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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. Related Definitions:
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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 Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America. Gray Davis I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in. Eliot Spitzer The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science. Edward Sapir |
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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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