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Definition: Engine |
EngineNoun1. Motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work. 2. Something used to achieve a purpose: "an engine of change". 3. Wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine used to draw trains along railway tracks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "engine" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | 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'. Source: Jargon File. |
Aerospace | A machine or apparatus that converts energy, especially heat energy, into work. Also called motor. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of an engine, denotes you will encounter grave difficulties and journeys, but you will have substantial friends to uphold you. Disabled engines stand for misfortune and loss of relatives. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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The Phoenix was an adaptation of the Bristol Aeroplane Company's Pegasus engine, adapted to run on the Diesel cycle. Only a few were built between 1928 and 1932, although samples fitted to a Westland Wapiti held the altitude record for Diesel powered planes from 1934 until WWII. The primary advantage of the Phoenix was better fuel economy at cruise, up to 35%.
Specifications
- Bore / Stroke / Displacement: 5.75" x 7.5", 1753 cu in (28.7 litre)
- Compression ratio: 14:1
- HP: 470 hp at(unknown) RPM
- Weight: (unknown)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bristol Phoenix."
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An engine is something that produces some effect, normally called work, from a given input. In automobiles this effect is rotational torque which causes motion. The origin of engineering was the working of engines.
There is an overlap in English between two meanings of the word "engineer": 'those who operate engines' and 'those who design and construct new items'. The word "engine" is also sometimes used to refer to a device that performs a particular task (not "work" in the physics sense). This usage is particularly prevalent in computer science, where terms like search engine, "3-D graphics rendering engine" and "text-to-speech engine" are common.
Typical car engines include reciprocating piston, rotary engines, orbital, also inline, horizontally opposed, V2, V8 up to V16. All of these configurations refer to the movement of the pistons within the cylinder block.
A special case is the air engine which is driven by compressed air.
see also:
- Diesel engine
- Electric motor
- Internal-combustion engine
- Gasoline/Petrol engine
- Steam engine
- Timeline of motor and engine technology
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Engine."
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In computing, a game engine is the core software component of a computer game. It typically handles rendering and may handle additional tasks such as AI, collision detection between game objects, etc. The most common element that a game engine provides is graphics rendering facilities (2D or 3D).The term arose in the mid-1990s, especially in connection with 3D games such as first-person shooters. Such was the popularity of id Software's Doom and Quake games that rather than work from scratch, other developers licensed the core portions of the software and designed their own graphics, characters, weapons and levels—the "game content" or "game assets."
Later games, such as Quake 3 and Epic's 1998 Unreal were designed with this approach in mind, with the engine and content developed separately. The licencing of such technology has proved to be a useful auxiliary revenue stream for some game developers. At the very least, reusable engines make developing game sequels much easier and faster, a valuable advantage in the competitive computer game industry.
The continued refinement of game engines has allowed a strong separation between rendering, scripting, artwork, and level design. It is now common (as of 2003), for example, for a typical game development team to be composed of artists and programmers in an 80/20 ratio.
A practical definition of a game engine is whatever most game developers would prefer not to write (as opposed to the things that make their game seminal, such as levels, artwork, textures, animation, sound tracks, etc.). The extreme realization of this idea has been for some game developers to take existing games and simply modify their art resources.
Game engine development is a popular project amongst computer science students, hobbyists, and game developers alike. It can require strong interdisciplanry understanding of geometry, color theory, and computing. Being largely visual, however, these developers consider it fun and rewarding. Crystal Space, for example, is a popular open source multiplatform game engine.
See also: game programmer, game designer, video game developer, video game publisher, level designer
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Game engine."
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An internal-combustion engine is any engine that operates by burning its fuel inside the engine. This can be contrasted with external combustion engines such as steam engines and Stirling engines, which burn their fuel outside the engine. Jet engines and gas turbines use internal combustion, but the term 'internal-combustion engine' is normally used only to refer to engines in which combustion is intermittent (and usually featuring reciprocating machinery).
The de Havilland Gypsy Queen engine, powering Dove and Heron propeller aircraft.
Larger versionThe most common internal combustion engines are the gasoline powered engine and the diesel engine. Others include those fueled by hydrogen, methane, propane, etc. Engines typically can only run on one type of fuel and require adaptations to adjust the air/fuel ratio or mix to use other fuels.
In a gasoline engine, a mixture of gasoline and air, controlled by a throttle, is inducted into a cylinder.
