motor-minded

American  

[moh-ter-mahyn-did] / ˈmoʊ tərˌmaɪn dɪd /

adjective

1. disposed to perceive one's environment in terms of mechanical or muscular activity.

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Other Word Forms

• motor-mindedness
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of motor-minded

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Example Sentences

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motor-minded

Somewhere else among the Dean's motor-minded messages upon Good & Evil there occurs the traffic-signal metaphor that gives the work its title.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the turn of the century when the harness business dwindled, his shop became "Dunhill Motorities." selling linen dusters, leather breeches, goggles, veils and gauntlets to motor-minded lords & ladies.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the "wild" trees in the world produced less than 40,000 tons last year, less than a month's supply if the motor-minded U. S. got it all.

From Time Magazine Archive

It assumes that all and especially the motor-minded can really understand only what they make, and that one can work like a peasant and think like a philosopher.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall

For example, aside from the desirable rate of advance for each person, which has already been mentioned, a student maybe eye-minded, or ear- minded, or motor-minded.

From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by Frank M. (Frank Morton) McMurry

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