Other Say it with me class....

[onlyFX-1]

It's finally gotten to me, too many people calling their ENGINES "motors".
Your internal combustion ENGINE is called just that...a ENGINE, not a motor.
A electric motor can be called a motor but not a engine. From now on when I see people say "blah blah blah the motor in my ski" I'm just going to assume you are a tree huger running a electric motor in your ski.

ENGINE not motor!

Rant over=)

 

[Kny21]

Says the guy who calls his PWC a ski...

 

[mjamesd013]

you should be using AN instead of A...just sayin

 

[Matt_E]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motor
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/motor
http://www.beedictionary.com/common-errors/engine_vs_motor

Any ideas why they sell "motor oil" ?

 

[icecoled007]

http://youtu.be/rrAeJGQpm0o

 

[swapmeet]

Kotajoe on here gets bent about the same stuff. I ask him how often he rides his "engine cycle"...

I'm a grammar nazi, I just hide my anger about the subject... and I know how you feel, but I still do it.

 

[98gti]

I wish this was all I had to worry about, lol.

 

[motoman96]

Call summit and jegs and tell them they need to reprint there catalogs, it's crate engine, not crate motor. Doesn't bother me, but the old timers at work get up in arms about this too. I think it's funny cause I don't care either way.lol

 

[onlyFX-1]

I know, just like I don't understand why they are called motor mounts. Maybe it is because I spend a lot of time with older people and engine builders. You never hear "call your motor builder".

Here is a example, post number 14 by Chuck. Now I'm pretty sure he knows a thing or 2
http://www.x-h2o.com/threads/82598-Motor-choice-for-flat-water&p=1008455&highlight=#post1008455

 

[motoman96]

I know what your saying, it's just become a loose term over the years. BUT, the old timers are the first to step in and say it's not a motor! I find comedic value in it, cause it literally drives them nuts. Sometimes I try to piss them off by switching it up and refer to electric motors as engines, talk about a rant.lol

 

[onlyFX-1]

I wish this was all I had to worry about, lol.

Since my engine is being rebuilt and I just finished fiberglassing my busted nose on my ski from hitting bottom in Panama Beach, FL I have some time on my hands lol

 

[gabe_k]

I can see it now..."ford engine company" mhmm

I agree though, a motor is electric. A engine is a internal combustion..

 

[snirunner24]

Do you ever use the word jet ski do depict a pwc that's not a kawasaki? Yes it is not a motor and your pwc is not a jet ski but in the end who really cares!!!!!!


Why is it called a driveway when it used for parking, or a parkway when its used for driving?

 

[motoman96]

It's no different then calling a yamaha atv a quad as Suzuki owns the right to the term quad. Yet everyone calls four wheelers quads.

 

[onlyFX-1]

I like this one Matt http://www.beedictionary.com/common-errors/engine_vs_motor

But I use my face instead of a engine to motorboat

 

[snirunner24]

No,no,no my friend say it with my class

A motor is a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.

http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=motor&o=0&l=dir

A motor is a device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, especially an internal-combustion engine or an arrangement of coils and magnets that converts electric current into mechanical power.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=motor

Even my wedsters that I'm looking at says internal combustion.

So to recap you pwc is not a jet ski, a yamaha 4 wheeler is not a quad. And a engine is the same as a motor

 

[onlyFX-1]

You are right, from now on I'll call it a motor in my pwc that's parked in my parkway

 

[Matt_E]

Language changes over time.

 

[snirunner24]

Lol now thats funny!!!!!

 

[btmboards]

mo·tor(m

t

r)n.1. Something, such as a machine or an engine, that produces or imparts motion.
2. A device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, especially an internal-combustion engine or an arrangement of coils and magnets that converts electric current into mechanical power.
3. A motor vehicle, especially an automobile:

adj.1. Causing or producing motion: motor power.
2. Driven by or having a motor.
3. Of or for motors or motor vehicles: motor oil.
4. Of, relating to, or designating nerves that carry impulses from the nerve centers to the muscles.
5. Involving or relating to movements of the muscles: motor coordination; a motor reflex.

v. mo·tored, mo·tor·ing, mo·tors
v.intr.To drive or travel in a motor vehicle.

v.tr.To carry by motor vehicle.

Looks to me like they are one in the same and can go by either name

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