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US
/ˈɛndʒən, ˈɪndʒən/
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[ UK /ˈɛndʒɪn/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛndʒɪn/ ]
NOUN
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something used to achieve a purpose
an engine of change - motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
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an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
medieval engines of war
How To Use engine In A Sentence
- A light tubular chassis with an inline 8 cylinder engine was made by cobbling a couple of sports engines together.
- I'll get all the engine cowls off, get all the dust out of it, and a lot of areas have to be repolished.
- After our engineless sail into the anchorage at Santa Domingo we spent a couple of days trying to resuscitate the iron genny. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
- One Mercedes engineer estimated that, worldwide, up to 50,000 vehicles may have to be repaired, which is a blow for a company which prides itself on reliability and quality. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- It was part of Rolls-Royce, one of the world's largest manufacturers of jet engines, which grew out of the original car-making company founded by Henry Rolls.
- Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
- No battery could store enough energy to turn over a car's engine.
- combustion products are exhausted in the engine
- Could the answer for dental plaque be a transplant, not of teeth but of genetically engineered bacteria?