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▸ 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.]
Similar:
drive,
efferent,
motive,
centrifugal,
causative,
electromotor,
engine,
dynamotor,
nonmotor,
motory,
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electric motor,
combustion engine,
steam engine,
hydraulic motor,
pneumatic motor,
linear motor,
rotary motor,
AC motor,
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