This is compressed by a piston and at optimal point in the compression stroke, a spark plug creates an electrical spark that ignites the fuel.
The combustion of the fuel results in the generation of heat, and the hot gases that are in the cylinder are then at a higher pressure than the fuel-air mixture and so drive the piston back down.
These combustion gases are vented and the fuel-air mixture reintroduced to run a second stroke. The outward linear motion of the piston is ordinarily harnessed by a crankshaft to produce circular motion. Valves control the intake of air-fuel mixture and allow exhaust gases to exit at the appropriate times.
A critically important portion of any internal-combustion engine is its ignition system, which controls the timing of the burning of the fuel mixture. If this burn begins either too early or too late the engine performance will be reduced, sometimes seriously, and in extreme cases can even damage the engine.
Some types of ignition systems that have been or are used in internal-combustion engines are:
;Outside flame ignitors
;Hot-tube ignitors
- Early mechanical ignition system, soon replaced by the:
;Electrical ignitorss
- Early ignition system, these were used on some engines until the time of the First World War.
;Compression heating ignition
- The precise control these provide soon made all earlier devices obsolete. All modern internal-combustion engines (except the diesel) use them.
See also: two stroke cycle, four stroke cycle, straight engine, V engine, diesel cycle, rotary engine, Wankel engine, Miller cycle, stratified charge engine, Engine tuning and Gas Laws, Samuel Morey
- Only used in diesel engines. Actual timing controlled by fuel injection system.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Internal-combustion engine."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ENGINE | English | ENergy Generation In the Natural Environment | Environment |
| N/A engine | English | Naturally aspirated engine | Transportation |
| ENG | English | Engine | Transportation |
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Synonyms: EngineSynonyms: locomotive (n), locomotive engine (n), railway locomotive (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Experiment | Feeler; trial balloon, pilot balloon, messenger balloon; pilot engine; scout; straw to show the wind. |
Impulse | Hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; (weapon); ax; (sharp). |
Instrument | Instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine. |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Extincteur; fire annihilator; amianth, amianthus; earth-flax, mountain-flax; asbestos; fireman, fire fighter, fire eater, fire department, fire brigade, engine company; pumper, fire truck, hook and ladder, aerial ladder, bucket; fire hose, fire hydrant. |
Misuse | Cut blocks with a razor, employ a steam engine to crack a nut; catch at a straw. |
Numeration | Abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick, tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-pan; adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator, computer; |
Redundancy | Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste). |
Regression | Propeller, screw, twin screws, turbine, jet engine. |
Traveler | Driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier, vetturino, condottiere; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman. |
Waste | Waste its sweetness on the desert air ; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain; (useless); cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Single shot to the engine block (Black Hawk Down; writing credit: Ken Nolan) Here's what we do. We leave the car here, we take the plates off, we scratch the serial number off the engine block, and we walk away (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) When the speed limit's 25, she goes 24. When she drives by a hospital, she turns off the engine and coasts because the sign says Quiet (Sister Kate; writing credit: Annika Idström; Solja Kievari) The Who will be playing tonight at Springfield's historic Yahoo Search Engine Arena (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) No joy on all scenarios for engine ignition (Red Planet; writing credit: Chuck Pfarrer) | |
Lyrics | But a V8 engine is a good start for me. (Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now); performing artist: Cracker) When the money ran out and the engine blew (That's The Way; performing artist: Jo Dee Messina) Revvin' up your engine (Danger Zone; performing artist: Kenny Loggins) A car was stalled, the engine was dead (Last Kiss; performing artist: Pearl Jam) | |
Clever | My "check engine" light came on the other day. I popped the hood, and looked, the engine is STILL there! Silly light. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ivor the Engine (1958) Hu Weiqian Smashes the Engine Room (1939) The Gasoline Engine (1917) When Death Rode the Engine (1914) Glasgow Fire Engine (1898) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pilot Plasma Engine. Credit: NASA. |  | Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Test Firing. Credit: NASA. |
