Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A self-propelled wheeled conveyance, such as a car or truck, that does not run on rails.
Wiktionary
- n. Any land-based means of transportation in the form of machine that operates primarily through a motor consuming fuel in order to provide power to rotate the tires.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails
Examples
“At Henry Leland’s Cadillac plant in Detroit where, incidentally, consistent interchangeability for all the parts in a motor vehicle was achieved for the first time in 1906, a worker would load each block in a milling machine, then carefully mill it to specification.”
“Page 17 got the governors to call the motor vehicle commissioners together — most of those handled the licenses in the various states — and they met and at that time worked out what was called the Multi-State Agreement.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘motor vehicle’.
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TRAN - road transport
Vocabulary of road transport and roadworthiness
motor vehicle, limiter, brake drum, emission, vehicle, bodywork, chassis, vacuum pump, infrared radiation, disassemble, servo, exhaust and 216 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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ENVI - Collocations MNOPQ
macaw shipment, macerate sewage s..., macerate sewage s..., machine code, machine cycle, machine language, machine making, machine manufacture, machine rate, machine time, macroeconomic goal, macroeconomic policy and 5152 more...
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