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engine
English
Etymology
From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), from ingenitum, past participle of ingign? (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /??nd???n/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?end???n/, /?end???n/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?end???n/
- Hyphenation: en?gine
Noun
engine (plural engines)
- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc. [from 14th c.]
- (now archaic) A tool; a utensil or implement. [from 14th c.]
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects. [from 16th c.]
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force. [from 16th c.]
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion. [from 19th c.]
- A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track. [from 19th c.]
- (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word). [from 20th c.]
- (obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile. [13th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme. [13th-18th c.]
- (obsolete) Natural talent; genius. [14th-17th c.]
- Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
Synonyms
- motor
- locomotive
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Descendants
- ? Afrikaans: enjin
- ? Bashkir: ?????? (??????)
- ? Hindi: ???? (iñjan)
- ? Japanese: ????
- ? Malay: enjin
- Indonesian: enjin
- ? Scottish Gaelic: einnsean
- ? Swedish: injini
Verb
engine (third-person singular simple present engines, present participle engining, simple past and past participle engined)
- (transitive, dated) To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
- (transitive, obsolete) To assault with an engine.
- 1629, Thomas Adams, Plain-Dealing
- to engine and batter our walls
- 1629, Thomas Adams, Plain-Dealing
- (transitive, obsolete) To contrive; to put into action.
- (transitive, obsolete) To rack; to torture.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- Quoted in 1977, Virginia Brown (ed.), Mediaeval Studies (volume XXXIX), Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada
- In the year 1433 a merchant complained to Commons that the lord of the port city of Gildo in Brittany had imprisoned a servant of his ‘and engined him so that he was in point of death’ (Rot. pari. 4.475).
Further reading
- engine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- engine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- ginnee
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turboramjet
English
Etymology
turbo- +? ramjet
Noun
turboramjet (plural turboramjets)
- An aircraft engine that is a hybrid of a ramjet and turbofan.
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