engine

[EnĀ·gine]

An engine is a machine that burns fuel to make something move. The engine in a car is the motor that makes it go.

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(Pronounced, in this sense, .) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

Noun
motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work

Noun
a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks

Noun
something used to achieve a purpose; "an engine of change"


n.
(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

n.
Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

n.
Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.

n.
A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.

v. t.
To assault with an engine.

v. t.
To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

v. t.
(Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture.


Engine

En"gine , 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. (Pronounced, in this sense, .) Natural capacity; ability; skill. [Obs.]
A man hath sapiences three, Memory, engine, and intellect also.
2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. Shak.
You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.
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. 4. (Mach.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. 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. &hand; 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.

Engine

En"gine, v. t. 1. To assault with an engine. [Obs.]
To engine and batter our walls.
2. To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another. 3. (Pronounced, in this sense, .) To rack; to torture. [Obs.] Chaucer.

(Pronounced, in this sense, .) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

To assault with an engine.

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Usage Examples

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

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Other Usage Examples

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

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