Re: [T3] Engine or motor?

["Steven Ayres" <comwest@att.net>]

AaronC=> I've gotten into the habit of calling it
=> a "motor," when really it's an "engine," isn't it?

I've heard this said among motorheads (not engineheads, you'll note) before,
and always wondered where it got started.

>From Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dict.:

engine n. 1. a machine for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy
or power to produce force and motion.

motor n. 1. a comparatively small and powerful engine, esp. an internal
combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.

So: All motors are engines, some engines are motors, and, responding to
Aaron, some motors are electric.

Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ
"I'm an editor, and I don't play one on TV."
'66 KG1600

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