A Topical Dictionary: Search for Engine

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Image:Mercedes V6 DTM Rennmotor 1996.jpg|thumb|An automobile engine.

English

Etymology

, from engin, which is from ingenium meaning 'talent, device'. Ingenium is derived from in- meaning 'in' and gignere meaning 'beget'. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity,cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.

Pronunciation

w:IPA_chart_for_English|IPA: /'ɛn.dʒin/, w:SAMPA/English|SAMPA: /"En.dZIn/.
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-engine.ogg

Noun

Image:Miniature Railway.JPG|thumb|Miniature train engine

A mechanical device used to produce rotation to move vehicle or otherwise provide the force needed to generate kinetic energy.
A powered locomotive used for pulling cars on railways.
A person or group of people which influence a larger group.
informal: the brain or heart.

Derived terms

Translations

Bosnian: {{t-|bs|motor|m}}
Croatian: {{t-|hr|motor|m}}
Czech: {{t-|cs|motor|m}}
Dutch: {{t+|nl|motor|m}}, {{t+|nl|aandrijving|f}}
Finnish:
French: {{t+|fr|moteur|m}}
Galician: {{t-|gl|motor|xs=Galician}}
German: {{t+|de|Motor|m}}, {{t+|de|Triebwerk|n}}
Interlingua: motor
Italian: {{t+|it|motore|m}}

Latvian: dzinējs , motors
Norwegian: {{t-|no|motor|m}}
Portuguese: {{t+|pt|motor|m}}
Romanian: {{t+|ro|motor|n}}
Russian: {{t+|ru|двигатель|m|sc=Cyrl}}
Serbian:
: Cyrillic: мотор#Serbian|мотор
: Roman: motor#Serbian|motor
Slovene: {{t+|sl|motor|m}}
Spanish: {{t+|es|motor|f}}
Swedish: {{t+|sv|motor|n}}

Czech: {{t+|cs|lokomotiva|f}}
Dutch: {{t+|nl|locomotief|m}}
Finnish:
French: {{t+|fr|locomotive|f}}
Galician: {{t+|gl|locomotora|xs=Galician}}
German: {{t+|de|Lokomotive|f}}, {{t+|de|Lok|f}}
Interlingua: locomotiva
Italian: {{t+|it|motrice|f}}, {{t-|it|locomotiva|f}}

Portuguese: {{t+|pt|locomotiva|f}}
Romanian: {{t+|ro|motor|n}}
Slovene: {{t+|sl|lokomotiva|f}}
Spanish: {{t-|es|locomotora|m}}
Swedish: {{t+|sv|lok|c}}, {{t+|sv|lokomotiv|c}}

French: {{t+|fr|moteur|m}}
German: {{t+|de|Motor|m}}

Italian: {{t+|it|motore|m}}
Swedish: {{t+|sv|motor|n}}

French: {{t+|fr|moteur|m}}

Latvian: {{t-|lv|motors|m|xs=Latvian}}

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Category:1000 English basic words

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Engine \En"gine\ ([e^]n"j[i^]n), n. [F. engin skill, machine,
engine, L. ingenium natural capacity, invention; in in + the
root of gignere to produce. See Genius, and cf.
Ingenious, Gin a snare.]
1.

Note: (Pronounced, in this sense, [e^]n*j[=e]n".) Natural
capacity; ability; skill. [Obs.]
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A man hath sapiences three,
Memory, engine, and intellect also. --Chaucer.
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2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or
contrivance; a machine; an agent. --Shak.
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You see the ways the fisherman doth take
To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
--Bunyan.
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Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all
these engines of lust. --Shak.
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3. Any instrument by which any effect is produced;
especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.
"Terrible engines of death." --Sir W. Raleigh.
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4. (Mach.) A compound machine by which any physical power is
applied to produce a given physical effect.
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Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the
engineer of a locomotive.

Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe.

Engine tool, a machine tool. --J. Whitworth.

Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by
means of a rose engine.
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Note: The term engine is more commonly applied to massive
machines, or to those giving power, or which produce
some difficult result. Engines, as motors, are
distinguished according to the source of power, as
steam engine, air engine, electro-magnetic engine; or
the purpose on account of which the power is applied,
as fire engine, pumping engine, locomotive engine; or
some peculiarity of construction or operation, as
single-acting or double-acting engine, high-pressure or
low-pressure engine, condensing engine, etc.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Engine \En"gine\, v. t.
1. To assault with an engine. [Obs.]
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To engine and batter our walls. --T. Adams.
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2. To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam
vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and
engined by another.
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3. (Pronounced, in this sense, ?????.) To rack; to torture.
[Obs.] --Chaucer.
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WordNet engine
n 1: motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
2: something used to achieve a purpose; "an engine of change"
3: a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that
is used to draw trains along railway tracks [syn: locomotive,
locomotive engine, railway locomotive]

Moby Dictionary
AC motor , Corliss engine , Otto engine , Wankel engine , aeromotor ,
air engine , alembic , anvil , apparatus , appliance , arc-jet engine ,
axial-flow turbojet , beam engine , bearings , blowing engine , boiler ,
caldron , cam , cam engine , camshaft , capacitor motor ,
commutator motor , compensated motor , compound motor ,
condensing engine , connecting rod , convenience , crankcase ,
crankshaft , crucible , cylinder , cylinder head , diagonal engine ,
differential , direct-acting engine , donkey engine , drive , dynamo ,
dynamotor , electric motor , enginery , facility , fire engine ,
fixture , flywheel , gas jet , gas turbine engine , gearbox , gears ,
generator , hot-air engine , hydraulic engine , hydro-jet ,
impulse duct engine , inverted engine , ion engine , ion rocket , jet ,
lathe , locomotive , machine , machinery , mechanical aid ,
mechanical device , mechanism , melting pot , mortar , motive power ,
motor , outboard motor , pancake engine , piston , piston engine ,
piston rod , piston-valve engine , plasma engine , portable engine ,
power plant , power source , propeller-jet engine , propjet ,
pulse-jet engine , pumping engine , radial engine , ramjet ,
ramjet engine , reciprocating engine , refrigerating engine ,
resojet engine , retort , rocket engine , rocket motor , rotary engine ,
rotary-piston engine , rotor motor , servomotor , shunt motor ,
steam engine , supercharged engine , synchronous motor , test tube ,
three-phase motor , traction engine , transducer , transformer ,
transmission , turbine , turbojet , turbojet engine , turboprop ,
utility , variable-speed motor , vernier engine , vertical engine

Jargon engine n. 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'.

The hacker 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'.

FOLDOC engine

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".

[Jargon File]

(1996-05-31)