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engine

1. [at] motor [Umumy]

2. [at] makine [Umumy]

3. [at] lokomotif [Umumy]

4. [at] itfaiye arabası [Umumy]

5. [at] alet edevat [Umumy]

Webster's English Dictionary

engine

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. Natural capacity; ability; skill. ()

A man hath sapiences three, Memory, engine, and intellect also. (Chaucer.)

2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; a machine; an agent. (Shak.)

You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make? (Bunyan.)

Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. (Shak.)

3. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. (Sir W. Raleigh.)

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

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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v. t. 1. To assault with an engine. ()

To engine and batter our walls. (T. Adams.)

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

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