View Poll Results: Engine VS Motor
Engine
52
50.49%
Motor
28
27.18%
Engine unless it has a blower then its a blower motor
17
16.50%
Motor until it breaks then its a blown engine not to be confused w/a blower motor
6
5.83%
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Do you call it a motor or an engine?
05-11-2003, 08:50 AM
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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.
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.
05-11-2003, 09:17 AM
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VERY simple question, especially if you have ever been around aircraft, complex ones having both........
engines = fuel-powered device
motor = electrical device
engines = fuel-powered device
motor = electrical device
05-11-2003, 09:21 AM
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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
