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.
1 [Leonard] Bloomfield (1933) defines a native language as one learned on one's mother's knee, and claims that no one is perfectly sure in a language that is acquired later. ' 2 The first language a human being learns to speak is his native language; he is a native speaker of this language' (1933: 43).iUniverse, 2000). Definition. In most cases, the language that a person acquires in early childhood because it is spoken in the family and/or it is the language of the region where the child lives. Also known as a mother tongue, first language, or arterial language.