engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/
ipa: /ˈɪnd͡ʒɪn/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɛnd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈend͡ʒɪn/
ipa: /ˈend͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈend͡ʒɘn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɲˈdʒɪn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɲˈdʒin/
rhymes: -ɛnd͡ʒɪn
rhymes: (pin–pen merger) -ɪnd͡ʒɪn
Forms: form: engines
Etymology: From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related to ingignō (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious, engineer.
Senses: examples: text: Their warlike Engins and munition
Exceed the forces of their martial men.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:
glosses: A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
examples: text: Flattery must be the most powerful Argument that cou'd be used to Human Creatures. Making use of this bewitching Engine, they extoll'd the Excellency of our Nature above other Animals [...].
ref: 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:
text: What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 15, lines 248–251:
glosses: A tool; a utensil or implement.
glosses: A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
examples: text: In France, the parliament soon became a mere engine in the hands of a few high-born and ambitious men, who had nothing in common with its interests, which were those of the people.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 75:
glosses: A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
glosses: The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
glosses: A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
glosses: A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
A locomotive.
examples: text: a graphics engine
text: a physics engine
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
glosses: Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
examples: text: Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Againſt his praiſe to ſtirre vp enmitye [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 193:
glosses: The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
glosses: Natural talent; genius.
examples: text: [...] their promiſes, entiſements, oathes, tokens, and all theſe engines of luſt [...].
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 243, column 1:
text: You ſee the ways the Fiſher-man doth take / To catch the Fiſh; what Engins doth he make?
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
glosses: Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
Synonyms: motor
locomotive
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of engine
word: aero engine
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word: aircraft engine
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word: air engine
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word: analytical engine
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word: atmospheric engine
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word: banking engine
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word: beam engine
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word: beer engine
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word: boxer engine
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word: chaff engine
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word: chemical engine
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word: chess engine
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word: combustion engine
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word: compound engine
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word: corncob engine
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word: Cornish engine
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word: crate engine
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word: database engine
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word: dental engine
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word: diesel engine
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word: difference engine
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word: dividing engine
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word: donkey engine
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word: draught engine
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word: duct engine
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word: East-West engine
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word: electric engine
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word: entry ignition engine
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word: ether engine
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word: fire engine
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word: four-stroke engine
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word: game engine
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word: garden engine
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word: gas engine
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word: graphics engine
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word: harmonic engine
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word: heat engine
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word: Hero engine
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word: horse engine
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word: human flesh search engine
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word: information engine
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word: in-line engine
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word: internal combustion engine
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word: internal-combustion engine
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word: ion engine
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word: jet engine
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word: light engine
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word: man engine
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word: marine engine
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word: metasearch engine
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word: military engine
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word: mill engine
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word: monkey engine
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word: Otto engine
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word: overhead engine
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word: pancake engine
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word: petrol engine
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word: physics engine
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word: pilot engine
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word: piston engine
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word: pony engine
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word: pulp engine
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word: pulse detonation engine
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word: radial engine
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word: raptor engine
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word: reaction engine
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word: reciprocating engine
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word: ringing engine
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word: rocket engine
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word: rose engine
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word: rotary engine
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word: sand engine
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word: search engine
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word: shunting engine
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word: siege engine
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word: simple engine
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word: software engine
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word: solar engine
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word: spit engine
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word: square engine
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word: stationary engine
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word: steam-engine
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word: steam engine
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word: steeple engine
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word: Stirling engine
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word: storage engine
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word: straight engine
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word: switch engine
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word: tandem engine
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word: tank engine
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word: tender engine
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word: traction engine
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word: twin-engine
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word: two-stroke engine
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word: U engine
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word: Wankel engine
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word: water engine
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word: W engine
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word: wind engine
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word: winding engine
Derived terms: sense: some may be hyponyms
word: bank engine
sense: some may be hyponyms
word: bullgine
sense: some may be hyponyms
word: Carnot engine
sense: some may be hyponyms
word: Carnot heat engine
sense: some may be hyponyms
word: crane engine
sense: some may be hyponyms
word: duplex pumping engine
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word: engine bay
sense: some may be hyponyms
word: engine block
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word: engine braking
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word: engine cleaner
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word: engine compartment
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word: engine diaper
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word: engine displacement
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word: engine driver
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word: engineer
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word: engine generator
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word: engine-generator
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word: engine hour
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word: engine house
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word: engine knock
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word: engine lathe
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word: engineless
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word: enginelike
sense: some may be hyponyms
word: engineman
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word: engine mount
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word: engine oil
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word: engine order telegraph
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word: enginer
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word: engine-rich
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word: engine room
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word: enginery
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word: engine shed
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word: engine trouble
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word: engine-turned
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word: engine turning
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word: in-engine
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word: inline engine
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word: Lenoir engine
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word: microengine
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word: midengine
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word: multiengine
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word: Novi engine
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word: one engine in steam
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word: re-engine
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word: reengine
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word: retro-engine
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word: retroengine
sense: some may be hyponyms
word: search-engine-friendly
sense: some may be hyponyms
word: search engine optimization
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word: siege-engine
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word: stellar engine
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word: V engine
Related terms: engineer
genius
ingeniosity
ingenious