Usually means: Device that converts energy into motion.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word motor:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. motor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. motor: Merriam-Webster
  3. motor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. motor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. motor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. motor: Vocabulary.com
  7. Motor, motor: Wordnik
  8. motor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. motor: Wiktionary
  10. motor: Dictionary.com
  11. motor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. motor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Motor (American magazine), Motor (Australian magazine), Motor (Hearst magazine), Motor (device), Motor (disambiguation), Motor, The Motor (magazine), The Motor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Motor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. motor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. motor: Rhymezone
  17. Motor (m), motor, motor, motor (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. motor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. motor: FreeDictionary.org
  20. motor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. motor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Motor: World Wide Words
  23. motor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. motor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  25. motor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  26. motor: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. motor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Motor: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  8. motor: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. -motor, motor: Medical dictionary
  10. Motor: Brain Injury
  11. Motor: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. motor, motor: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. motor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  5. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  7. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  8. Motor: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See motordom as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
noun:  (now colloquial outside attributive use) A motor car, or automobile, sometimes extended to other powered vehicles, such as goods vehicles.
noun:  (figuratively) A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force.
noun:  Any protein capable of converting chemical energy into mechanical work.
noun:  (Christianity, archaic, poetic) The controller or prime mover of the universe; God.
noun:  (prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
adjective:  (biology) Relating to the ability to move.
adjective:  (nautical) Propelled by an internal combustion engine (as opposed to a steam engine or turbine).
verb:  (dated) To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive.
verb:  (transitive, aviation) To rotate a jet engine or turboprop using the engine's starter, without introducing fuel into the engine.
verb:  (informal, figurative) To progress at a brisk pace.
verb:  (slang) To leave.
noun:  Alternative form of Mator (“Samoyedic language”) [A Uralic Samoyedic language, extinct since the 1840s, formerly spoken in the northern region of the Sayan Mountains in Siberia, close to the Mongolian north border.]

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