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motive power

NOUN
  1. the power or ability to move

How To Use motive power In A Sentence

  • Composition, balance, the skill of the draughtmanship, the function of the work and its emotive power are all integral.
  • Water provided the motive power for the mill.
  • The Motive Power depot at Derby Road had been disused since 1966 when the last steam locomotives were withdrawn from service.
  • It never looks half as glamorous today, now that the motive power is diesel.
  • In some ways the gentry group was the motive power behind the establishment of Hua County.
  • These changes shifted the motive power of the vessel away from oar-power and onto the three huge lateen sails.
  • You must avoid the attack by using the speed of locomotive power.
  • The matter-of-fact tone gives these accounts their particular emotive power. Times, Sunday Times
  • For motive power VRLA batteries, higher paste density of positive and higher tin content of positive grid alloy is helpful to increase the cycling life.
  • Water provided the motive power for the mill.
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