what do you call this one?
yes, ok, its a pneumatic drill...but some call it an air motor...
some call it an engine....
by that definition...a source of motive power using the potential energy of a compressed gas to produce work... a steam engine should be a steam motor... but that sounds silly, and so does air engine. what about co2 ones?
but it has valves and ports so it MUST be an engine!
what was that chinese one again?
omg, i had this horrible thought last night...chinese is a very um...non descriptive language. its the dominate language on earth... slowly the whole population will get dumbed down by this rather limited language... china wins, everyone becomes a worker in the new order, as the language simply isnt built for "thinking". oh dear...
compare latin to english when it comes to descriptive words... or german. russian....theyre all very good languages for adding on bits. like "antidisestablishment" is just lots of little words and additions to make one big word that conveys the idea. chinese might take half a page to do that... as far as im aware, an english man would say "he sauntered along with determination" the latin author would just write "he walked."
then syntax gets in the way.
determined is the walk of the man observed...
you should actually lubricate your electric drive source with a suitable oil, and "motor oil" for "motor cars" as used by "motor mechanics" is about the most readily available option...
alright....dont make any more pointless threads on a topic that is mere linguistics rather than anything of any relevance... or you might get banned the way things are going :-/