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BenAskrensStrikingcoach

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Jan 30, 2015
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Engine and motor are interchangeable now but previously would have been diferent words.

Motor is to move, engine is an ingenious device , thats from the latin origins.

I always thought of an engine as a type of motor, an internal combustion motor.

Suppose I am still right in a way, both are pretty much the same thing though.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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Jul 22, 2015
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Engine and motor are interchangeable now but previously would have been diferent words.

Motor is to move, engine is an ingenious device , thats from the latin origins.

I always thought of an engine as a type of motor, an internal combustion motor.

Suppose I am still right in a way, both are pretty much the same thing though.
When you google "Internal combus..." it auto completes "...ion engine" rather than motor. As a very general rule, if it's electric it's a motor, if it's anything else it's an engine. If you think about an engine in a car, the engine will run and create power, but it's incapable of motion without being attached to a transmission of some sort. A motor on the other hand (like for a power window) is capable of motion, but only when power is applied to it.

For what it's worth, no one is pretending that if you call the thing under the hood of a car a "motor" people aren't going to know what you're talking about, I was just giving Filthy @Filthy a hard time because I know the field he works in.
 

BenAskrensStrikingcoach

Formerly formulating formally
Jan 30, 2015
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When you google "Internal combus..." it auto completes "...ion engine" rather than motor. As a very general rule, if it's electric it's a motor, if it's anything else it's an engine. If you think about an engine in a car, the engine will run and create power, but it's incapable of motion without being attached to a transmission of some sort. A motor on the other hand (like for a power window) is capable of motion, but only when power is applied to it.

For what it's worth, no one is pretending that if you call the thing under the hood of a car a "motor" people aren't going to know what you're talking about, I was just giving Filthy @Filthy a hard time because I know the field he works in.

Yeah I figured that alright, thought I'd throw my useless opinion in regardless.

I agree with you, although there is still motion in an engine, even if it isn't attached to a drive train, it is still converting explosive energy into mechanical energy, every piston that moves on every explosion is motion.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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Jul 22, 2015
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Yeah I figured that alright, thought I'd throw my useless opinion in regardless.

I agree with you, although there is still motion in an engine, even if it isn't attached to a drive train, it is still converting explosive energy into mechanical energy, every piston that moves on every explosion is motion.
It's a rough analogy, but I figured it got the point across sufficiently.
 

Filthy

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When you google "Internal combus..." it auto completes "...ion engine" rather than motor. As a very general rule, if it's electric it's a motor, if it's anything else it's an engine. If you think about an engine in a car, the engine will run and create power, but it's incapable of motion without being attached to a transmission of some sort. A motor on the other hand (like for a power window) is capable of motion, but only when power is applied to it.

For what it's worth, no one is pretending that if you call the thing under the hood of a car a "motor" people aren't going to know what you're talking about, I was just giving Filthy @Filthy a hard time because I know the field he works in.
i put it in quotes because it's what every 16-26 yo with a Camry is going to say.

but as a hillbilly by birth, I say motor.