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Definition: Engine Block |
Engine BlockNoun1. A metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine; "the engine had to be replaced because the block was cracked". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Engine BlockSynonyms: block (n), cylinder block (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Engine Block |
| English words defined with "engine block": block ♦ cylinder block ♦ Guide block ♦ radiator hose ♦ vapor lock, vapour lock ♦ water jacket. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "engine block": AIR-CONDITIONING MECHANIC, automobile-refrigeration mechanic ♦ DIE SINKER ♦ eyelid reverser ♦ forging-die sinker ♦ MACHINIST, AUTOMOTIVE ♦ ROTARY-ENGINE ASSEMBLER ♦ search term. (references) |
| 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) Put a round right through the engine block. (Taxi Driver; writing credit: Paul Schrader) | |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
engine block | 77 |
dart engine block | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "engine block"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | motor (engine, impeller, motive, motor, motor boat, mover, propeller). (various references) | |
Spanish | bloque de motor. (various references) | |
Turkish | motor gövdesi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-g-i-k-l-n-n-o" | |
-2 letters: beckoning. | |
-3 letters: blocking, cleeking, clonking, kneeling, neckline. | |
-4 letters: becking, binocle, bonking, cineole, cloning, conking, englobe, ennoble, ignoble, keeling, keening, kneeing, leonine, locking, necking, nocking, obligee. | |
-5 letters: beckon, beclog, begone, belike, belong, benign, biogen, boning, bonnie, cineol, coigne, coking, congee, conine, coning, eloign, engine, enolic, globin, goblin, kennel, legion, nickel, nickle, oblige, oleine, online. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-g-i-k-l-n-n-o" | |
+2 letters: bottlenecking. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 67 69 6E 65 42 6C 6F 63 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01000010 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n g i n e   B l o c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0067 0069 006E 0065 0042 006C 006F 0063 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39807375807123678816977 |
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