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

Etymology

Origin of motor-minded

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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

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

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

A writer of a method article in a recent issue of The Sunday School Times related an incident of a chap whom he described as "a motor-minded boy."

From "Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues by Smith, Wade C.

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 Hall, G. Stanley