motor

Definition

  • noun: a machine that produces motion or power for doing work
  • noun: one that imparts motion
  • verb: to travel in a car
  • verb: to travel by automobile
  • synonyms: drive, anvil, active

Examples

  • You can register your car at the Registry of 'Motor Vehicles'.

  • We spent the afternoon 'motoring' through the countryside.

  • We stayed overnight at the Pleasant Valley 'Motor Court'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) You heard of that market crash in '? I predicted that. Just how did you do that, Stella? Oh, simple. I was nursing a director of General motors. ''Kidney ailment,'' they said. ''Nerves,'' I said. Then I asked myself, ''What's General motors got to be nervous about?'' ''Overproduction,'' I says. Collapse. When General motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country's ready to let go. Stella, in economics, a kidney ailment has no relationship (..)
    1954 Rear Window