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Definition: MOTO |
MOTONoun1. Movement; manner of movement; particularly, movement with increased rapidity; -- used especially in the phrase con moto, directing to a somewhat quicker movement; as, andante con moto, a little more rapidly than andante, etc. |
Date "MOTO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Moto \Mo"to\, noun. [Italian]. (references) |
Crosswords: MOTO |
| English words defined with "MOTO": John Marquand, John Philip Marquand ♦ Marquand. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MOTO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (catchword, device, motto), Esperanto (motto), French (bike, hog, motorbike, motorcycle), Italian (exercise, motion, motorbike, motorcycle, motorcycles, movement, revolt, rising), Portuguese (motorcycle, motto, scooter), Romanian (quotation), Serbo-Croatian (motto), Spanish (motorbike, motorcycle, scooter), Swahili (fire). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Kindry do it yourself, Mr. Moto! (The Karate Kid; writing credit: Robert Mark Kamen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Eu E a Moto (1972) The Return of Mr. Moto (1965) Ika naru hoshi no moto ni (1962) Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939) Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Workmen installing the battleship's forward 16"/50 gun turrets, while she was fitting out at the New York Navy Yard, circa Autumn 1942. View looks aft and to port, with the number two turret in the center of the view and the forward fire control tower at left. Note "Moto Crane" in lower left. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Moto Night" by Rene Martinez Commentary: "Night shot KTM." | "Moto cross" by Radek Bayek Commentary: "Well, it was just a man that flew over my head but I was also fast;-)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "MOTO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "MOTO" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.14% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 38.1% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Unclassified Items | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Moto Photo, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "MOTO": moto truck ♦ Mr. Moto. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "MOTO": moto-cross, moto-perpetuo. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
moto | 1,421 | agusta moto mv | 69 |
moto gp | 1,270 | 2 box cheat gp moto x | 66 |
moto guzzi | 823 | 3 cheat gp moto | 66 |
moto gp 2 | 400 | agusta moto mv uk | 65 |
moto racer | 229 | moto mv uk | 65 |
honda moto | 144 | gp3 moto | 62 |
moto x | 134 | club moto | 59 |
2 cheat gp moto | 130 | international moto | 56 |
moto gp 3 | 124 | moto racer 2 | 54 |
moto racer 3 | 124 | moto trial | 51 |
gp2 moto | 116 | moto tuning | 50 |
moto photo | 104 | f4 moto mv | 50 |
moto occasion | 104 | announce moto | 47 |
moto guzzi motorcycle | 97 | moto suzuki | 46 |
assurance moto | 94 | moto usate | 45 |
yamaha moto | 82 | argus moto | 45 |
bmw moto | 76 | cheat gp moto | 45 |
auto moto | 74 | 2 box gp moto x | 43 |
hebdo moto | 70 | alarme moto | 41 |
moto mv | 69 | pro moto billet | 41 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "MOTO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | camion (moto truck). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otomay.(various references) | |
Vietnamese | xe buýt (autobus, moto-bus, ridden, ride, riding). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MOTO": motocross, motocrosses, motoneuron, motoneuronal, motoneurons, motor, motorbike, motorbiked, motorbikes, motorbiking, motorboat, motorboater, motorboaters, motorboating, motorboatings, motorboats, motorbus, motorbuses, motorbusses, motorcade, motorcaded, motorcades, motorcading, motorcar, motorcars, motorcycle, motorcycled, motorcycles, motorcycling, motorcyclist, motorcyclists, motordom, motordoms, motored, motoric, motorically, motoring, motorings, motorise, motorised, motorises, motorising, motorist, motorists, motorization, motorizations, motorize, motorized, motorizes, motorizing, motorless. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MOTO": dynamotor, dynamotors, ideomotor, locomotor, locomotory, nonmotorized, oculomotor, psychomotor, pulmotor, pulmotors, sensorimotor, servomotor, servomotors, trimotor, trimotors, vasomotor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "MOTO" (pronounced 'Mo"to'): Agitato, Allegretto, Anito, Araguato, Arnatto, Assiento, Avigato, Ayuntamiento, Bassetto, Basto, Braziletto, Busto, Canoncito, Canto, Carapato, Castrato, Cavetto, Cento, Cinquecento, Concerto, Concetto, Contrafagetto, Cornuto, Corvetto, Couranto, Devoto, Ferretto, Flauto, Fugato, Giusto, graffito, grotto, gusto, impasto, inamorato, junto, larghetto, legato, lento, libretto, lotto, manifesto, Manto, Marcato, memento, Misurato, moderato, molto, mosquito, Motto. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: moot, toom. | |
| Words within the letters "m-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: moo, mot, oot, tom, too. | |
-2 letters: mo, om, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: molto, moots, motor, motto. | |
+2 letters: bottom, mooted, mooter, motion, motmot, motors, mottos, mouton, ostomy, smooth, tomato, tomboy, tomcod, vomito. | |
+3 letters: amotion, boomlet, bottoms, cocomat, comfort, complot, comport, compost, compote, doormat, emotion, folkmot, footman, footmen, gumboot, matzoon, metopon, mistook, momento, monitor, monocot, montero, moonlet, moonlit, moonset, mooters, mooting, motions, motmots, motored, motoric, mottoes, moutons, myosote, myotome, osmotic, osteoma, ottoman, outcome, outmode, outmost, outmove, promote, scotoma, smooths, smoothy, taproom, tearoom, timolol, tokomak, tombola, tombolo, tomboys, tomcods, tomfool, tompion, topmost, toponym, towmond, towmont, tremolo, twosome, vomitos, zootomy. | |
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