 | William M. Scaife As young officer on SIALIA Aftermath of helping out in the engine room. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | "After drying engine, truck pulled out with no trouble" White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Part of the fishing infrastructure at Fairhaven - diesel engine repair and maintenance as well as being a one-stop shop for boat maintenance. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Looking past P-3 starboard outboard engine to various aircraft. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | No. 1 engine loitered during mission to conserve fuel. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | The marsh buggy on stand-by. The diesel engine is at the rear of the buggy allowing the buggy access to deep-water areas. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Interior of the pilot-house, steam steering engine. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate VI, p. 111. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Dredging engine. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate XXIII, p. 111. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Engine" by Persist Persist Commentary: "An antique truck engine. Straight six. Dual carbs. Taken October, 2002." | "Wheels of a steam engine" by Csongor Varga Commentary: "Czech stream loko in the Lokopark at Budapest. Steam Loko Parade at 2002." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Car revving its engine then tires squealing. | | Jet take off; jet engine; airplane take off; the afterburn of a jet after takeoff. |
| Fighter jet engine noise. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Ben Jonson | O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! |
Charles Francis Adams | The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. |
Steven Wright | I once got pulled over and the cop said, "Why were you going so fast?" I said, "Why? Because I had my foot to the floor. Sends more gas through the carbourator. Makes the engine go faster. The whole car just takes off like that." |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In addition to the engines installed in the seaplanes or flying boats above mentioned, one spare engine may be provided for each engine of each of these craft. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom started the engine and the truck lumbered away |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Often, news items are indexed by MEDLINEplus within their search engine. (references) | |
Business | Diesel engine sales are growing above average. (references) | |
The main engine market is almost completely controlled by European producers. (references) | ||
Recently, the GoI allowed the use of single engine aircraft in Indian air space. (references) | ||
Economic History | Sweden | Examples are engine heaters for the winter and roof boxes for skis. (references) |
Mexico | Exports have been the primary engine of growth of the Mexican economy. (references) | |
Brazil | Thus, the engine of Brazilian economic growth is more and more the private sector. (references) | |
Political Economy | MEXICO | Exports, led by the "maquiladora" industry, remain Mexico's primary engine of growth. (references) |
EGYPT | Tourism is Egypt's largest foreign exchange earner, as well as a key engine of growth. (references) | |
PHILIPPINES | The excise tax treatment of automotive vehicles is based on engine displacement, rather than vehicle value. (references) | |
Trade | Hong Kong | The tax on automobiles is based on both retail price and engine size. (references) |
Uae | GE is pursuing a major engine contract with UAE's Int'l carrier, Emirates Airlines. (references) | |
Spain | Motor Vehicles: Each vehicle will be inspected for engraved serial numbers on both the engine and chassis. (references) | |
Travel | Slovak Rep | The yearly fee varies with engine size. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | Our of Democracy must be not only the envy of the world, but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. |
Dennis Miller | For all I know, the engine runs on the shrieking souls of the damned. |
Rush Limbaugh | Rich or poor, free or enslaved, north or south, oil is literally the fuel of the engine of human activity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Let's roll up our sleeves and go to work, and put America's economic engine at full throttle. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | In the Far East and Africa, it's time for the full flowering of free governments and free markets that have served the engine of progress. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our democracy must not only be the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. |
