motor-minded
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of motor-minded
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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 McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton)
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