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  • noun Plural form of motor.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of motor.

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Examples

  • A friend of mine took the electric car window motors from a car and rigged them to a couple goose shell decoys.

    Electronics Drive Me Nuts 2009

  • One particular element facing surging demand is called dysprosium, a magnetic material used in motors for hybrid cars and for magnetic disc drives for personal computers.

    Japan Scrambles for Rare Earth Yuka Hayashi 2010

  • A friend of mine took the electric car window motors from a car and rigged them to a couple goose shell decoys.

    Electronics Drive Me Nuts 2009

  • We went down in motors to the Union Station; travelled up in the Government Car to Cochrane; transferred at Cochrane to an old caboose, a freight car and a construction locomotive, and came over 45 miles of newly built and newly ballasted road, while the rain was pouring down.

    The Northland of Canada 1923

  • Without the high maintenance costs of the Space Shuttle Orbiters, the modified parts of the current Space Transportation System (the two solid fuel boosters, and the fuel/oxygen tank with some borrowed rocket motors from the new Delta Rockets) and topped by an Orion space craft make for a well-understood, safe, reliable, and efficient system for maintaining access to the International Space Station and launching all the large spacecraft and other systems needed for Lunar and beyond exploration and eventual colonization.

    Transition Team Update - NASA Watch 2009

  • One unusual way to make your IKEA purchase less standardised is to chop it up and reassemble it with a few motors, which is what sculptor Jeff Carter did with the ever-popular LACK table.

    DIY Sculpted IKEA Tables | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • One unusual way to make your IKEA purchase less standardised is to chop it up and reassemble it with a few motors, which is what sculptor Jeff Carter did with the ever-popular LACK table.

    Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • GUPTA: The arm she's wearing here is powered by six motors, which is the most advanced model.

    CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2006 2006

  • Covenant vehicles also have a boost to their motors, which is handy when trying to get to the other side of the map quickly.

    worlds in a grain of sand Andrew 2005

  • The Colonel, recalling the motors, the oriental rugs, the grand piano, and other articles _de luxe_, which Broussard had once possessed, thought

    Betty at Fort Blizzard Molly Elliot Seawell 1888

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