in April, 2002, when a police officer had him pull over. Mac put his foot down and the truck moved through the gateway picking up speed as it motored down the dirt road. I fired it up effortlessly and proceeded to motor around the yard. Bob, Richard, and I had motored from Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road in search of a mystery. If I remember rightly, she did eventually go on to pass her test, and is now motoring around quite happily. Love him or loathe him, he kept that dream he keeps banging on about alive this week when he motored off to Canberra in one from his collection of automobiles. The Skyline Drive allows tourists to motor through the 105-mile stretch of paved road that winds along the crests of the mountains through the length of the park. Synonyms hurtle, speed, career, shoot, streak, sweep, hare, fly, wing 1.1informal Run or move as fast as possible. 〈非正式〉尽快地跑；尽快地移动 he had motored along to second base on a passed ball Example sentencesExamples He motors into the box and shoots over, just after the linesman has raised his flag for offside. ‘We flew early on and I was worrying the winning post would come too soon but he really motored over the last 100 yards,’ Spencer told BBC Sport. She said thanks and proceeded to motor along to the lift while I did what I had to do on the floors. Silver Star really motored from half way and she got up to take second place two lengths behind the winner and it was a similar distance back to Moonbeam in third. How was I supposed to know that his little legs could motor so fast? Armstrong followed his move a split second later, motoring around the others and up behind Beloki as if he were being winched out of a ditch. Origin Late Middle English (denoting a person who imparts motion): from Latin, literally ‘mover’, based on movere ‘to move’. The current sense of the noun dates from the mid 19th century.
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