The Collaborative International Dictionary
Automobile \Au"to*mo*bile`\, n. [F.] a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.
Syn: car, auto, machine, motorcar.
Wiktionary
n. (motor car English)
Usage examples of "motor cars".
He wanted to get them building teleportation motor cars and planes.
She glanced at the motor cars nosing their way up the circular drive before the entrance of Shepheard's.
He rushed off the curb to lay hands on the motor cars as they idled.
They never talk about motor cars unless it's rally driving or the Grand Prix.
Ralph Pike's house was in darkness, but the driveway of Doctor Felix Pike's mansion was crowded with motor cars of all shapes and sizes and every light in the house was on.
If I remember my forensic medicine correctly, the exhaust gas of motor cars produces carbon monoxide at the rate of one cubic foot per minute per twenty horsepower.
Lefty stared out at the motor cars parked like giant beetles at the curbsides.
Perhaps England needs tanks, but perhaps it pays better to manufacture motor cars.
In the distance, motor cars could be heard carrying searchers, and occasionally a bloodhound broke loose in baying.
From our fleet of Daimler motor cars arrangements can be made by the hour or the day for business or sightseeing.
It was wide enough for two motor cars to pass and it spanned, in solid-flung metal grace, a deep gorge at the bottom of which, far below, a brook leaped in white water through rocks and boulders down to the main stream of the pass.