What does ENGINE mean?
Definitions for ENGINE
ˈɛn dʒənENGINE
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word ENGINE.
Princeton's WordNet
engine(noun)
motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
engine(noun)
something used to achieve a purpose
"an engine of change"
locomotive, engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive(noun)
a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
engine(noun)
an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
"medieval engines of war"
Wiktionary
engine(Noun)
Cunning, trickery.
Etymology: From engin, from engin, from ingenium, from ingenitum, past participle of ingigno; see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.
engine(Noun)
The result of cunning; a plot, a scheme.
Etymology: From engin, from engin, from ingenium, from ingenitum, past participle of ingigno; see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.
engine(Noun)
A device to convert energy into useful mechanical motion, especially heat energy
Etymology: From engin, from engin, from ingenium, from ingenitum, past participle of ingigno; see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.
engine(Noun)
A powered locomotive used for pulling cars on railways.
Etymology: From engin, from engin, from ingenium, from ingenitum, past participle of ingigno; see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.
engine(Noun)
A person or group of people which influence a larger group.
Etymology: From engin, from engin, from ingenium, from ingenitum, past participle of ingigno; see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.
engine(Noun)
the brain or heart.
Etymology: From engin, from engin, from ingenium, from ingenitum, past participle of ingigno; see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.
engine(Noun)
A software system, not a complete program, responsible for a technical task (as in layout engine, physics engine).
Etymology: From engin, from engin, from ingenium, from ingenitum, past participle of ingigno; see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.
engine(Verb)
To assault with an engine.
To engine and batter our walls. uE00027131uE001 T. Adams.
Etymology: From engin, from engin, from ingenium, from ingenitum, past participle of ingigno; see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.
engine(Verb)
To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
Etymology: From engin, from engin, from ingenium, from ingenitum, past participle of ingigno; see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.
Webster Dictionary
Engine(noun)
(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill
Etymology: [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.]
Engine(noun)
anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent
Etymology: [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.]
Engine(noun)
any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture
Etymology: [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.]
Engine(noun)
a compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect
Etymology: [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.]
Engine(verb)
to assault with an engine
Etymology: [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.]
Engine(verb)
to equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another
Etymology: [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.]
Engine(verb)
(Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture
Etymology: [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.]
Freebase
Engine
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert energy into useful mechanical motion. Heat engines, including internal combustion engines and external combustion engines burn a fuel to create heat, which then creates motion. Electric motors convert electrical energy into mechanical motion, pneumatic motors use compressed air and others—such as clockwork motors in wind-up toys—use elastic energy. In biological systems, molecular motors, like myosins in muscles, use chemical energy to create motion.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Engine
en′jin, n. a complex and powerful machine, esp. a prime mover: a military machine: anything used to effect a purpose: a device: contrivance: (obs.) ability, genius.—v.t. to contrive: to put into action.—ns. En′gine-driv′er, one who manages an engine, esp. who drives a locomotive; Engineer′, an engine maker or manager: one who directs works and engines: a soldier belonging to the division of the army called Engineers, consisting of men trained to engineering work.—v.i. to act as an engineer.—v.t. to arrange, contrive.—ns. Engineer′ing, the art or profession of an engineer; En′gine-man, one who drives an engine; En′gine-room, the room in a vessel in which the engines are placed; En′ginery, the art or business of managing engines: engines collectively: machinery; En′gine-turn′ing, a kind of ornament made by a rose-engine, as on the backs of watches, &c.—Civil engineer (see Civil). [O. Fr. engin—L. ingenium, skill. See Ingenious.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
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.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.
Editors Contribution
engine
A type of machine created and designed in various colors, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes and styles.
The engine worked so effectively.
Submitted by MaryC on January 20, 2020
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'ENGINE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2141
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'ENGINE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1710
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'ENGINE' in Nouns Frequency: #680
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ENGINE in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ENGINE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of ENGINE in a Sentence
There are no moving parts in the flow path, so that means there are no compressor blades to suck in the air, so we need something to get us up to above Mach 4 in order to get the compression into the engine.
It's a full-service solution. It's not just a meta search engine that is discovery based.
Red Bull principal Christian Horner:
I think it's about who controls Formula One, at the moment you've got two very powerful engine manufacturers that are working closely together and then you've got the promoter and governing body and the engine is the catalyst of that.
I believe that discussions of other shareholding or change of shareholding... they’re not applicable at the moment, the focus is purely on finding a solution to our engine predicament, that we can move forward for next year and the future.
And then I just start hearing' boom, boom, boom.' And I look out of the window and there's balls of fires just shooting out of the engine.
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Translations for ENGINE
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- موتور, محرك, قاطرةArabic
- двигател, локомотив, моторBulgarian
- ইঞ্জিনBengali
- motorCatalan, Valencian
- lokomotiva, motorCzech
- peiriant, ermigWelsh
- motorDanish
- Lok, Motor, Triebwerk, Getriebe, Antrieb, LokomotiveGerman
- μηχανή, κινητήραςGreek
- motoroEsperanto
- motor, locomotoraSpanish
- mootor, vedurEstonian
- موتورPersian
- moottori, veturiFinnish
- moteur, locomotiveFrench
- einnseanScottish Gaelic
- motor, locomotoraGalician
- motorHungarian
- շարժիչArmenian
- locomotiva, motorInterlingua
- mesin, motorIndonesian
- mashinoIdo
- motore, motrice, locomotivaItalian
- 機械, 機関車, モーター, 発動機, 汽車, エンジン, 原動機, 機関Japanese
- მატორი, ძრავაGeorgian
- 기관, 機關Korean
- jynnCornish
- variklis, motorasLithuanian
- motors, dzinējsLatvian
- pūkaha, tima, initia, mīhiniMāori
- локомотива, мотор, двигателMacedonian
- enjinMalay
- motorNorwegian
- locomotief, motor, aandrijvingDutch
- motorNorwegian Nynorsk
- atsiitsʼiinNavajo, Navaho
- motor, lokomotywa, silnikPolish
- motor, locomotivaPortuguese
- motor, locomotivăRomanian
- двигатель, мотор, локомотивRussian
- мотор, motorSerbo-Croatian
- motor, lokomotivaSlovene
- motor, lok, lokomotivSwedish
- เครื่องยนต์Thai
- likhisogTagalog
- motor, lokomotifTurkish
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