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| "Engine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "Engine" is used about 5,007 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.86% | 5,000 | 1,963 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,007 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Orbital Engine Corporation Limited | China | Shanghai Diesel Engine Company Limited |
| USA | Cummins Engine Co. Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "engine": a reconditioned engine ♦ Air engine ♦ aircraft engine ♦ Ammoniacal engine ♦ analytic engine ♦ analytical Engine ♦ Applicative Language Idealised Computing Engine ♦ Atmospheric engine ♦ automobile engine ♦ auxiliary engine ♦ ballast engine ♦ Beam engine ♦ beer engine ♦ bleaching engine ♦ blowing engine ♦ Bogie engine ♦ booster engine ♦ breaker engine ♦ buried engine ♦ bypass engine ♦ Caloric engine ♦ Carding engine ♦ combustion engine ♦ combustion motor engine ♦ compound engine ♦ Condensing engine ♦ control inference engine ♦ conventional engine ♦ Cornish engine ♦ critical engine ♦ cycloidal engine ♦ Cylinder engine ♦ Diesel engine ♦ difference engine ♦ Disk engine ♦ Dividing engine ♦ donkey engine ♦ Draft engine ♦ Draught engine ♦ Duplex pumping engine ♦ Efficiency of a heat engine ♦ employ a steam engine to crack a nut ♦ engine block ♦ engine builder ♦ engine change unit ♦ engine control system ♦ engine cooling system ♦ engine cowl ♦ engine cowling ♦ engine crew ♦ engine design ♦ Engine driver ♦ engine failure ♦ engine fitter ♦ engine fumes ♦ engine horse power ♦ engine house ♦ engine is on fire! ♦ engine is on flames! ♦ Engine lathe ♦ engine mount ♦ engine mountings ♦ engine nacelle ♦ engine oil ♦ engine power ♦ engine pressure ratio ♦ engine rebuilder ♦ engine room ♦ engine shaft ♦ engine starting system ♦ Engine tool ♦ engine torque ♦ engine trouble ♦ Engine turning ♦ engine vibration indication system ♦ epitrochoidal engine ♦ equipped engine ♦ Ether engine ♦ fire engine ♦ fit with an engine ♦ Flame engine ♦ Forcing engine ♦ Garden engine ♦ gas engine ♦ gas turbine engine ♦ Gasolene engine ♦ gasoline engine ♦ gasoline petrol engine ♦ generic inference engine ♦ give the engine the gun ♦ Goods engine ♦ Graduating engine ♦ Grasshopper engine ♦ heat engine ♦ hoisting engine ♦ Horizontal engine ♦ horizontally opposed engine ♦ hydraulic jet engine for motor boats ♦ hypersonic ramjet engine ♦ inference engine ♦ internal combustion engine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "engine": engine-based, engine-bay, engine-boilers, engine-builder, engine-capacity, engine-chargers, engine-cover, engine-driven, engine-driver, engine-drivers, engine-driving, engine-handling, engine-house, engine-houses, engine-idling, engine-maker, engine-mount, engine-note, engine-off, engine-on, engine-out, engine-room, engine-shed, Engine-sized, engine-stoker, engine-stripping, engine-thunder, Engine-type generator, engine-weight, engine-wright. | |
Ending with "engine": fire-engine, re-engine, single-engine, steam-engine, twin-engine. | |
Containing "engine": ex-engine-driver, gas-engine-driven, left-engine-out. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "engine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | masjien (machine). (various references) | |
Albanian | vegël (applicator, cat's paw, doohickey, dummy, gadget, implement, instrument, Jigger, tool, utensil, utility), motori (motor), motor (motor, power plant), mjet (agent, apparatus, device, expedient, implement, instrument, intermedium, mean, means, medium, mode, modus, recipe, route, tool, touch, vehicle, wherewithal), makinë (adder, car, machine, machinery, motor, motor car, tool), lokomotivë (locomotive). (various references) | |
Arabic | محرك (incentive, motive, motor, moving), قاطرة (loco, locomotive), وسيلة (appliance, connection, connexion, contrivance, device, expedience, expediency, expedient, facility, in a way, instrument, instrumentation, intermediary, makeshift, mean, measure, modality, resource, string, tactic, twist), عامل (active, agent, cooperative, employee, fillip, hand, industrious, ingredient, laborer, labourer, process, use, working, workman), أداة ميكانيكية. (various references) | |
Basque | lokomotore (locomotive). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уред (apparatus, contraption, device, implement, instrument, mechanism), мотор (motor), машинен (engineering, machine, mechanical), машина (machine, mill), локомотив (boiler, locomotive), двигател (machine, motor, mover, power plant, propulsion). (various references) | |
Chinese | 引擎 . (various references) | |
Czech | motor (motor), lokomotiva (locomobile, locomotive). (various references) | |
Danish | maskine (machine), lokomotiv (locomotive). (various references) | |
Dutch | motor (motor, motorcycle), machine (machine), locomotief (locomotive). (various references) | |
Esperanto | motoro (motor), maŝino (machine), lokomotivo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | maskina (machine). (various references) | |
