I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
car/motor insurance
▪ He was fined for driving without motor insurance.
inboard motor/engine
motor car
motor home
motor neurone disease
motor pool
motor racing
motor scooter
motor vehicle
▪ This road is closed to motor vehicles.
motor/car/aircraft etc spares
▪ a shortage of aircraft spares
outboard motor
starter motor
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
▪ I wonder: is there something wrong with the electric seat motors or should they sound like they have sand in them?
▪ While submerged, batteries power an electric motor that drives the propeller.
▪ Problems with the electric motor caused the mechanism to jam many times.
▪ The shell raising and lowering mechanism was overhauled and a new electric motor fitted with modern gearing and cable adjusting devices.
▪ The cells will drive electric motors and use on-board hydrogen gas as fuel.
▪ It is this force that translates electricity into rotation in an electric motor.
▪ Close at hand, an electric motor began to whirr, and Floyd felt himself moving.
migrating
▪ These repetitive simultaneous pressure waves usually occurred together with the lower oesophageal sphincter component of the migrating motor complex.
▪ Normal motility of the small intestine in the fasting state is characterised by the cyclical appearance of the migrating motor complex.
▪ Recently, a rectal motor complex that is not synchronous with or related to the migrating motor complex was reported.
▪ The migrating motor complex consists of a cyclical period of activity with a length of about 120 minutes in man.
outboard
▪ There were many anchored wooden boats with large outboard motors, but strangely, there were few fishing nets.
▪ He has asked us to buy him an outboard motor instead of giving cash.
▪ Foot steering of the outboard motor means that military users can keep both hands free to use weapons.
▪ All he needs is an outboard motor to go with it.
▪ It was cleaned, its seats and cockpit replaced, and a steering wheel, controls and outboard motor installed.
▪ The two of us, maybe some others, are going to hire a boat with an outboard motor and perch rods.
▪ The answer is an electric outboard motor.
▪ Went outside this morning and saw Noel pissing on the outboard motor.
sensory
▪ In the fields of mental energy, these exist as the sensory and motor indriyas, as we have discussed.
▪ During this stage, behavior is primarily sensory and motor.
▪ So the sensory and motor indriyas of all creatures are closely integrated within the mind structure of a creature.
▪ The sensory and motor indriyas are an integral part of the internal mind configuration of all living creatures.
▪ This involves a substantial intercalation of neurons to form an association area between the sensory and motor parts of the elementary brain.
small
▪ It also contains four small motors to separate the boosters from the shuttle about two minutes into the flight.
▪ Mabuchi Motor, a maker of small electric motors, serves 70 percent of its customers with only 20 different products.
▪ A new car may contain as many as 115 small electrical motors and have three miles of wiring.
▪ I pass the lock-up garages and the grease-blackened signs that indicate some small motor repair workshops.
▪ The arm juts out of a ball, and is connected to a couple of small motors.
stepping
▪ A stepping motor control program flowchart is shown in Fig. 6.11.
▪ Accurate load positioning: static torque characteristics 3.1 Introduction Most stepping motor applications involve accurate positioning of a mechanical load.
▪ The hybrid stepping motor has two phases which are excited by positive or negative currents.
▪ The motor is basically a closed-loop hydraulic control system which derives its input from a small conventional electrical stepping motor.
▪ These dips occur in many stepping motor systems and are caused by mechanical resonance in the motor/load combination.
▪ These secondary flux paths produce mutual coupling between the phase windings of the single-stack stepping motor.
▪ As an example Fig. 8.3 shows the flowchart for the control of a two-phase hybrid-type stepping motor by an eight-bit microprocessor.
■ NOUN
accident
▪ That was a case which arose out of injuries in a motor accident.
▪ He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director, Bill Naysmith.
▪ They had two sons, the elder of whom died in a motor accident in 1960.
▪ That summer of 1959 Elizabeth's son, Renny, was appallingly injured in a motor accident.
activity
▪ In contrast, infusion of taurodeoxycholic acid at these concentrations inhibited ileal motor activity.
▪ This shows the presence of a humoral inhibitor of ileal motor activity.
▪ These findings suggested that bile and taurodeoxycholic acid directly inhibited ileal motor activity.
