Why "motor"
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motor:
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1. Something, such as a machine or an engine, that produces or imparts motion.
engine:
n.
1. A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion.
By definition, they're pretty much one in the same.
n.
1. Something, such as a machine or an engine, that produces or imparts motion.
engine:
n.
1. A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion.
By definition, they're pretty much one in the same.
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There are versions of slang for familiar words everywhere. How about calling a wheel a "rim", or a release bearing a "throwout" bearing. Or referring to a generic product by a trade name. Like calling a couch a "chesterfield" or a tissue a "Kleenex". Sometimes it's just poor language, like spelling a_lot "alot", or saying "irregardless" instead of regardless. It never ends.
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maybe, THEY ARE ALL THE SAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey maybe a MOTOR = CUMMINGS TERBO DEEZIL
While ENGINE = CUMMINS TURBO DIESEL??
Todays modern vernacular & lexicon have assigned specific meanings to words that are synonymous with each other. Definition wise they are the same.
Some say an engine is combustion, what about a steam engine? or fire engine with a gas motor? They don't call it the Department of Engine Vehicles do they? They call jet turbines; engines, whats up with that?
Maybe it was a motor that required Engine-ering?
I think it comes down to what sounds/fits better; Diesel engine, or Diesel motor, steam motor, or steam engine, electric engine or electric motor.
All semantics!!!! Just keep the "G" out of Cummins and I think we can all get along!
D-C out!
While ENGINE = CUMMINS TURBO DIESEL??
Todays modern vernacular & lexicon have assigned specific meanings to words that are synonymous with each other. Definition wise they are the same.
Some say an engine is combustion, what about a steam engine? or fire engine with a gas motor? They don't call it the Department of Engine Vehicles do they? They call jet turbines; engines, whats up with that?
Maybe it was a motor that required Engine-ering?
I think it comes down to what sounds/fits better; Diesel engine, or Diesel motor, steam motor, or steam engine, electric engine or electric motor.
All semantics!!!! Just keep the "G" out of Cummins and I think we can all get along!
D-C out!
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This reminds me of the guy i talked to yesterday who told me he was putting a 350CI duramax out of a 96 chev 3/4 ton into his half ton.... My only reply was , huh?
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There are versions of slang for familiar words everywhere. How about calling a wheel a "rim", or a release bearing a "throwout" bearing. Or referring to a generic product by a trade name. Like calling a couch a "chesterfield" or a tissue a "Kleenex". Sometimes it's just poor language, like spelling a_lot "alot", or saying "irregardless" instead of regardless. It never ends.
It's, "I COULDN'T CARE LESS" OR "I COULD NOT CARE LESS"..... This is the proper way to tell someone you really don't give a darn....
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[QUOTE=logskidder;1875585]
Not directly. An engine can power a pump/generator, which then provides power to a motor. I've never heard/seen an engine and a motor of somekind directly connected.
Engine/motor converts potential energy into kinetic (fuel to motion/electricity to motion/pressure to motion), whereas the pump/generator will convert kinetic energy to potential (motion to electricity/pressure).
Engine/motor converts potential energy into kinetic (fuel to motion/electricity to motion/pressure to motion), whereas the pump/generator will convert kinetic energy to potential (motion to electricity/pressure).
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It can be either or. Motor could be, Diesel motor, Gas motor, propane motor or electric motor, ect. And an engine can be anything that uses a fossil fuel to run ext.. The first engine designed was called a motor, so thats the real name of anything that we call an engine. The first "motor" was stuck in a three wheeled vehicle. When it was designed it was called motor, not engine.