Farsi | موتور (Motor), ماشین بخار (Steamer), ماشین (Apparatus, Gin, Machine, Mechanism, Mill, Motor, Plant), نقشه کشیدن (Compass, Map, Plan, Plat, Plot, Project), تدبیرکردن (Compass, Contrive, Devise, Meditate, Workout), ذکاوت (Brain, Esprit, Sagacity, Witting), الت (Apparatus, Appliance, Implement, Instrument, Instrumental, Organ, Tool), اسباب (Apparatus, Apparel, Appliance, Appurtenance, Article, Contraption, Contrivance, Doodad, Gadget, Gear, Implement, Instrument, Layout, Paraphernalia, Rig, Tackle, Thing, Tool, Utensil). (various references) | |
Finnish | veturi (locomotive), moottori (motor), kone (machine). (various references) | |
French | moteur, machine, propulseur, locomotive. (various references) | |
Frisian | masine (machine), lokomotyf. (various references) | |
German | motor (driving force, motor), triebwerk (driving mechanism, mechanism, mover, power plant, power unit), maschine (bike, machine, machines, plane, ship, typewriter), lokomotive (locomotive, railway engine). (various references) | |
Greek | μηχανή (locomotive, machine, motor, motorbike, motorcycle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכונה (called, designated, entitled, machine, named, so called), מנוע (abstinent, motor, obviated, precluded, prevented), קטר (loco, locomotive, steam engine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gép (appliance, clips, cultivator, disintegrator, exploder, guillotine, machine), mozdony (iron horse, locomotive), motor (locomotor, motor, power equipment, sputter). (various references) | |
Icelandic | vél (machine). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mesin (machine, machinery, munition). (various references) | |
Italian | motore (driving, motor, mover, propelling), macchina (car, machine, machinery, motor, motorcar), locomotiva (locomotive, railway engine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 発動機 , 機関車 (locomotive), 機関 (facility, mechanism, organ), エンジン発動機 (angel, angel baby, angelfish, embassy, emblem, emboss, embroidery, empathy, emperor, emphasis, emphasize, empire, Empire Day, Empire State Building, empress, emptiomania, empty, empty nest, empty nest syndrome, end, end curler, end line, end user, -endian, ending, endive, endless, endless tape, endorphin, engine stop, engineering plastics, enhancement, entasis, enter, enterprise, entertainer, entertainment, entitled, entity, entrance, entropy, entry, envelope, hit-and-run, two-base entitlement), エルピー盤 (aerogram, angel, elbow, Electone, Electra complex, electric, electric guitar, electricity, electroluminescence, electron, electronic, electronic banking, electronic cooking, electronic cottage, electronic file, electronic mail, electronic money, electronic music, electronic office, electronic sound, electronics, elegance, elegant, elegy, element, elementary, elevation, elevator, elf, elm, elocution, elven, encapsulation, enclosure, encode, encoder, encoding, encounter, encyclopedia, engage, engagement, engagement ring, engine brake, engineer, engineering, engineering plastics, enjoy, erect, erection, erogenous zone, Eroica, Eros, erotic, erotic and grotesque, erotic and grotesque nonsense, erotic production, erotica, eroticism, erotism, erotomania, Herman, Hermes, ignition key, long-playing record, LP). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きかんしゃ (locomotive, returnee), きかん (already published, boiler, facility, feedback, flagship, gauge, hunger and cold, instrument, key, mainstay, mechanism, mirror, nucleus, organ, paragon, pattern, period, quarterly, repatriation, return, returning to one'sship, term, trachea, wonderful sight, your letter), エンジンはつどうき, エンジン , はつどうき. (various references) | |
Korean | 엔진 (Engines). (various references) | |
Malay | motor (motor), mesin (machine). (various references) | |
Manx | jeshaght (contraption, instrument, locomotive, machine, utensil), greie (gear, implement, instrument, tool, utensil). (various references) | |
Norwegian | motor (motor), maskin (machine). (various references) | |
Occitan | locomotritz (locomotive). (various references) | |
Papiamen | motor (motor), mashin (machine). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | engineay.(various references) | |
Polish | silnik (motor), maszyna (machine). (various references) | |
Portuguese | motor (impellent, motive, motor, mover, propellent), máquina (apparatus, clock-work, device, machine), locomotiva (iron horse, loco, locomotive). (various references) | |
Romanian | pompã de incendiu (fire engine), motor (device, driver, driving, motive, motor, mover, stimulus), mecanism (action, contrivance, device, gear, gearing, gimmick, machine, machinery, mechanism, motion, technique, work), maşinå (machine), maşinã (bus, car, crate, frame, machine, motor, motor car, passenger car), locomotivã (locomotive, steam engine, stream-liner), instrument (apparatus, appliance, device, implement, instrument, thing, tool, utensil). (various references) | |
