Agreed.

From Wikipedia- and this also coincides with what I was taught in engineering.

 

i do have to agree that motors are electric and engines are internal combustion but internal combustion is referd to as a mototr more offten then engine. there refered to motor mounts not engine mounts, most people are called motor heads not engine heads, its a motorcycle not enginecycle, like stated above its motor city not engine city

 

Yeah, just one of those things. Like on a bike; you've got a seat post tube which holds the saddle.

 

The problem with the over-technical definitions like this is that thermodynamics screws you over; engines don't make their own energy, they just convert energy that plants captured through photosynthesis. Internal combustion engines are a form of heat engine, as are Sterling engines, electric engines, air engines, steam engines, et cetera; if you want to get technical enough, then there's not enough difference between hydraulic theory, pneumatic theory and electrical theory to use them to differentiate between "motor" and "engine".

Anybody who feels like nit-picking between "motor" and "engine" is uselessly sidetracking the conversation. It's like when a college professor is writing a proof of Euler's Theorem on the chalk board...
...and some immature brat who has no idea what's going on, but is desperate to assert superiority anyways, gives the professor crap about misspelling "integer" and not tacking an "e" on the end of "therefor".

 

ive never been called a brat before i find that to be rather funny. and ive never had some one fallow me on the internet posting in every little thing i say. please go away! i dont get how im being superior and i dont get why you cant just *** off! u live to close to me to talk the way you do now please stop. i dont want things to got heated here. you voiced your opinion now lets see what the next guy has to say.

 

Let's start this whole conversation over. Is a "bike" a motorcycle or a bicycle.

 

you realize uncle bubba your asking a question that can make this conversation go on and on and on but to me thats another question that depends on which one your looking at

 

I was referring to a bicycle though.

 

Hmmm kinda like the difference between motor and engine eh. As long as it stay in good humor and without personal attacks this thread can go on forever.

So what's a bike.

 

thats right so powermad dont you go getting upset on us