Meaning of engine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. moving
2. A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
3. motor (mechanical device)
4. A tool; a utensil or implement.
   archaic
5. To equip with an engine or engines.
6. A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
7. A machine that turns energy into mechanical force or motion, especially one that gets its energy from a source of heat, such as the burning of a fuel. See more at internal-combustion engine, jet engine, steam engine.
8. driving force, driver, mover
9. A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
10. A device converting one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy.
11. powerhouse
12. The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
13. a person who drives a railway engine. masjienloods سائِق قِطار машинист maquinista strojvůdce der Lokomotivführer lokomotivfører; lokofører μηχανοδηγόςmaquinista vedurijuht لوکوموتیو ران veturinkuljettaja mécanicien/-ienne נַהָג קַטָר इंजन चालक vlakovođa, strojovođa mozdonyvezető masinis lestarstjóri; eimreiðarstjóri macchinista 機関士 기관사 mašinistas mašīnists; lokomotīves vadītājs pemandu machinistlokomotivførermaszynista دریور maquinista me­canic de locomotivă машинист strojvodca strojevodja m...
14. A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
15. to arrange by skill or by cunning means. He engineered my promotion. bewerk, beraam يُدَبِّر بِمَهارَه ودَهاء уреждам maquinar (za)řídit bewerkstelligen arrangere; iscenesætte μηχανεύομαι, ραδιουργώ crear; tramar, maquinar nutikalt korraldama طرح ریزی کردن järjestellä être l'artisan de לְתַכנֵן इंजीनियर isplanirati kitervel mengatur koma fram með lagni/kænsku architettare, dirigere, macchinare 工作する 교묘하게 처리하다 suorganizuoti, suveikti saorganizēt; sarīkot uruskan bewerkstelligenarrangere, legge ...
16. the art or profession of an engineer. He is studying engineering at university. ingenieurswese هَنْدَسَه инженерство engenharia inženýrství das Ingenieurwesen ingeniørarbejde; teknologi μηχανική, μηχανολογίαingeniería insenerikunst, tehnika مهندسی insinööritaito ingénierieהנדסה कल बनाने की विद्या inženjerstvo, tehnika mérnöki munka, mérnöki tudomány(ok) rekayasa verkfræði ingegneria 工学 공학 technika, inžinerija inženierzinātnes kejuruteraan technische wetenschappen ingeniørfag/-yrke mechanika, ...
17. A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
18. A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion.
19. Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
    obsolete
20. A mechanical appliance, instrument, or tool: engines of war.
21. The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
    obsolete
22. A locomotive.
23. Natural talent; genius.
    obsolete
24. A fire engine.
25. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

Equivalents

Examples

“Their warlike Engins and munition Exceed the forces of their martial men.”

“Flattery must be the most powerful Argument that cou'd be used to Human Creatures. Making use of this bewitching Engine, they extoll'd the Excellency of our Nature above other Animals [...].”

“What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?”

“In France, the parliament soon became a mere engine in the hands of a few high-born and ambitious men, who had nothing in common with its interests, which were those of the people.”

“a graphics engine”

“a physics engine”

“Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Againſt his praiſe to ſtirre vp enmitye [...].”

“[...] their promiſes, entiſements, oathes, tokens, and all theſe engines of luſt [...].”

“You ſee the ways the Fiſher-man doth take / To catch the Fiſh; what Engins doth he make?”

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