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Dictionary Results for Engine:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
engine
    n 1: motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
    2: something used to achieve a purpose; "an engine of change"
    3: a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that
       is used to draw trains along railway tracks [syn:
       locomotive, engine, locomotive engine, railway
       locomotive]
    4: an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a
       battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.; "medieval
       engines of war"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Engine \En"gine\ ([e^]n"j[i^]n), n. [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.]
   1.

   Note: (Pronounced, in this sense, [e^]n*j[=e]n".) Natural
         capacity; ability; skill. [Obs.]
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               A man hath sapiences three,
               Memory, engine, and intellect also. --Chaucer.
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   2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or
      contrivance; a machine; an agent. --Shak.
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            You see the ways the fisherman doth take
            To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
                                                  --Bunyan.
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            Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all
            these engines of lust.                --Shak.
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   3. Any instrument by which any effect is produced;
      especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.
      "Terrible engines of death." --Sir W. Raleigh.
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   4. (Mach.) A compound machine by which any physical power is
      applied to produce a given physical effect.
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   Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the
      engineer of a locomotive.

   Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe.

   Engine tool, a machine tool. --J. Whitworth.

   Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by
      means of a rose engine.
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   Note: The term engine is more commonly applied to massive
         machines, or to those giving power, or which produce
         some difficult result. Engines, as motors, are
         distinguished according to the source of power, as
         steam engine, air engine, electro-magnetic engine; or
         the purpose on account of which the power is applied,
         as fire engine, pumping engine, locomotive engine; or
         some peculiarity of construction or operation, as
         single-acting or double-acting engine, high-pressure or
         low-pressure engine, condensing engine, etc.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Engine \En"gine\, v. t.
   1. To assault with an engine. [Obs.]
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            To engine and batter our walls.       --T. Adams.
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   2. To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam
      vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and
      engined by another.
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   3. (Pronounced, in this sense, ?????.) To rack; to torture.
      [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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4. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
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.


5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
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", or
   "search engine".

   The hackish 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".

   [Jargon File]

   (1996-05-31)


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