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motor

/moh-ter/US // ˈmoʊ tər //UK // (ˈməʊtə) //

电机

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
    • : any self-powered vehicle.
    • : a person or thing that imparts motion, especially a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery.
    • : Also called electric motor. Electricity. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.
    • : motors, stocks or bonds in automobile companies.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or operated by a motor.
    • : of, for, by, or pertaining to motor vehicles: motor freight.
    • : 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.
    • : causing or producing motion.
    • : Physiology. conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve.
    • : Psychology, Physiology.Also motoric. of, relating to, or involving muscular movement: a motor response; motor images.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to ride or travel in an automobile; drive: They motored up the coast.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Chiefly British. to drive or transport by car: He motored his son to school.

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Examples

  • When a fan is driven by a motor, air enters the back and accelerates out the front.

  • Though air pollution vastly improved in recent decades—thanks largely to technology and policy aimed at motor vehicles—it remains a problem in many large cities.

  • For another, they’re smart cookies, meaning they can be trained to walk on a treadmill while the implant records from their motor cortex to predict the movement of each joint.

  • Most vehicles today house internal-combustion engines, but cars with electric motors are gaining ground.

  • Whatever the class, federal law restricts “low speed electric bicycle” motors with 750 watts of power.

  • They can hear the sound of his boat's motor, growing louder as it comes over the horizon.

  • The female fan base tends to hold steady at 38 percent, according to Amanda Regan, a spokeswoman for Feld Motor Sports.

  • The power delivered by the rocket motor was uneven and tricky to control.

  • The turbulent waters caused one of his oars to crack, which—without a motor or a sail—can be severely detrimental to his voyage.

  • Rolls Royce Motor Cars is a subsidiary of BMW, who make the engines.

  • To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!

  • Under these conditions, the large motor B collapses and the pull-down P (which is connected with the organ pallet) rises.

  • A big gray sedan stood in the middle of the road, the motor idling.

  • The action of the springs now serves to close the valves V, V1, and to open out the motor M, whereupon the process is repeated.

  • As the valve V1 is open, the sound waves formed in the pipe P1 will govern the speed of vibration of the motor M.