Russian | средство (aborticide, abortifacient, agent, anorectic, cure, instrument, mean, means, medium, option, parturifacient, remedy), машинный (computer based, computer generated, computer-based, computer-generated, comtuter-generated, machinal, machine, mechanic, mechanical), машина (car, computer, machine, slimdump), паровоз (locomotive), двигатель машинный, двигатель (motor, mover, thruster, train engine). (various references) | |
Scottish | beairt (See <A HREF="mf01.html#beart">beart</A>). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | motorni (motor, power), motor (motor), mašina (machine, machinery). (various references) | |
Spanish | motor (drive shaft, driving, motional, motive, motor, moving, power unit, works), máquina (car, dolly tub, machine, railway engine). (various references) | |
Sranan | masyin (machine), loko. (various references) | |
Swahili | mtambo (machine), mashine (machine). (various references) | |
Swedish | motor (motor), maskin (machine), lokomotiv (loco, locomotive). (various references) | |
Tagalog | mákina (machine). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องจักร, หัวรถจักร. (various references) | |
Turkish | motor (motor). (various references) | |
Turkmen | motor (r) (motor). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | машина (apparatus, bus, machine), знаряддя (implement, instrument, loom, weapon), паровоз, двигун (motor, power, propeller). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phương tiện. (various references) | |
Welsh | peiriant (machine). (various references) | |
Zulu | umshini (machine), injini (motor). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ingenium, machina, machinationes. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | engin. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "engine": engined, engineer, engineered, engineering, engineerings, engineers, engineries, enginery, engines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "engine": multiengine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "engine": bioengineer, bioengineered, bioengineering, bioengineerings, bioengineers, multiengines, nonengineering, nonengineerings, overengineer, overengineered, overengineering, overengineers, reengineer, reengineered, reengineering, reengineers. (additional references) | |
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"Engine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Angaine, angine, Eggwina, egin, Ehninger, encine, Endino, enfin, engeen, engeene, engene, engener, engens, engenue, Enghin, engi, engie, engime, engin, engined, enginee, enginner, Engins, Engint, engne, enine, ensino, Entin, Ergene, Ergife, eugine, Fengmin, jenninger, Menghini, neguibe, neine, nemine, Nergina, nerine, oeningen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "engine" (pronounced e"njun or i"njun) |
| 4 | -n j u n | dungeon. |
| 3 | -j u n | allergen, antigen, bludgeon, burgeon, carcinogen, collegian, contagion, curmudgeon, dudgeon, estrogen, glycogen, gudgeon, halogen, hydrogen, imagine, legion, margin, neurosurgeon, nitrogen, origin, oxygen, pathogen, pigeon, plasminogen, region, religion, smidgen, sturgeon, surgeon, trudgen, virgin. |
| 4 | -n j u n | dungeon. |
| 3 | -j u n | allergen, antigen, bludgeon, burgeon, carcinogen, collegian, contagion, curmudgeon, dudgeon, estrogen, glycogen, gudgeon, halogen, hydrogen, imagine, legion, margin, neurosurgeon, nitrogen, origin, oxygen, pathogen, pigeon, plasminogen, region, religion, smidgen, sturgeon, surgeon, trudgen, virgin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n" | |
-1 letter: genie. | |
-2 letters: gene, gien, nene, nine. | |
-3 letters: eng, gee, gen, gie, gin, inn, nee. | |
-4 letters: en, in, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n" | |
+1 letter: engined, engines, evening, genuine, ingenue, keening, kneeing, needing, peening, weening. | |
+2 letters: antigene, beginner, emending, engineer, enginery, entering, evenings, greening, indigene, ingenues, kneeling, meninges, needling, pfennige, preening, queening, reneging, renewing, sheening, sneering, sneezing, unseeing. | |
+3 letters: antigenes, argentine, beelining, beginners, bemeaning, bengaline, careening, cementing, centering, congeeing, consignee, creneling, deadening, deafening, decerning, deepening, defending, defensing, demeaning, dementing, depending, deveining, eglantine, enameling, endearing, endogenic, engineers, engrained, enlighten, enmeshing, enserfing, expending, expensing, extending, gendering, genuinely, greenings, greenling, greenwing, grenadine, gunneries, ignescent, indigence, indigenes, inelegant, kenneling, kerneling, leavening, lessening, meningeal, neatening, needlings, negligent, neutering, reddening, redenying, reearning, refencing, relending, relenting, remending, rendering, renesting, reopening, repenting, resending, resenting, revenging, screening, secerning, syngeneic, tangerine, telneting, tendering, tentering, unfeeling, unfeigned, unfreeing, unheeding, unreeling, unreeving, unweeting, veneering, weakening. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Company Usage 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Bibliography |
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