▪ Figure 1 illustrates the effect of infusion of rabbit bile into the ileal lumen on carbachol stimulated motor activity.
▪ Non-deglutitive motor activity of the oesophagus is usually considered to be a sign of disordered motility.
▪ Figure 1 summarises motor activity at all stages of the experiments.
▪ It also inhibits motor activity induced by rectal distention and increases sensory thresholds for defaecation in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome.
bike
▪ I've been back loads of times and I keep seeing this man on a motor bike.
▪ But for some reason I can not remember, it was impossible to get permission to ship the motor bike.
▪ Unfortunately he was hit by a motor bike.
▪ The plaintiff was a pillion passenger on a motor bike driven by the defendant.
▪ Others roared over the sands in newly-designed Land Rovers, on revolutionary dune buggies and motor bikes.
▪ From a safe distance he saw him rev up a motor bike and ride away.
▪ It turned out that Dana had simply left his old motor bike on the quayside before embarking on the ship.
▪ Your second-hand motor bike was always breaking down.
boat
▪ The porpoises delight in riding on the bow waves of motor boats, which has frequently proved to be a fatal mistake.
▪ We clung helplessly to the upturned optimist until rescued by the instructor with a motor boat.
▪ The harbour is used by local fishermen, yachtsmen, motor boat and rowing enthusiasts.
▪ Northwich Northwich is an unpowered narrowboat which was towed by horse or a motor boat.
▪ What was the best method of disabling a motor boat, temporarily, at least?
car
▪ The latter now choose to use what they regard as the more salubrious transportation of the motor car or the aeroplane.
▪ There is now a very efficient motor car on the market with a wooden chassis.
▪ The development of the motor car is an excellent example of these shifting standards and expectations.
▪ And there, bumping and jolting its roaring way up the track towards the house was a motor car.
▪ It was he who had provided Eric with Mussolini's motor car and a chauffeur.
▪ Motability, the organisation formed for the purpose, now has a fleet of over 350,000 motor cars on the road.
▪ He has achieved little since November besides getting to know the gadgets in the presidential motor cars.
▪ Consider a person purchasing a new motor car.
cycle
▪ He opened the throttle, blasting the motor cycle broadside into the culvert.
▪ He dropped the gangplank over the stern and wheeled the motor cycle down.
▪ Many top speedway riders will be pitting their skills in the National motor cycle grass track meeting.
▪ He scrubbed out the map with his boot before remounting the motor cycle.
▪ We already have a car, motor cycle and bicycle lined up, but we need some one for the bus and train.
▪ Some of their multi-cylinder motor cycle engines have pistons little bigger than thimbles.
▪ When we came to Préfleur I asked Jean-Claude if he would teach me to drive the motor cycle.
function
▪ The effects of serotonin on gastrointestinal motor function are generally believed to be mediated through myenteric plexus neurons.
▪ Colonic motor function has also been investigated with electromyography, the electrodes being attached to the mucosa in the intact human.
▪ Thus research into colonic motor function remains a challenging and potentially rewarding area where progress has been facilitated by recent technological advances.
▪ Acid clearance time is a useful index of impaired oesophageal motor function.
▪ The genesis of abdominal pain or disordered bowel habit is generally ascribed to abnormal colonic motor function.
▪ Despite research contributions for many countries the normal and pathological motor function of the colon remains poorly understood.
▪ We conclude that autonomic neuropathy can affect motor functions throughout the gastrointestinal tract.
▪ The relations between dopamine and motor functions were analyzed.
industry
▪ In the aerospace and motor industry contexts, composites use different components but deploy them to similar ends.
▪ Parts Another of its larger contracts involves the movement of car parts to and from the motor industry in Coventry.
▪ The first is the wide variation in specification and finish that are standard practice in the motor industry.
▪ Today due to the decline in the motor industry, it's a shadow of its former self.
▪ Typical areas of investment by foreigners were the motor industry, cement and tobacco production, and, increasingly, gold-mining.
▪ But the new Accord comes at a crisis time for the motor industry.
▪ We are participating in a number of oil and motor industry programmes that are addressing key environmental issues in our markets.
▪ Furthermore, what support can he give to the motor industry?
insurance
▪ If you want to suspend this policy you must send your certificate of motor insurance back to us.
