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motorboard en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin mōtorder. Middle English motour English motor Proto-Germanic *burdą Proto-West Germanic *bord Old English bord Middle English bord English board English motorboard From motor + board.

Meanings

1. The mount that holds the motor on a record player.
   • In order to align this receiver for I.F. the four wood screws holding the motorboard to the cabinet will have to be removed. 1935, John Francis Rider, Perpetual Trouble Shooter's Manual - Volume 12, page 236:
   • Home-made rubber washers act as shock absorbers and prevent vibrations of the motor from being transmitted to the motorboard and so reaching the pickup. 1957, Alfred Powell Morgan, The boys' second book of radio and electronics, page 224:
   • The fixed operating speeds of 33 1/3 and 45 rpm are selected by a sliding plate on the motorboard that shifts the neoprene belt to the required diameter of the motor shaft. 1975, Consumer guide--the best of high fidelity equipment, page 134:
2. A circuit board that controls one or more motors.
   • Each Motorboard is able to control six motors and to read in their sensory information. 2009, Achim Gottscheber, Stefan Enderle, David Obdrzalek, Research and Education in Robotics -- EUROBOT 2008, →ISBN:
   • For instance, employees were using computers powered by motorboard batteries and stocking shelves in the same way as they had done for the past 15 years. 2012, O. C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich, Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases, →ISBN:
   • This is the urban beach in a complexity of tide flows and appearances. I am a storm bath with a nervous motorboard. 2013, Joe Kerr, Andrew Gibson, London From Punk to Blair, →ISBN, page 276:
3. A motorized surfboard or scooter.
   • From green cars, motorboard commuting, to the Luxim microwave bulb — this site merges technology with environmental consciousness to get its own unique version of green-ology. 2007, Cooperative Living - Volume 62, page 30:
   • The Motorboard's throttle may be operated from a sitting, prone or standing position and will shut off when the operator leaves the board. 1969 January, “Jet Board Corporation”, in MotorBoating, volume 123, number 1, page 371:
   • Inventor Gilpin risks new suit to show off his new motorboard. 1948 June 14, “Loafer's surfboard”, in Life Magazine, volume 24, number 24:
   • She roared toward King Spud on her Motorboard. “Here I come!” 2014, Tony Abbott, The Brain That Wouldn't Obey!, →ISBN:
4. An outboard motor.
   • She got in at 6 and around 7 I gave up in disgust and hired a motorboard boat. 2008, Daniel V. Gallery, Robert Shenk, Playships of the World, →ISBN:
   • A pump unit for a motorboard having a screw disposed in the water when the motorboat is in the water, the screw constituting a propeller for moving the boat along in the water and constituting an impeller when the pump unit claimed hereinbelow is applied thereto, the motorboat also having a structure mountin the screw, the axis of rotation of the screw determing a longitudinal direction extending fore and aft... 1987, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office:
   • If you think of an outboard motorboard as a lever, the propeller is the thrust point and the transom is the fulcrum. 1979 April, Gary Garbrecht, “MotorBoating”, in Outboard Power: How To, volume 143, number 4, page 174:

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