motores

A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.

(now colloquial outside attributive use) A motor car, or automobile, sometimes extended to other powered vehicles, such as goods vehicles.

(figuratively) A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force.

Any protein capable of converting chemical energy into mechanical work.

(prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".

(Christianity, archaic, poetic) The controller or prime mover of the universe; God.

Alternative form of Mator (“Samoyedic language”). [A Uralic Samoyedic language, extinct since the 1840s, formerly spoken in the northern region of the Sayan Mountains in Siberia, close to the Mongolian north border.]

(biology) Relating to the ability to move.

(nautical) Propelled by an internal combustion engine (as opposed to a steam engine or turbine).

(informal, figurative) To progress at a brisk pace.

(slang) To leave.

(transitive, aviation) To rotate a jet engine or turboprop using the engine's starter, without introducing fuel into the engine.

(dated) To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive.