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Motor vs Centrifugal - What's the difference?

motor | centrifugal |

As a noun motor

is engine (mechanical device).

As an adjective centrifugal is

tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

motor

English

(wikipedia motor)

Alternative forms

* motour (very rare)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A machine or device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
  • (lb) A motor car, or automobile.
  • *
  • *:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor , brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
  • (lb) A source of power for something, an inspiration, a driving force.

    • Synonyms

    * engine

    Derived terms

    * electric motor * linear motor * motorbike * motorcycle * motorcyclist * motorise * motorist * motor oil * motor scooter * motor trade * motor unit * motor vehicle * outboard motor * rocket motor * shaded-pole motor

    Related terms

    * motoric * psychomotor * sensorimotor

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (biology) describing neurons that create the ability to move
    • She has excellent motor skills.

    Derived terms

    * motor unit

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To drive around leisurely in a motorised vehicle.
  • (slang) To leave.
    • I gotta motor .

    External links

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    centrifugal

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia centrifugal) (-)
  • Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
  • (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
  • (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

    • Antonyms

    * centripetal

    Derived terms

    * centrifugal force

    References

    * * centrifugal] ''[http://oxforddictionaries.com/ Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.