exists and is an alternate of . If an electrical motor is doing more work than that for which was designed, it is said to be overloaded. An overloaded motor will become hot. Various safety devices are available to shut down an overheated motor defore it becomes damaged or starts a fire from the excess heat.
mother tongue. n. 1. (Linguistics) the language first learned by a child. 2. (Linguistics) a language from which another has evolved. mothâ²er tongue. n. the language first learned by a person; native language.
Amy Tan's Mother Tongue. In Mother Tongue, Amy Tan talks about how language influenced her life while growing up. Through pathos she explains to her audience how her experiences with her mother and the Chinese language she came to realize who she wanted to be and how she wanted to write. The author, Tan, has written the books The Joy Luck Club, and The Kitchen God's Wife.