Definition of Engine

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Engine

(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.

A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.

To assault with an engine.

To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

(Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture.

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Engine Quotations

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.
David Letterman

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
Henry Miller

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
Jo Brand

The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.
Heinz Guderian

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
Frank Carson

The great growling engine of change - technology.
Alvin Toffler

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
Don Van Vliet

Engine Translations

engine in Afrikaans is masjien
engine in Danish is lokomotiv
engine in Dutch is locomotief
engine in Finnish is kone, veturi, moottori
engine in German is Motor, Triebwerk, Lokomotive, Maschine, Maschine
engine in Italian is locomotiva, ordigno, motore, gruppo motore
engine in Norwegian is maskin, motor
engine in Portuguese is motor, locomotiva
engine in Swedish is maskin, lokomotiv, motor

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