Motor or Engine

twall

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It's perfectly fine with me if it is called The Motor City !

I just sarted this to see if it was only me who wondered about this !

I guess I'm not the only one ! :thumbsup:

I've heard it a lot. "it's not a motor - it's an engine".....coming from some elitist snob who never saw a grain of grit in his manicured salesman-fingernails in his life!

That is in no way a slam against you, BK...I've just heard this before......and it wasn't pretty (my response to said elitist, anyway - and the stain the experience left).

Good thread! :thumbsup:
 

CompactTractorFan

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a MOTOR is electric powered and an ENGINE is internal combustion.

I agree with that statement. Although, when you watch old TV shows they almost always call the engine a motor. I wonder if it's an old-fashioned thing? :wink: Also, do you ever hear anybody call an electric motor an engine? :rolleyes:
 

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I agree with that statement. Although, when you watch old TV shows they almost always call the engine a motor. I wonder if it's an old-fashioned thing? :wink: Also, do you ever hear anybody call an electric motor an engine? :rolleyes:

When it's in an ENGINE lathe, yes.
 

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As long as they run,Who cares what one calls them.
Now why would they call an engineer an engineer,it s a human?
 

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Sounds like the "What is a screw and what is a bolt?" debate (keep it clean). :laughing: Many people will have definite distinctions between the two, but those distinctions won't be the same.
 

Sir Clip

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Well I thought I would look up the meaning and origins of both words and on my computer. I used Google which is a.........
SEARCH ENGINE.:licking::confused2:could be search motor.
 

BigEd

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My great father taught me a ryme many, many years ago: "A motor runs an electric train, an engine runs an air-o-plane".
 

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My great father taught me a ryme many, many years ago: "A motor runs an electric train, an engine runs an air-o-plane".

That's clever! :laughing: You never do forget those little rhymes...
 

George G

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I used to call the thing in my car an engine, now I call it a motor.....still runs the same.
 
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