While I'm kind of an ass hole with respect to technically correct terminoogy (energy v power, GRRR!), that motor versus engine thing I kind of learned to let go.
Personally, I feel that direct heat to kinetic is an engine, whereas other conversions to kinetic are motors. Thus I feel that steam engines are engines, whereas wind turbines are motors. (Even though they ultimately operate on wind generated by temperature differences in one geographic region versus another.)
However, my Seconds will not accept challenges on that issue, a la the code duello.
And after all, the automotive engine capital of the world used to be called "Motor City."
The language has been so mangled by blurred usages in the past, what?, twenty years?, that even dictionaries are struggling to keep up with denotative versus connotative meanings. Like, dig it, dude? (Or "dudette," as the case may be.)
Poor bastards.
Which is an incorrect usage of the term "bastard."
Terry, 230RN
"Actually, you're much safer with me with a gun than you are with me without a gun."