Do you call it a motor or an engine?
 

Do you call it a motor or an engine (that thing that moves your boat)?

Definitions:

Motor- Something, such as a machine or an engine, that produces or imparts motion.
A device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, especially an internal-combustion engine or an arrangement of coils and magnets that converts electric current into mechanical power.


Engine-
A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion.
Such a machine distinguished from an electric, spring-driven, or hydraulic motor by its use of a fuel.

A mechanical appliance, instrument, or tool: engines of war.
An agent, instrument, or means of accomplishment.
A locomotive.
A fire engine.

By these definitions an engine is a classification of motor that requires a type of fuel.

I always call it a motor however. Might just be geaographical thing like soda vs. pop.

I refer to them as engines. Motors to me are run on electricity.

Motorcycle?

"Electric Motor"

"Gas Engine"

VERY simple question, especially if you have ever been around aircraft, complex ones having both........

engines = fuel-powered device

motor = electrical device

Well, we certainly do refer to those floating powered things at the dock as motorboats, and we lube them with motoroil, but I was always taught that to be absolutely correct, an engine is a rotating/RECIPROCATING whatchamacallit while a motor only rotates. But then I guess that if that were really true there wouldn't be any jet or turbine engines. They would be jet or turbine motors. Go figure!!??!! --- Jer

Engines run on gas

Motors on electricity.....I say motors sometimes though.

Jafo is correct!
Thats what I have always heard!

when i was in flight school the instructor corrected me one day and told me engines are internal combustion and motors are electrical. so i agree with jafo.

Engines make the boat go

Motors lift the hatches when the engine doesn't make the boat go
:D :confused: