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[en-juhn]

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noun

a machine for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy or power to produce force and motion.

a railroad locomotive.

a fire engine.

any mechanical contrivance.

a machine or instrument used in warfare, as a battering ram, catapult, or piece of artillery.

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Obsolete. an instrument of torture, especially the rack.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English engin < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin ingenium nature, innate quality, especially mental power, hence a clever invention, equivalent to in- in-² + -genium, equivalent to gen- begetting (see kin) + -ium -ium

Related forms

en·gine·less, adjective

mul·ti·en·gine, noun

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The writer was trying to tell us that racing a cold engine would hasten the need for a tuneup.

The entrepreneurial spirit is still moving along, but its engine has been overhauled.

Before the plane lands, word comes that the engine is running smoothly.

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The writer was trying to tell us that racing a cold engine would hasten the need for a tuneup.

The entrepreneurial spirit is still moving along, but its engine has been overhauled.

Before the plane lands, word comes that the engine is running smoothly.

There's an engine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars locked in this train.

And that no car produces any power output without an engine in it.

The greening of the diesel engine is a return to its roots.

The engine block is cast iron because it requires half as much energy as aluminum to warm up.

For example, alterations had to be made to the engine and the fuel-filler door was moved.

First of all, a library catalog is structured differently from a search engine.

Designing a miniature engine demands more ingenuity than merely shrinking the size of the components.

The jagged edge mixes the airflow coming out of the jet engine in a way that reduces turbulence.

At the firs whiff, every engine on every train will grind to a collective halt until the track is returned.

Copying is the engine of civilization: culture is behavior duplicated.

Ford is developing its smallest engine ever, a wee little three-cylinder mill with the displacement of a soda bottle.

On average, about a quarter of every college's budget goes to buying the goods and services that keep the engine cranking.

The engine block has to be made stronger and heavier to withstand the higher internal stresses.

If the engine fails to ignite, there will be no return to earth for the two astronauts.

High stability is typical of the work of the quantum engine.

One hears the throaty rumble of an old but powerful engine.

Yes, traditional twin engine aircraft are considered safe because the second engine offers redundancy.

Without fanfare or countdown the crane operator throttled up the diesel engine and pulled a lever.

Therefore it is logical to treat the atmosphere as a heat engine.

No engine in the great room makes a sound, and yet it's impossible not to hear a whole century's worth of roar and buzz and whine.

While watching convicts rowing galleys there, he began speculating on how the newfangled steam engine could power boats.

New engine technology makes wind power more efficient in any weather.

Climbing in and out of the lander would have mucked them up as well as the engine blast when the lander lifted off to come home.

As soon as the driver lifts his or her foot off the brake pedal, the engine restarts.

The engine restarts as the driver's foot leaves the brake but before it touches the gas pedal.

He said propane is better than gasoline for an engine because it lacks as many impurities and doesn't cause engine residue.

The present new invention is nothing less than a cold steam engine.

If skydiving doesn't quite do it for you, you could always strap a jet engine to your chest.

With a turn of the key, its diesel engine springs to life.

The engine in a top-fuel dragster simply needs more of it.

The thrust from a plasma engine is equivalent to the weight of a sheet of paper resting on your palm.

The struggling search engine tries anew to compete with its giant rivals.

But faulty engine nozzles or other damage to the engine could make that impossible.

Yet the human ear can hear and process sounds ranging from a pin drop to the roar of a jet engine.

There was no engine under the hood, but lying on its side in the.

Has anyone else tried the search engine mentioned in this article.

Like many hybrids, a petrol engine is installed to extend its range.

They cranked up the four-cylinder gasoline engine that had been especially designed and built for the flying machine.

Pedestrians, used to loud engine noise, have less warning when a car powered by a hybrid or electric motor approaches.

One of the engine housings will grace a water feature in the main courtyard.

Just because auto engine technology has been stable for a long time does not prevent innovators from trying to make improvements.

Third solution spilt water in engine let oxygen out, let hydrogen react with hot and compressed air in jetengine.

Angelsoft has created an investor search engine for entrepreneurs to sort and filter venture capital and angel groups.

The fact is that education changes lives and sparks the creativity and energy that feed the engine of our economy.

The car is a hybrid, combining a petrol engine with an electric motor that powers it at.

It also happens to be the cleanest diesel engine on the planet.

The engine had a fifth as many moving parts as a piston unit.

Offenhauser's name is on the racing engine that has.

Any diesel engine can burn it with less soot than regular diesel.

The spacecraft's primary mission is to test new technologies, including an ion engine and minaturized electronics.

The brilliant clouds likely formed from the hundreds of tons of water vapor emitted from the shuttle's engine during takeoff.

The tail engine is disposed in front of the rear tail units on the upper part of the tail of the fuselage.

The distance between people and cultures grew ever smaller as aviation proved to be a true engine of globalization.

Honor is the engine that drives us to make and share discoveries.

It isn't only children playing with toy cars who make engine noises.

Cold fusion is nonsense, and the internal combustion engine will be with us for a long time to come.

After starting the year with the announcement of the first engine.

We had slipped into a part of the world that mercifully the internal combustion engine had failed to conquer.

He and others favor moving away from today's typical car design, a big gasoline engine driving the wheels, to electric cars.

Information is organized by medical problem, discipline or organ system, and the site features a solid search engine.

Any unmodified diesel engine can use biodiesel, which can also be mixed in any proportion with regular diesel.

There is no reason, why the oxygen engine cannot run perpetual.

Full hybrids could run on battery power alone at low speeds, with the main engine shut down.

Electric vehicle technology will not replace the diesel truck fleets or piston engine airplanes or stationary power units.

Use a search engine to find images that are representative of each climate type.

The engine is in the weel, and it will do still turning hope this helped.

Snow and ice could clog the water-cooled engine, and engine failure usually meant.

Ariffin tied the speedboat to the tanker's railing and scrambled aboard to find the engine room.

China is gearing up to turn its northeastern rust belt into the country's next engine of growth.

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World English Dictionary

engine (ˈɛndʒɪn)

—n
1.	any machine designed to convert energy, esp heat energy, into mechanical work: a steam engine; a petrol engine
2.	a. a railway locomotive
	b. (as modifier): the engine cab
3.	military any of various pieces of equipment formerly used in warfare, such as a battering ram or gun
4.	obsolete any instrument or device: engines of torture

[C13: from Old French engin, from Latin ingenium nature, talent, ingenious contrivance, from in-² + -genium, related to gignere to beget, produce]

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Word Origin & History

engine

c.1300, from O.Fr. engin "skill, cleverness," also "war machine," from L. ingenium "inborn qualities, talent," from in- "in" + gen-, root of gignere "to beget, produce." At first meaning a trick or device, or any machine (especially military); sense of one that converts energy to mechanical power is

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18c., especially of steam engines.

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Science Dictionary

engine (ěn'jĭn) Pronunciation Key
A machine that turns energy into mechanical force or motion, especially one that gets its energy from a source of heat, such as the burning of a fuel. The efficiency of an engine is the ratio between the kinetic energy produced by the machine and the energy needed to produce it. See more at internal-combustion engine , steam engine., See also motor.

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Computing Dictionary

engine definition

jargon
1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of front end. Today we have, especially, "print engine": the guts of a laser printer.
2. An analogous piece of software; notionally, one that does a lot of noisy crunching, such as a "database engine", or "search engine".
The hackish senses of "engine" are actually close to its original, pre-Industrial-Revolution sense of a skill, clever device, or instrument (the word is cognate to "ingenuity"). This sense had not been completely eclipsed by the modern connotation of power-transducing machinery in Charles Babbage's time, which explains why he named the stored-program computer that he designed in 1844 the "Analytical Engine".
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