▪ Switch from comprehensive to third party motor insurance if your car's value has fallen far enough.
▪ It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance.
▪ By 1990 motor insurance had kept in line with average earnings and risen to £223.
▪ With motor insurance zooming in cost, this could give you a valuable saving.
manufacturer
▪ Their many satisfied customers include gas and electricity companies, motor manufacturers, circuit board makers and steam railway maintenance organisations.
▪ It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961.
▪ The real villains of the piece are the motor manufacturers.
▪ Electric motor manufacturer Team Rewinds has taken on Mike Osman, 49, in the newly created post of works manager.
▪ A motor manufacturer needs to retain an airline for the short notice movement of components, bulky and/or high value.
neuron
▪ The nervous control of the gill withdrawal reflex is a simple unit of one sensory neuron and one motor neuron.
▪ When the sensory neuron is stimulated, it fires the motor neuron, and the siphon and gills are withdrawn.
neurone
▪ Patients' records with a diagnosis of motor neurone disease at any position on the record were identified.
▪ In addition, help is required for motor neurone disease patients with swallowing disorders.
▪ I have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life.
▪ It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease.
▪ But he suffers from motor neurone disease and needs twenty-four hour care.
▪ The findings presented here can provide only indirect evidence about any possible adverse effect of cimetidine on motor neurone disease.
racing
▪ They're angry the motor racing team hasn't been able to improve on the reportedly £7million offer to tempt him back.
▪ But this beautifully illustrated book also provides a wonderful series of anecdotes from Edwards' life in motor racing.
▪ Sponsorship is important for such sporting activities as: golf, football, cricket and motor racing.
▪ Mansell has not embarked upon his twelfth full season in Grand Prix motor racing.
▪ In all respects, 1976 was an extraordinary year for Master James and for motor racing.
▪ It was one of the least gracious occasions I recall in my years in motor racing.
▪ A family link with Bira and Chula, the racing Siamese princes, pushed his interest towards motor racing.
▪ One of the greatest partnerships in motor racing was formed in 1964 when Stewart and Ken Tyrell teamed up.
rocket
▪ Without losing any time, she leaned forward ready to start up the rocket motors.
▪ Last summer, Thiokol reported singeing of O-ring seals located in the nozzles of rocket motors after consecutive launches.
▪ A particularly simple form of rocket motor uses solid propellant.
▪ The plant makes and tests rocket motors, but doesn't have enough new orders to keep going.
▪ After one second, controls in the nozzle of the rocket motor start steering the missile on to the proper trajectory.
▪ The sound of the rocket motors died away.
▪ A rocket motor failed and the spacecraft did not reach its intended orbit.
show
▪ The Birmingham motor show attracted 656,702 visitors.
sport
▪ Outdoor pursuits, photography, watching motor sport.
▪ There are two people Mario always said had the deepest influence on his life in motor sport.
▪ Get on the grid for live motor sport coverage!
▪ So how does it feel, Mosley was asked, to control world motor sport?
▪ Was this man running for president of the top body in world motor sport?
▪ I have known others like Jackie, not in motor sport but in other areas.
▪ He has also been able to indulge his interest in motor sport through his work for the Order.
▪ The Prodrive motor sport team in Banbury has taken on one of its most testing projects yet.
starter
▪ My Fiat Panda has a similar ignition fault which I have diagnosed to be a disengaged starter motor.
▪ The electric starter motor whined shrilly.
▪ The turning of the car's starter motor was an ugly and unwelcome sound in the stillness of the forest.
▪ Working with Cadillac engineers, Kettering created the starter motor, using the flywheel to turn over the engine.
▪ The starter motor worked perfectly and soon became a much sought-after Cadillac feature quickly adopted by all car makers.
trade
▪ He gave the impression of having little time for the Member, despite Grunte's many years spent in the motor trade.
▪ The motor trade is still in a very precarious state, with many dealers just treading water and others going bust.
▪ Any fiscal measures dampening demand for new cars will only increase unemployment in the motor trade.
▪ Only motor trade, legal expenses and professional indemnity covers are not available.
trader
▪ The latest survey was conducted between March 13 and April 8 and was completed by 520 retailers, wholesalers and motor traders.
