Word Finder - motor

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A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.

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A motor car, or automobile.

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Nice motor!

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A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force.

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Any protein capable of converting chemical energy into mechanical work.

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The controller or prime mover of the universe; God.

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The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".

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• kicker

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To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive.

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On Saturday we motored down to Plymouth.

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To move at a brisk pace.

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Sales were slow at first, but now things are really motoring.

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To leave.

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I gotta motor.

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Relating to the ability to move

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She has excellent motor skills.

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Relating to motor cars

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Motor insurance is expensive for youngsters.

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Propelled by an internal combustion engine (as opposed to a steam engine or turbine).

I found out where Byrne bought the motor home.

A motor home passed by, with California plates, only the open road of the entire country ahead of them.

When she caught up with a motor home going forty miles an hour, she found no place to pass.

It has a motor... an electric motor and he's on a narrow trail!

Some road motor services have been instituted.

How do you ditch a motor home in the middle of Kansas?

Industries include ship and boat building and fitting, and motor engineering.

The lid holds the motor, hence is pretty weighty.

Before he signed off, he added, "Keep your eyes peeled for a Pace Arrow Motor home with California plates."

I drove slowly around the circle to make sure the site previously occupied by the California motor home was indeed vacant.

There are an extensive mackerel and herring fishery, and motor engineering works.

In electric cranes a useful method is to arrange the connexions so that the lifting motor acts as a dynamo, and, driven by the energy of the falling load, generates a current which is converted into heat by being passed through resistances.

Our boy John Luke Grasso drives a motor home!

In subsequent years the motor industry attained considerable proportions.

The electric transmission of energy can be performed with an efficiency not reached by any other method, and the electric motor readily adapts itself to cranes.

In the second, or " braking off " method, the brake is automatically applied by a spring or weight, and is released either mechanically or, in the case of electric cranes, by the pull of a solenoid or magnet which is energized by the current passing through the motor.

When the motor starts the brake is released; when it stops, or the current ceases, the brake goes on.

In electric cranes the motor is connected to the barrel, either in a similar manner by spur gear or by worm gear.

Motor licenses issued in 1914-5 numbered 9,867, and 45,949 in 1919-20.

The great motor of the parallel effort in England was the Christian spirit; in France it was the enthusiasm of humanity which was associated with the revolutionary movement.

The chief industrial establishments are iron foundries, railway and motor engineering works, breweries, flour-mills, tanneries and manufactories of confectionery, artificial manure, &c. There is water communication by the Ouse with the Humber, and by the Foss Navigation to the N.E.

Thus the defects, whether of this secretion or of that, and again of motor activity, the state of the valvular junctions, the volume of the cavities, and their position in the abdomen, may be ascertained, and dealt with as far as may be; so that, although the fluctuations of chemical digestion are still very obscure, the application of remedies after a mere traditional routine is no longer excusable.

In 1905 and following years motor omnibuses (worked mostly by internal combustion engines) began to a large extent to supplant horse traction.

A long-standing cause of complaint on the part of the public has been the common refusal of cab-drivers to accept their legal fares, but, on the other hand, several attempts to introduce cabs with an automatic taximeter failed, until the introduction of motor cabs, of which a few had already been plying for some time when in 1907 a large number, provided with taximeters, were put into service.

The use of locomotives, motor cars and other vehicles on highways is regulated by acts of 1861-1903.

Especially constructed lighters, with motor power, were to play an important part in the disembarkations, a number of them having recently arrived from England.

There C are no important industries, except a few flour-mills, some glass works, iron foundries, a motor car factory, straw hat factories, and power-houses supplying electricity for lighting and for the numerous tramcars.

From the speed of this motor the number of commutations per second can be determined.

Internal communications include a railway about eight miles long from Valletta to Notabile; there are electric tramways and motor omnibus services in-several directions.

With Susa there is regular communication by steamer and motor car.

Motion is obtained from a continuous-current generator driven by an alternating motor with a very heavy fly-wheel, a combination known as the Ilgner transformer, which runs continuously with a constant draught on the generating station, the extremely variable demand of the winding engine during the acceleration period being met by the energy stored in the fly-wheel, which runs at a very high speed.

Dave's favorite hobby has always been riding motor cycles.

The drivers side taillight was replaced with the one from the scrapyard as was the back window wiper motor.

Where high speed lowering is not required it is usual to employ a reversing motor and keep it always in gear.

A dock-side crane unloading cargo with high lifts following one another in rapid succession will require a higher load factor than a workshop traveller with a very short lift and only a very occasional maximum load; and a traveller with a very long longitudinal travel will require a higher load factor for the travelling motor than for the lifting motor.

A very convenient rule is to allow one brake horse-power of motor for every to foottons of work done at the hook; this is equivalent to an efficiency of 661%, and is well on the safe side.

The motor in most common use for electric cranes is the series wound, continuous current motor, which has many advantages.

In addition to the brakes on the lifting gear of cranes it is found necessary, especially in quickrunning electric cranes, to provide a brake on the subsidiary motions, and also devices to stop the motor at the end of the lift or travel, so as to prevent over-running.

In order that only one motor may be used, and also that the load may be lifted by a single part of rope, various devices have been invented.

Nearly all recent advances in crane design are the result of the introduction of the electric motor.

Either a weight or a motor is used for making the movements of the mechanism required to effect the printing of the signals.

These currents are furnished by an alternator which transmits sine currents over the line and operates a motor at the distant end of the line, both machines running in synchronism.

At the receiving end of the circuit a shaft is coupled to the motor; this is provided with gearing which rotates four combining commutators and four type-wheels, which print the letters on the band of paper.

The motor is usually supported on a platform at the back of the instrument, its drivingwheel being connected to the shaft of the paper roller by means of a spirally wound steel band.

The power of response is seen most easily in the case of young growing organs, and the parts which show the motor mechanism are mainly the young growing cells.

We do not find their behaviour like that of the motor mechanism of an animal.

Another English company has constructed motor roads in the Liberian hinterland to connect centres of trade with the St Paul's river.

The rate at which work is done on a particular axle is measured by the product where T is the torque or turning moment exerted on the axle by the motor or mechanism applied to it for this purpose, and is the angular velocity of the axle in radians per second.

When the service is frequent enough to give a good power factor continuously, the steam locomotive cannot compete with the electric motor for the purpose of quick acceleration, because the motors applied to the axles of a train may for a short time absorb power from the central station to an extent far in excess of anything which a locomotive boiler can supply.

Electricity is applied through a separate locomotive attached to the head of the train, or through motor carriages attached either at one end or at both ends of the train, or by putting a motor on every axle and so utilizing the whole weight of the train for traction, all the motors being under a single control at the head of the train, or at any point of the train for emergency.