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motor or engine?
When communicating to another about the hunk of metal in which gasoline burns under the hood to move the heavy boxes that we travel great distances in short amounts of time within, what word do you use to designate said hunk of metal?
I've always called it an engine and thought it weird when anyone called it a motor. While it is a motor, engine seems more appropriate(specific) when talking about it in this case.
A motor is a machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion.
An engine is a motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work.
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- Kyle
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