▪ He and a motor trader got together to deceive the finance company.
▪ It would arise if the motor trader were the agent of the finance company in dealing with the customer.
▪ Career motor trader and garage owner.
▪ The holder of the licence must be a motor trader, vehicle tester or vehicle manufacturer.
▪ He and the motor trader filled in the usual forms.
▪ Retailers, wholesalers and motor traders all expect their businesses to become worse over the next three months.
▪ She went to a motor trader who told her this could be done.
vehicle
▪ Proof that the motor vehicle required a test certificate is often overlooked.
▪ They are largely removed from motor vehicles by catalytic converters.
▪ He sat back in the motor vehicle as the Doctor noticeably increased the speed of the journey.
▪ However, there are more substantial differences in the number of motor vehicles visible.
▪ The answer is, of course, to reduce the number of private motor vehicles.
▪ Has he had any discussions with motor vehicle insurers?
▪ I have included all accidents involving at least one motor vehicle, sometimes these will also have included pedestrians or cyclists.
▪ The study by the California Air Resources Board attributes the improvement to strict emission controls on motor vehicles and factories.
yacht
▪ Sheets in, he bore away from the motor yacht.
▪ This one concerned a motor yacht making a run with spirits from the Channel Isles.
▪ Sailing yachts 31-53 feet, motor yachts 37-46 feet, plus an extensive range of crewed sail and motor yachts 42-120 feet.
▪ By Cairnbaan only three motor yachts had puttered by.
▪ White-hulled, she was a sleek ninety-foot Baglietto motor yacht.
▪ Easing Golden Girl up under mainsail, Trent watched the motor yacht roll gently in the swell.
■ VERB
drive
▪ And driving a motor caravan is a real pleasure with more than enough power to keep on going.
▪ The cells will drive electric motors and use on-board hydrogen gas as fuel.
▪ The signals received by the loop and the sense unit also drive a motor which turns the loop.
▪ As a boy, he briefly jammed his finger into gears driven by that motor.
▪ Solar energy is converted by cells on the Solar Car's flanks to drive its electric motor and recharge its back-up batteries.
▪ No deduction is made in respect of the joint portion because, for example, one can not buy or drive half a motor car.
▪ When we came to Préfleur I asked Jean-Claude if he would teach me to drive the motor cycle.
▪ Tins can be an important consideration in applications where the power available to drive the motor is limited.
produce
▪ Engineering is not a glamorous pursuit, nor does Swindon produce the final glossy motor car which might lure potential workers.
▪ The phase current can not be maintained at its rated value and therefore the torque produced by the motor is reduced.
start
▪ Without losing any time, she leaned forward ready to start up the rocket motors.
▪ Slim Gordon started the motors and they were off, taxiing into position.
▪ Despite the bitter night he lowered his window before starting the motor.
▪ This could have had unfortunate consequences, so we started up the motor and went on towards the beach.
▪ Lord Beverley helped me up into the passenger seat and began the long business of starting the motor.
▪ Not worth starting up the motors.
▪ Sweetman, safe under Dream Baby's canopy, was starting his motors.
▪ Grant starts the motor and makes soup of the jellyfish.
use
▪ Expresspost is a fast messenger collection and delivery service available in London using radio controlled motor cycles and vans.
▪ The scanner accepts one sheet of paper at a time, which it pulls through the keyboard using a tiny motor.
▪ I used to do this with my more experienced pilots using the Falke motor glider on the runway at Lasham.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I got out of the car but left the motor running.
▪ Just then, the motor failed and the boat began drifting out of control.
▪ The ceiling fan is powered by an electric motor.
▪ The fan's motor made a funny popping sound.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Lord Beverley helped me up into the passenger seat and began the long business of starting the motor.
▪ The circuit only sends the motor an impulse when the sensor's output is different from the required setting.
▪ The heavier the motors, the bigger the batteries needed to power it.
▪ The supply also had to power some huge electric motors, and some of these were constantly switching in and out.
II.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ Motor cars are rarely called motor cars.
▪ A few years ago, it was motor cars and the computer age.
▪ In the 1960s planners even proposed to fill in the Grand Canal to allow motor cars to drive down it.
