Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To equip with a motor.
- transitive verb To supply with motor-driven vehicles.
- transitive verb To provide with automobiles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In psychology, to apprehend a visual or auditory stimulus in motor or kinesthetic terms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb archaic To substitute motor-driven vehicles, or automobiles, for the horses and horse-drawn vehicles of (a fire department, city, etc.).
- transitive verb to equip (a piece of machinery) with a motor.
- transitive verb to provide with automobiles or other motor vehicles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To fit something with a
motor . - verb transitive To supply something or someone with
motor vehicles . - verb transitive To supply
armoured vehicles; tomechanize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb equip with a motor
- verb equip with a motor vehicle
- verb equip with armed and armored motor vehicles
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Examples
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Mesmerized by his own visions, Hitler did much of the talking, lecturing and declaiming on his plans to motorize Germany and build new highways.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Mesmerized by his own visions, Hitler did much of the talking, lecturing and declaiming on his plans to motorize Germany and build new highways.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Detractors on the environmental front have argued that mass-motorization in India is the worst thing that could happen as far as global warming is concerned, but India is going to motorize regardless.
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Many cities rushed to motorize their snow removal fleets, abandoning most of their horse-drawn carts.
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And after I got the building done it took me another month or so to figure out how to motorize the roof itself.
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It looks cool, great concept, but … they should probably ditch the turbine aspect, build it out of concrete, motorize the segments.
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Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable 2005
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I never understood why they wanted to motorize the razor until I read this.
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"One of our priorities was to re-motorize these buses."
Cuba: Castro Discusses Camping in Pinar del Rio Province 1996
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Castro says this "new word re-motorize" means to replace Soviet-built motors with other ones, because Soviet-built motors use too much fuel.
Cuba: Castro Discusses Camping in Pinar del Rio Province 1996
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