View Poll Results: Do you call it an ENGINE or a MOTOR?

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  1. 05-21-2009, 10:13 AM #1
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    Default Yeah, I'm bored at work... So do you...

    What do you call it? An engine or a motor?

    I call it an engine but lets see what everyone else thinks LMAO
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  2. 05-21-2009, 10:14 AM #2
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    depends on my mood.

    but generally its my engine... or as i call it... the magic sound maker
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    vtack machine is what i prefer
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    repost
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    Quote Originally Posted by plv
    repost

    You're a repost...
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  6. 05-21-2009, 10:22 AM #6
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    I don't feel like explaining this again.
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    Nothing to explain? Just what do you call it lol...
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    It's neither. It's moter.
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    or... Money pit lol
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    LULz....i clicked the wrong fucking button when i voted too....AWESOME. trying to do too much at once....but...

    A motor is converting electric energy into mechanical energy. A engine is converting chemical energy into mechanical energy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oneSLOWex
    LULz....i clicked the wrong fucking button when i voted too....AWESOME. trying to do too much at once....but...

    A motor is converting electric energy into mechanical energy. A engine is converting chemical energy into mechanical energy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oneSLOWex
    LULz....i clicked the wrong fucking button when i voted too....AWESOME. trying to do too much at once....but...

    A motor is converting electric energy into mechanical energy. A engine is converting chemical energy into mechanical energy.
    :english:

    for a smart person, that was like a kindergarten mistake.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Miranda
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    for a smart person, that was like a kindergarten mistake.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oneSLOWex
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    An engine is a type of motor. It has motive power. A boat can have an inboard/outboard motor. The motor consists of an engine but it is a motor that causes it to move. Motorcycles, General Motors, Honda Motor Co. The term motor has became synonymous with electric powered but was originally the term motor in automobiles was used to describe what we know as an internally combustible engine compared to the old steam engines. So really it does not matter what you call it. I call it according to the context I'm saying it in. If I am talking in general I will say motor, because that is what makes the car move. If I am speaking of the actual internal parts I will say engine cause that is what it is. An engine is a motor but a motor does not have to be an engine.
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    look how many people voted motor LOL
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    an engine and a motor are 2 different things. which are you referring to? an internal comustion, rotary, etc ENGINE? or an electric MOTOR?
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    Quote Originally Posted by collins
    an engine and a motor are 2 different things. which are you referring to? an internal comustion, rotary, etc ENGINE? or an electric MOTOR?
    repost
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    Right now i call it my fucken gas hog!!! cause thats exactly what my tahoe is!!!
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    lol oh whatever
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    i call it a MOTA
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    Engine 99% of the time, from time to time motor just slips out.


    Even though they are 2 completely different things (engine = combustion, motor = electric) it's still understood whats being discussed.
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    Its like when people call hatches EKs and shit....
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    tha beast...
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    Mine is a fucking piece of shit pain in the ass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WhiteAccord
    Mine is a fucking piece of shit pain in the ass.
    cant be that bad
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    I call it teh engine. I surely do wish I had a V6 motor in it though
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    Dont know why everyone thinks the word motor only applies to electricity

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    either.. idk.
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    The simple definition of a motor is a device that converts ANY kind of energy into mechanical energy

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    i call it my d17 gas sipping engine
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