Motor or Engine

[twall]

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]

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?

 

[twall]

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?

When it's in an ENGINE lathe, yes.

 

[Bison]

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

 

[Peva]

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]

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]

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

 

[Briana]

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...

 

[Mini Motors]

There was a young man from Nantucket.....

 

[George G]

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