▪ The early post-war years saw a rapid rise in prosperity and with it a desire to own motor cars.
▪ There are fifty times as many Singer sewing machines as motor cars in Koraloona.
▪ The Wall Street crash of 1929 did not mean the end of radio or prevent the spread of the motor car.
home
▪ McLaren started the trend a few years ago by bringing along a motor home which, when parked, then expanded skywards.
▪ The Black Hills: winding roads, motor homes, smell of gift-shop candles.
▪ As the motor home culture exploded, the Oxfordshire company moved easily into this luxury market.
▪ Two years ago he sold it to Harley-Davidson for an undisclosed amount of money and a 30-foot motor home.
▪ Coming out of the motor home, she is staggering.
▪ The thing is, a lot of people find a motor home vacation more enjoyable.
▪ Among them will be a pair of motor homes, one for the team and one for the engine manufacturer.
▪ He is not, however, selling his old motor home.
oil
▪ In Ugaraspitiya, residents said armed men poured motor oil into ballot boxes.
pool
▪ We stayed with our chargers, in the motor pool.
scooter
▪ He drove the motor scooter through the school playground and then to the Presbyterian parking lot.
▪ Bob Darnell lives and breathes motor scooters.
skill
▪ A child with good perceptual motor skills will effortlessly copy the sentence on the blackboard on to the paper at her desk.
▪ But a child with poor perceptual motor skills has to separate out each step in her mind.
▪ Memory for motor skills is often called procedural memory.
strip
▪ And a stroke that suddenly killed perhaps 30 percent of the neurons in the motor strip would also cause paralysis.
▪ It showed a tumor in the frontal lobe in a very awkward place: close to the motor strip and language areas.
▪ Humans have a lot of prefrontal cortex, compared to dolphins, whose motor strip is far forward in the brain.
▪ Neurons discharging in the cortical motor strip cause focal movements of the contralateral extremities.
▪ Alongside the motor strip, but just to its rear, is the sensory strip.
▪ The texts show typical maps of the sensory strip and the motor strip, but patients exhibit a lot of variability.
▪ George must have stimulated the motor strip.
▪ And the motor strip is part of the frontal lobe, forming its rear border with the parietal lobe.
system
▪ To do this, infants use their motor systems to produce a variety of purposeful actions and behaviors.
▪ So much of schoolwork in the early grades involves the motor system that it is easy to overlook other areas of competence.
▪ To help him learn to regulate his motor system, games that combine slow and fast movements work well.
vehicle
▪ Where motor vehicles are concerned, the problems are different.
▪ Later, I learned that not one of these men owned a motor vehicle.
▪ Will we see one day the government insisting that games have time limiters the way that some motor vehicles have speed limiters?
▪ More people are surviving, experts say, because of improvements in trauma care and motor vehicle safety.
▪ BHouseholds in the West also had the greatest risk of property Bcrime, which is theft, motor vehicle theft and burglary.
▪ For several decades the number of deaths resulting from motor vehicle accidents per 100, 000 population has increased.
▪ The country's economy relies on high added-value sectors such as electronics, pharmaceuticals and motor vehicles.
▪ The bill also would restrict the release of Social Security numbers by state motor vehicle departments.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ motor oil
▪ a motor vehicle
▪ The disease results in impaired motor function.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sound like a brief, deep blast from a motor horn was the only response.
▪ But isn't it time insurance companies started to treat home insurers the same way as motor insurers?
▪ Coming out of the motor home, she is staggering.
▪ For several decades the number of deaths resulting from motor vehicle accidents per 100, 000 population has increased.
▪ Later, I learned that not one of these men owned a motor vehicle.
▪ McLaren started the trend a few years ago by bringing along a motor home which, when parked, then expanded skywards.
▪ Some economists feel deep disquiet at the use of food grains to produce motor spirit.
III.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ Ships embrace their own scenario, the sea; and so do motor cars and teapots.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I motored out to deeper water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Then the breakers were all astern and Terrie was coming round to starboard to motor up the back of the reef.
▪ True, motoring has a few drawbacks.
▪ We then motored rather quickly across to the bay and got the rods into action.
▪ With epic nonchalance I motored north.