Engines vs. Motors

[Full Monte]

The main index uses the term "motors" instead of "engines" a lot. The correct term is "engines". A motor turns as a result of an applied electric current. An engine turns by burning a fuel of some kind. While everyone understands what you are talking about by using the incorrect term, I suggest you change the terminology in the index to be correct.

 

[sassyrel]

it wont be--they have to be pc----

 

[Mike]

fikst.

 

[4play]

not warring but a motor basically is a device which converts "energy" into a "motion" an engine is a device that uses "energy" to produce " movement " they are the same thing, but different terms. motor is more common to anything other than and internally combusted fuel "engine" but why are these called ( ford motor company ) ( general motors ) ( steam engines ) ( DMV>department of motor vehicles ) funny huh>>>>

 

[h2odrx]

not warring but a motor basically is a device which converts "energy" into a "motion" an engine is a device that uses "energy" to produce " movement " they are the same thing, but different terms. motor is more common to anything other than and internally combusted fuel "engine" but why are these called ( ford motor company ) ( general motors ) ( steam engines ) ( DMV>department of motor vehicles ) funny huh>>>>

NO!

 

[PackRat]

Right, and current is what is used to turn a motor. Juice is what runs down your leg, when you grab the bare wire on the motor.


Come to think of it, a bare wire on an engine might make juice, too.

 

[fairlane_68]

not warring but a motor basically is a device which converts "energy" into a "motion" an engine is a device that uses "energy" to produce " movement " they are the same thing, but different terms. motor is more common to anything other than and internally combusted fuel "engine"

He's correct. This is something that gets argued on every forum that has to do with motor vehicles.

MOTOR:
noun
1. a comparatively small and powerful engine, esp. an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
2. any self-powered vehicle.
3. a person or thing that imparts motion, esp. a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery.
4. Also called electric motor. Electricity. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.
5. motors, stocks or bonds in automobile companies.
–adjective 6. pertaining to or operated by a motor.
7. of, for, by, or pertaining to motor vehicles: motor freight.
8. designed or for automobiles, their drivers, or their passengers: The hotel has a motor lobby in its parking garage for picking up and discharging passengers.
9. causing or producing motion.
10. Physiology. conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve.
11. Psychology, Physiology. Also, motoric. of, pertaining to, or involving muscular movement: a motor response; motor images.
–verb (used without object) 12. to ride or travel in an automobile; drive: They motored up the coast.
–verb (used with object) 13. Chiefly British. to drive or transport by car: He motored his son to school.


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[Origin: 1580–90; < L mōtor mover, equiv. to mō- (var. s. of movére to move) + -tor -tor]
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en·gine Audio Help /ˈɛndʒən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[en-juhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a machine for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy or power to produce force and motion.
2. a railroad locomotive.
3. a fire engine.
4. any mechanical contrivance.
5. a machine or instrument used in warfare, as a battering ram, catapult, or piece of artillery.
6. Obsolete. an instrument of torture, esp. the rack.


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[Origin: 1250–1300; ME engin < AF, OF < L ingenium nature, innate quality, esp. mental power, hence a clever invention, equiv. to in- in-2 + -genium, equiv. to gen- begetting (see kin) + -ium -ium]

—Related forms
en·gine·less, adjective
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[hesutton]

Sorry Full Monte, but this is the worst suggestion ever!


Heath