motor

noun

• 1a machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for another device with moving parts: these electric motors are highly reliable the sander has a smooth and powerful 520 watt motor
• a source of power, energy, or motive force:hormones are the motor of the sexual functions

• 2British informal a car: we drove out in my motor

adjective

• 1chiefly British driven by a motor:a motor van
• relating to motor vehicles:motor insurance

• 2giving or producing motion or action:demand is the principle motor force governing economic activity
• Physiology relating to muscular movement or the nerves activating it:the motor functions of each hand

verb

• travel in a motor vehicle:they motored north up the M6
• informal run or move as fast as possible: he had motored along to second base on a passed ball