Definition of Automobile

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Automobile

An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about to the touring car, up to as high as 200 H. P. for specially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars.

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Automobile Quotations

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
Erma Bombeck

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
Art Buchwald

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin Spock

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.
Loretta Lynn

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. Forbes

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Mark Kennedy

Automobile Translations

automobile in Afrikaans is motor
automobile in Danish is automobil, bil
automobile in Dutch is automobiel, auto
automobile in Finnish is auto
automobile in French is automobile
automobile in German is Auto {n}, selbstbeweglich
automobile in Italian is vettura
automobile in Norwegian is bil
automobile in Spanish is auto
automobile in Swedish is bil

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