Word Finder - motors

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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.

There are extensive manufactures, including those of motors and cycles with their accessories, also papermills, breweries, &c., and the population is largely industrial.

Electric motors for barrel cranes are not essentially different from those used for other purposes, but in proportioning the sizes the intermittent output has to be taken into consideration.

The weight required to cause the downward motion is obtained either by means of the material which has to be transported to the bottom of the hill or by water ballast, while to aid and regulate the motion generally steam or electric motors are arranged to act on the main drums, round which the cable is passed with a sufficient number of turns to prevent slipping.

Motors may be applied to every axle in the train, and their individual torques adjusted to values suitable to the weights naturally carried by the several axles.

This perfection of distribution is practically attained in present-day practice by the multiple control system of operating an electric train, where motors are applied to a selected number of axles in the train, all of them being under the perfect control of the driver.

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.

In the years 1903 and 1904 petrol motors adapted for ploughing and other agricultural operations formed a prominent feature of the exhibits.

The Motors are now little more than a memory.

Again, as regards the distribution of the current, he took a leading part in the development of the three-wire system and the closed-circuit transformer, while electric traction had to thank him for the series-parallel method of working motors.

By adopting modern non-sparking motors there is but little danger of igniting explosive gas.

The principal manufactures are belting, woollens, tinners' hardware, iron and gasolene motors.

The pumps, placed close to the point where the water accumulates, may be worked by an engine on the surface by means of heavy reciprocating rods which pass down the shaft, or by underground motors driven by steam, compressed air or electricity.

These machines weigh from 20 to 22 cwt., and are mostly driven by electric motors of 25 up to 35 h.p. as a maximum.

In some instances electric motors have been substituted for compressed-air engines in such machines.

Where the load has to be hauled up a rising gradient, underground engines, driven by steam or compressed air or electric motors, are used.

Notable examples are found in the Rateau, Ser and Capell fans, and where an electric generating station is available electric motors can be advantageously used instead of steam.

In one instance the quantity of water required to keep down the dust in a mine raising 850 tons of coal in a single shift was 28.8 tons, apart from that required by the jets and motors.

In one of the best-known examples, the Zollern colliery in Westphalia, the Koepe system is used, the winding disk being driven by two motors of 1200 H.P. each on the same shaft.

Modern screening and washing plants, especially when the small coal forms a considerable proportion of the output, are large and costly, requiring machinery of a capacity of ioo to 150 tons per hour, which absorbs 350 to 400 H.P. In this, as in many other cases, electric motors supplied from a central station are now preferred to separate steam-engines.

The name has been applied generally to all kinds of instruments used in the measurement of a force, as for example electric dynamometers, but the term specially denotes apparatus used in connexion with the measurement of work, or in the measurement of the horse-power of engines and motors.

For these reasons alcohol has not been used to any extent in petrol motors.

The German production of alcohol had fallen off very much since the war, and little if any was being used for motors, benzol being the fuel principally employed.

The bridge can be opened in 2 minutes, and is operated by two large electric motors.

The electric motors are under the control of the driver in a cabin on the car.

The Great Western railway has also a service of road motors between Abergavenny and Brecon.

The village has various manufactures, including bolts and nuts, motors for racing boats and automobiles; there are also large planing and wood-moulding mills.

Machine-making on a large scale is carried on by firms widely celebrated for the construction of locomotives, railway trucks and carriages, steamboilers and motors, turbines, pumps, metal bridges and roofs.

The subject of hydraulic transmission of power is treated generally under Power Transmission (Hydraulic), and the present article is confined to water motors.

Owing to the difficulty of securing a durable motor with a simple and trustworthy means of automatically regulating the quantity of water used to the power needed at various times from the motor, not much advance has been recently made in the use of water motors with reciprocating rams or pistons.

Hornell has extensive car shops of the Erie railroad, and among its manufactures are silk goods (silk gloves being a specially important product), sash, doors and blinds, leather, furniture, shoes, white-goods, wire-fences, foundry and machine shop products, electric motors, and brick and tile.

Besides having a considerable share in the commerce of the port of New York, Bayonne is an important manufacturing centre; among its manufactures are refined petroleum, refined copper and nickel (not from the ore), refined borax, foundry and machine-shop products, tubular boilers, electric launches and electric motors, chemicals (including ammonia and sulphuric and nitric acids), iron and brass products, wire cables and silk goods.

The rotation of the dome, and p _z with it the platform-framework, is accomplished s by means of electric motors, as also is the raising and lowering of the platform on its = =_ framework.

The telescope is moved in right ascension and declination by electric motors controlled from positions convenient for the observer.

The motors were practically useless on account of mechanical defects and were abandoned early in the great march.

In the form of motors for producing very small amounts of power air-engines have been found convenient, and within a restricted field they are still met with.

Clifford considers an octonion p+wq as the quotient of two motors p+wv, p'+wo'.

This is the basis of a method parallel throughout to the quaternion method; in the specification of rotors and motors it is independent of the origin which for these purposes the quaternion method, pure and simple, requires.

Lines and complexes thereof are sufficiently treated as rotors and motors, but points and planes cannot be so treated.

Such a press requires two 55 h.p. motors, one at each end, to drive it.

The independent system of motors is generally adopted, because it is found more economical and better for driving purposes, besides dispensing with the overhead shafting and belting, always unsightly, and dangerous to the workpeople.

There are engineering shops producing railway stock and motors, jute spinning and weaving mills, and match and joinery works.

For road-mending flint, though very hard, is not regarded with favour, as it is brittle and pulverizes readily; binds badly, yielding a surface which breaks up with heavy traffic and in bad weather; and its fine sharp-edged chips do much damage to tires of motors and cycles.

Schenectady is a manufacturing centre of growing importance; here are the main works of the General Electric Company, manufacturers of electrical implements, apparatus, motors and supplies, and of the American Locomotive Company.

In later years Ericsson devoted himself to the study of torpedoes and sun motors.

The wave-induced motion of these joints is resisted by hydraulic rams, which pump high-pressure oil through hydraulic motors via smoothing accumulators.

An estimated 10% of lineage advertisements in the classified ' motors for sale ' section are traders.

Roth motors later used a pig to drive a car down Broadway for the sake of a stunt!

The profiler carriage contains motors for both the horizontal and vertical drives, together with all the associated electronic circuitry.

Fan-coil units with electronically commutated fan motors are being supplied by Smiths Environmental for Berkeley First's Paragon development in Brentford.