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eric_schulz
Senior Member
Username: eric_schulz
Post Number: 71
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2012 - 12:44 am: | 
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Why is that if the powerplant bolted down inside your boat is an "engine" and if you clamp one out the back it is called a "motor"?
Eric |
senojn
Senior Member
Username: senojn
Post Number: 92
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2012 - 03:48 pm: |
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Eric ,
I have my Blaxland Twin motor in my 'timber boat'
and my twin outboard engines on my 'wooden boat'.
Confusing isn't it ?
Cheers.
Neil |
jb_castagnos
Senior Member
Username: jb_castagnos
Post Number: 659
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2012 - 09:54 pm: |
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Same reason houses burn down and cars burn up. |
kkinney
Member
Username: kkinney
Post Number: 21
Registered: 04-2011
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2012 - 09:55 pm: |
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What is a timber boat?
Keith |
tom
Member
Username: tom
Post Number: 11
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2012 - 10:11 pm: |
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Our way a timber boat is a wooden boat built with sawn frames from natural curved wood, matching the curve of the wood with the curve of the boat lines. As opposed to latted boat where the frames are steamed (also known as plied timbers) |
senojn
Senior Member
Username: senojn
Post Number: 93
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2012 - 01:13 am: |
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Keith ,
Timber in the UK , Australia New Zealand etc is the correct term for cut/sawn wood.
In U.S. and Canada it is lumber .
Therefore I have a timber boat , a wooden boat an engine and a motor. |
johnny
Senior Member
Username: johnny
Post Number: 440
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 - 06:15 am: |
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Motors runs with electric power source.
Engines runs with fuel source. |
keith
Senior Member
Username: keith
Post Number: 345
Registered: 02-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 - 01:06 pm: |
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engine
noun
1.
a. A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion.
b. Such a machine distinguished from an electric, spring-driven, or hydraulic motor by its use of a fuel.
2.
a. A mechanical appliance, instrument, or tool: engines of war.
b. An agent, instrument, or means of accomplishment.
3. A locomotive.
4. A fire engine.
5. Computer Science A search engine.
motor
noun
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:
This per "TheFreeDictionary" |
rbprice
Senior Member
Username: rbprice
Post Number: 361
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 11:16 am: |
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While Keith's definitions are what is published and in common usage by non-engine folks, I think that most engine people agree that a motor should NOT be used except on either an internal combustion device or a machine that converts non-electrical energy into motion; like steam or compressed air.
And a careful reading of the two definitions, "such a machine distinguished from an electric . . . . motor " contradicts itself.
Seems to me that the definition can't have it both ways. |
keith
Senior Member
Username: keith
Post Number: 347
Registered: 02-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 03:14 pm: |
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Point taken Bob. Answer, there is no 100% correct response. People use the terms interchangeably. |
rbprice
Senior Member
Username: rbprice
Post Number: 363
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 03:49 pm: |
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JB's answer is the best one.
:o) |
senojn
Senior Member
Username: senojn
Post Number: 94
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 05:36 pm: |
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While JB's response is clever I don't agree with the analogy . You can cut a tree down and chop it up but in the end it is wood /lumber/timber .
While the definitive answer is readily available in dictionaries and search engines (?) the two words engine and motor have become interchangeable simply through commom useage . |
