What Do You Call It? ENGINE OR MOTOR
 

I'll give you the answer when everyone is done voting

Ok I posted :D

a motor is electric

engines use fuel, and motors use electricity

That's what my shop teacher told me in highschool (1974) I assume it hasn't changed.

yep that's correct engines are gas or other fuel motors are electric still the same.

I have got one question and I have mentioned it in another thread...Am I riding a motor cycle or an engine cycle :?: :?: ..Look forward to the answer to this one....HUMMMMM....Looks like I might be moving to the front yard now :lol:

Motor or engine......well I always thought I was part engine, at least my grandpa was full blooded Cherokee....does that mean I am also part Jeep?

lotsof454 you forgot a motor home or is it engine home.

is this a north south question?

Chevguy65, are you really Cherokee? My grandfather on my dads side was full blooded, and my great grandmother on my mothers side was full blooded. That's why my exwife called me a crazy indian when I got real mad. I don't think the fire water had anything to do with it.

Yes my grandfather on my mothers side was full blooded Cherokee.

We may be related...his name was Joseph Blackburn

My grandfathers name was Rockhouse John Pennington. My great grandmothers name was Liza sizemore. Liza's fathers name was Billy Sizemore. Not his real name but the one he took. Don't know his Indian name. My people are from Virginia, North Carolina, and kentucky. Have you ever heard of Pennington Gap kentucky?

my wife is full blooded indian. she is always on the war path :shock: :shock:

I think I have heard of Pennington Gap, but don't put in front of a firing squad swearing on it.
My grandpa was originally from around Look Out Mountain GA.

I don't know a whole lot about him, he died before I was born, just pictures and stories.

That is pretty cool. I'm in North Ga. and there are alot of Cherokee around here. Nice to know there are still some of us around. I will ask about the blackburn name. Might be some kin of yours around here.

Well Perry when the motorcycle was brought to life in the old days they did infact call it a motor,so thats where motorcycle came from.

Now we are in the 21 century,things have changed,gearheads have have paved the way,some people still call it a motor infact,some times in sentances its called motor,example:(What did it run on all motor?)
(Meaning without any enhancers. Nos etc.poweradders)

Ok now slowman is right with this terminoligy,Engine.
An engine runs on gasoline,and a motor runs on electricity.

So now Perry,how long is the extension cord for your motorcycle?
My motorcycle runs on gas,does yours? Its confusing, LOL

Thats how it was explained to me a few years ago,some engine builders take offense to it being called a motor

So with that said,I try to pick my words and call it an engine,and some times,I said some times I'll say mototr but very little.

Some of the engine builders will chime in here I am sure and help me out.

Thats my .10 cents on the Engine, Motor deal :roll:

Thanks alot Tom nice try...Based on the statements so far to be called an engine it runs on fuel...To be a motor it runs on electricity.. ok, then to break the engine into a scientific study it would be determined it operates on a fuel, air, and a spark which produces a combustion..RIGHT :?: And then the motor operates on electricity.... So since the apparatus that makes my cycle go has fuel, air and spark and produces combustion then it is a engine..Therefore I am now riding a enginecycle in the 21st century :roll: ...Well I just be damned ain't terminology grand.....Oh and I almost forgot...Perhaps it is time to pave a new way in terminology again, look at this definition of an "ION ENGINE"....

ion engine- a type of reaction-propulsion ENGINE to propel rockets in space; a stream of positive ions is accelerated to a high velocity by an "ELECTRIC FIELD"... Notice no fuel involved but called an engine...

I do love a good discussion.....not an arguement now :!: Cause I am going to ride it what ever it is called...

You have some good points there Perry.But I ride a motorcycle to but if I need to remove the motor I'll call it the engine.

I just have to laugh when I open the hood up to check the oil in my truck,LOL

There it was again, that 710 thing again, damm that cover was upside down it said OIL :P :P :P

There it was again, that 710 thing again, damm that cover was upside down it said OIL . that's funny chit right there.

AYYY Tom, I am one of those guys that can't be wrong and can't be right, and besides I call mine a motorsicle anyway as it irritates the hell out of the other half.. :lol: "I just wanna ride my motorsicle"

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...motorcycle.gif

I don't wanna pickle

Yeah my grandfather used to call it a motorsicle too LOL :P It was funny seeing that again

does anyone what to buy a enginehome? :lol:

This is one of the new ion engine bikes and a very famous rider...

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...motorcycle.jpg

Does it look like this?

http://www.hillbillys.co.uk/kmh.jpg

the more i read and see the more you guys aren't right. :lol: :lol:

You see the woman in the window waving to you? :P :P :P

looks like the old ladys familys house from kentucky lol. now she mad at me lol.

Re: What Do You Call It? ENGINE OR MOTOR
 

A MOTOR POWERS AN ENGINE

ENGINE OR MOTOR. A MOTOR POWERS AN ENGINE
 

MOTOR: THAT WHICH PRODUCES POWER OR MOTION. A MACHINE WHICH PREFORMS MECHANICAL WORK A MACHINE FOR TRANSMUTING ENERGY INTO MECHANICAL MOTION.. ENGINE, ANYTHING USED TO EFFECT A PURPOSE. A MACHINE BY WHICH POWER IS APPLIED FOR THE PREFORMANCE OF WORK; AN APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SOME MECHANICAL EFFECT; A LOCOMOTIVE

wELL tOM MY RIEND, LET ME BE THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE HERE AND SHOW YOU THE QUESTION YOU ASKIED. iT HAS NO ANSWER. oR IT HAS EITHER ANSWER.

Ooops Capslock was on. Sorry. :)

I guess that depends on what you call IT. I think I heard that argument in the Bill Clinton Hearings too.

It? What's an It?

Ed

Wiston Cup Shop!!
 

The fab shop calls them water heaters!!!!!!!!!!!

Im with ED i vote for it!!!!!!

I always thought that an engine was a machine that converted energy(by means of a chemical reaction, ie: fuels of variouse types) into mechanical motion. And a motor uses and existing energy source (electricity, wind or water, and there are more) to produce mechanical motion.
But hell, what do I know. :? :roll: