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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
engine
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car door/engine/key etc
▪ She left the car engine running.
cranking...engine
▪ Try cranking the engine.
diesel engine
▪ a 1.9 litre diesel engine
engine compartment
▪ engine compartment
fire engine
four-stroke engine
get the car/engine etc started
▪ He couldn’t get his motorbike started.
inboard motor/engine
internal combustion engine
jet engine
keep the engine running
▪ You shouldn’t keep the engine running when the car is standing still.
search engine
steam engine/train/hammer etc (=an engine etc that works by steam power)
traffic/aircraft/engine etc noise
▪ It was peaceful there, with no traffic noise at all.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
diesel
▪ It's gone for a big six-cylinder, turbocharged 2. litre diesel engine under the bonnet.
▪ Although over the moon with it generally, I am disappointed with the lack of power in the naturally aspirated diesel engine.
▪ An example is Volvo Penta, a large producer of diesel engines for marine purposes.
▪ Because the diesel engine uses so much less fuel it releases substantially less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
▪ The argument also takes no account of the extra oil-change services that diesel engines require.
▪ There are diesel engines from Perkins which will fit - these are the 4.203 and 4.236 with suitable adaptors.
▪ The latter are modified diesel engines using a short squirt of conventional fuel to encourage injected gas to burn.
▪ The vehicles are modified Daimler Benz buses, powered by diesel engines or by overhead electric cables.
internal
▪ The computer chip was a huge breakthrough, greater than the lightbulb, telephone, or internal combustion engine.
▪ First and most radical, a new means of propulsion other than the internal combustion engine might be considered.
▪ Secondly, new fuels for the internal combustion engine which do not involve the depletion of vital and limited energy resources.
▪ A combination of mass production and the internal combustion engine was responsible for the Allied victory.
▪ Both have been accelerated since the war by the widespread application of the internal combustion engine.
▪ A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
▪ The internal combustion engine created a new mobility, for people and goods alike.
main
▪ The force of the main engines causes the top of the shuttle to tip by 1-2 metres.
▪ An independent company, that is, with its two main engines of growth showing definite signs of maturity.
▪ The main gasoline engine can be turned and its valve gear operates.
▪ Try the main search engines and study their instruction.
▪ There will be 19 main engines for the shuttle - each orbiter carries three, the rest are spares.
▪ The main engines and fuel pumps are removed and sent for refurbishment.
▪ Ball argues that the main engine in the shaping of higher education should be informed student demand, not manpower planning.
▪ This would give the stage an upward acceleration, settling the liquid before the pumps cut in at main engine ignition.
new
▪ Would such an engine fit in the new car's engine bay?
▪ Two days later, with the new engine in place, Tim and Chuck found a crack in one of the cylinders!
▪ Developing a new engine takes several years and costs $ 1. 5 billion or more.
▪ At least five new engines and one ladder truck are needed per year for the subsequent three years, they said.
▪ A new four-channel engine immobiliser system has been developed and added to the range.
▪ The car, with modified suspension and a new engine, will display Stansted Airport stickers this season.
powerful
▪ It has one of the most powerful engines of its type in the world.
▪ There were no mechanisms aboard the bell, but the ship herself had powerful engines.
▪ The driver is experienced, the car is powerful, the engine is tuned, but the clutch will not engage.
▪ Most other members of the family have more powerful engines.
▪ Its long black bonnet gleamed in the light of the passing street-lamps, and its powerful engine echoed through empty streets.
▪ Then, with a single powerful engine burn, the spacecraft can decelerate to a soft landing on the lunar surface.
▪ Certainly few would see the engineering industry as a powerful engine of future economic growth.
▪ The Huey, on the other hand, with its powerful, light-weight engine, had power to spare.
small
▪ This might not seem small in petrol engine terms but for a diesel it is quite dinky.
▪ It was placed in an eccentric, high-inclination orbit around Venus by the firing of a small rocket engine.
▪ A wheelbarrow mounted version can be switched between different small engines in a farm or industrial plant.
▪ Twowheel drivers with fabric upholstery and the smaller engine start at $ 28, 000.
▪ But instead of scooting, the rider stands on two side plates, while a small petrol engine drives the rear wheel.
▪ Available only with the smaller engine, 500 are being produced at a cost of £16,000 apiece.
▪ This powered a number of small engines with gleaming copper coils.
▪ The winding drum is powered by a small steam engine, operating through a worm-wheel and gear.
steam
▪ Iron stoves, buttons, ships, shirts, hairbrushes, paint, steam engines, books.
▪ The steam engine is an unthinkable contraption without the domesticating loop of the revolving governor.
▪ The immense surrogate slave power released by the steam engine ushered in the Industrial Revolution.
▪ Gritty steam engines, not teeny chips, hauled the world into the information age.
▪ Only then, typically, would it become part of a steam engine, gearbox, or pump.
▪ James Watt, who is credited with inventing the steam engine, did not.
▪ If one man invented a steam engine and another a railway, then the two could come together.
■ NOUN
car
▪ The car engine continued to run despite my having the ignition key in my pocket!
▪ He hears a car engine start.
▪ Either the car engine is on or it is not.
▪ And slowly, not two or three thousand revolutions per minute like your car engine, but maybe two hundred.
▪ There you will meet a tall, rugged stranger taking his car engine to bits with no hope of reassembling it.
▪ From dawn in the street, the voices of kids, car engines and cyclo bells still floated up.
▪ A few minutes later she heard the rich throb of a car engine in the drive below.
▪ As she lay there, barely conscious, she heard the sound of a car engine approaching.
combustion
▪ But even though it is still dark, I hear a combustion engine in the woods across the valley.
▪ First and most radical, a new means of propulsion other than the internal combustion engine might be considered.
▪ The computer chip was a huge breakthrough, greater than the lightbulb, telephone, or internal combustion engine.
▪ Secondly, new fuels for the internal combustion engine which do not involve the depletion of vital and limited energy resources.
▪ A combination of mass production and the internal combustion engine was responsible for the Allied victory.
▪ Both have been accelerated since the war by the widespread application of the internal combustion engine.
▪ A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
compartment
▪ Start off by cleaning down all the oily and greasy bits - the engine compartment, undercarriage and control surface hinges.
▪ For example, closed circuit television gives the helmsman a view of the engine compartment and of the aft deck of the boat.
▪ It detonated directly beneath U-494's engine compartment.
▪ He'd opened the smashed engine compartment, and was pointing to where the battery wasn't.
▪ Two large side panels, which are removed by undoing two knots, cover each side of the engine compartment.
▪ The engine compartment is completely wax protected and the whole car has three layers of paint rather than two.
failure
▪ The cause of engine failure was at length discovered.
▪ There were two aircraft casualties, a Zero crashed on take-off from the Hiryu and a Kate suffered engine failure.
▪ An investigation into the crash found no evidence of engine failure - the problem was loss of power.
▪ Pilots normally feather propellers for two reasons: because of engine failure or a racing propeller.
▪ This means a catastrophic engine failure could send a fragment into the wing and ignite the fuel vapour.
▪ Although the cause of the accident remained under investigation, eyewitnesses said the plane apparently suffered engine failure.
fire
▪ Somewhere, the bell of a fire engine clanged and men's voices called urgently.
▪ Look, there goes a fire engine.
▪ It all came to a head the day a fire engine couldn't get down the High Street for parked cars.
▪ One night she heard an ambulance approach the hospital and mistook it for a fire engine.
▪ He saw that one fire engine got through okay but the second a slight problem in two places.
▪ But it is all confusion.... Fire engines have been sent for, to put out the fire.
▪ There were police cars, fire engines, helicopters - oh yeah, and a naked woman.
▪ Daniel Ray, 25, dropped his lunch and jumped aboard a fire engine with the rest of his crew.
jet
▪ It has been used successfully, for example in the design of jet engines.
▪ In fact the improvement statistics in our jet engine shops were even more remarkable.
▪ A jet engine can take up to six seconds to spool up.
▪ Besides the black boxes, this category includes the jet engines, the pilot escape system, and so on.
▪ When a resultant is radial, the body can take off, like a rocket or a jet engine.
▪ Cobalt is important in the jet engines of aeroplanes because it makes turbine blades resist high temperatures.
noise
▪ He noticed the change of pitch in the engine noise and the slight tilt of the aircraft as it began its descent.
▪ I yelled over the engine noise of the old Dodge van.
▪ Richmann tensed as the approaching engine noise reached a peak.
▪ For perhaps half a minute we strained to identify the source of the engine noise.
▪ This was done and almost immediately we noticed increased engine noise.
▪ The engine noise rose, the chocks were pulled.
▪ The dark of the tunnel hammered the engine noise back at us, water drumming on the roof above my head.
▪ If possible, run the engine, checking for excessive exhaust smoke and engine noise.
petrol
▪ It uses the familiar 1. litre petrol engine, and comes in three or five-door versions.
▪ This might not seem small in petrol engine terms but for a diesel it is quite dinky.
▪ Power for the rotary cultivation unit was provided by an air cooled petrol engine mounted on the plough.
▪ Clios fitted with petrol engines do not require their first service until 6,000 miles.
▪ But instead of scooting, the rider stands on two side plates, while a small petrol engine drives the rear wheel.
▪ I own a 109 Safari and it is ex-military with the two and a quarter petrol engine.
room
▪ Why the door to the engine room was open and undamaged.
▪ Two merchant seamen in the engine room were killed immediately and a third died later on a lifeboat.
▪ Half way up the steps there's a standing wall, the remains of an engine room.
▪ There are sailors sleeping next to the engine room of ships and astronauts sleeping in weightlessness.
▪ Down below in the engine room it would be warm.
▪ He swore he could get me into the engine room.
▪ It was a kind of artistic engine room, except that it was silent.
▪ Local media reported that when firemen entered the engine room, they found bodies piled on top of each other.
running
▪ Keeping the engine running, I waited.
▪ A big saloon car was parked outside the other door with its engine running.
▪ Leaving the engine running, he went and leaned on the railings.
▪ He said it was accidentally gassed when he left his car engine running.
▪ The man who got out of it left the headlights full on and the engine running.
▪ Leaving the engine running, he then returned to the house to collect his executive briefcase and other relevant impedimenta.
▪ Outside, some one found the press coach, deserted and with the engine running.
▪ The animal had been in the garage while he was working on the car with the engine running.
search
▪ Earlier AltaVista, the search engine portal, reported losses of $ 307m on revenues of $ 98m in the second quarter.
▪ McKinley and Excite currently command two of the five most prominent spots for search engines on the Netscape browser home page.
▪ Angular momentum is the momentum associated with rotational motion. Search engines are by no means infallible.
▪ Ski Central is fast and easy to use, and its sophisticated search engine provides links to corresponding areas within the site.
▪ Each search engine has its own quirks to lean-otherwise you'il waste a lot of time weeding through poor results.
▪ In addition, the site provides access to hundreds of specialty search engines, organized by category.
▪ If you're going to add a Web search engine to your site, this is a lot easier.
trouble
▪ As the Sea King hovered in gale force winds, alarms warned of engine trouble.
▪ For the record their performance was marred by engine trouble, but simply taking part was more significant than the result.
▪ Outside Peterborough we ran into engine trouble and lost nearly two hours.
▪ The boat belonging to Arnold Spence, the fisherman for whom he worked, had developed engine trouble.
▪ Gehlbach, flying the R-2 had engine trouble in the Bendix, losing oil, and finishing second.
▪ He had a story of engine trouble to explain his own unauthorised landing, and we had to let him go.
▪ J.B. Holgate had suffered engine trouble and been forced to return.
■ VERB
build
▪ It was John Wilkinson who first enabled Watt to build engines with large accurately-bored cylinders.
▪ Bill and I built that engine.
▪ Lincoln built 6500 Liberty engines and employed 6000 people by the end of the war.
▪ Now they subcontract out about half of their functions, including the rather important job of building engines.
▪ Ironically, Cadillac also started building the same engines soon after Leland started Lincoln.
▪ Otto built a special racing engine in 1901 that weighed a thousand pounds and produced forty horsepower.
▪ At a drop zone there she met Steve, a tall, outgoing mechanical engineer who built jet engines.
▪ Toyota is to build diesel engines in Britain.
cut
▪ Grant cuts the engine right back to idle.
▪ Clayt braked hard, pulled off and cut the engine.
▪ He parked outside the tall façade of the house, cut the engine.
▪ It drew level, then cut back its engine, and came wallowing close alongside.
▪ The only problem which cured itself was a horn that tended to cut the engine during the early life of the car.
▪ The big patrol boat cut its engines as it drew level, and the grey-painted military hull sank down into the water.
▪ Those often cut their engines and drift out of control off Muckle Flugga, possibly to save fuel.
▪ They cut the engine to allow the animals to pass undisturbed.
drive
▪ The accountant strolled round to the driver's side, got in, revved up the engine and drove the champion home.
▪ Koju and the uniform revved the engine and drove belligerently in front of us.
▪ It is the engine that drives the economy.
▪ Then I started the engine and drove back to where I had seen the Pan-Am Norte sign.
▪ Gebrec shrugged, climbed aboard, started the engine and drove out of the yard.
▪ She started up the engine and drove swiftly away.
▪ But instead of scooting, the rider stands on two side plates, while a small petrol engine drives the rear wheel.
fit
▪ Included in the 707/300 series was the 707/400 series fitted with Rolls Royce engines.
▪ Clios fitted with petrol engines do not require their first service until 6,000 miles.
▪ The later breathing system could have been fitted or the engine fitted to a later vehicle.
▪ A three-bladed test prop is fitted to each engine for its assessment runs.
▪ Below: As technology improved there were various attempts to fit engines in horse drawn narrow boats.
▪ If Ducati does fit the new engine to the 996, it could simultaneously make other performance-boosting changes.
▪ Volkswagen has fitted bigger engines to compensate for the extra weight of the stronger and safer structure of the latest version.
▪ Is it possible to fit a diesel engine and an auto gearbox without being too expensive?
hear
▪ People living near the crash scene paid no attention when they heard the engine of the aircraft cut out in mid-air.
▪ He hears a car engine start.
▪ He was driving away from me grounds of Hauser's estate when he heard a different engine sound.
▪ But even though it is still dark, I hear a combustion engine in the woods across the valley.
▪ I hear them turn the engine on.
▪ He could hear engines gunning, hammers ringing, voices shouting back and forth.
▪ He said he heard a car engine racing behind him and turned round to see headlights.
▪ Piercing, piercing whistling rasping through teeth, could easily be heard over engine.
rev
▪ The accountant strolled round to the driver's side, got in, revved up the engine and drove the champion home.
▪ Aunt Belle revved the engine a few more times then shut it off.
▪ And the pirate, if that is what he was, revved up his engines and began to turn away.
▪ At noon each boat revs its engine, makes a half-circle and begins to feed the river its net.
▪ He waited until Miguel was back in his car and revved the engine.
▪ Arabella drove through the archway, revving the engine far too high, as she always did in the lower gears.
▪ Greene stood a few yards away, revving his engine.
run
▪ If possible, run the engine, checking for excessive exhaust smoke and engine noise.
▪ After running the engine for a few miles, the gauge is up to the red.
▪ Outside Peterborough we ran into engine trouble and lost nearly two hours.
start
▪ To avoid this and also to facilitate starting, engines are set to run about fifteen percent rich on the ground.
▪ He started up the engine, felt the boat rise and take to the water.
▪ She turned back, and only then remembered that some one had started the engines.
▪ He started the engine again and they climbed for several hundred yards without lights.
▪ Usually, all one gets is the chance to start up the engine for a minute or so on a viewing day.
▪ Then the driver started the engine, and off they went.
▪ Then I started the engine and drove back to where I had seen the Pan-Am Norte sign.
▪ Sherman started the engine up again.
switch
▪ He decided to wait, watching as the driver switched off the engine and slid from behind the wheel.
▪ Mr Phipps approached the car and switched the engine off.
▪ He parked close to where the land sloped downwards to a narrow pebble beach, and switched the engine off.
▪ The pilots were instructed simply to switch off their engines upon landing as taxi-ing the aircraft would be impossible.
▪ The outside air temperature was above minimum, but I switched on the engine anti-ice anyway, just to be sure.
▪ Jim switched his engine off and stretched his arms.
▪ A wheelbarrow mounted version can be switched between different small engines in a farm or industrial plant.
▪ Two miles out of town he pulled into a shallow ditch and switched the engine off.
turn
▪ He turned the engine of the lawnmower off and waved back.
▪ Clayt turned the engine over and felt for the accelerator with his toe and backed into the Harpswell Road.
▪ I hear them turn the engine on.
▪ He turned the engine over, the warm rumble of his Baby rejuvenating him.
▪ THIRTY-ONE Harry turned off the car engine and wound down the window.
▪ Janie turned off the engine and closed the doors.
▪ He turned on the engine with a swift, disgusted motion.
use
▪ What happens if I use unleaded in my engine?
▪ If you use unleaded in an engine not designed for it then premature failure of the exhaust valve seats will result.
▪ If I use unleaded will my engine be less powerful?
▪ You have obviously used an automatic engine.
▪ When swapping engines, use the clutch assembly which is compatible with the gearbox you are using.
▪ This was done by using a huge oil engine as a generator.
▪ Read me Search engines Use a search engine when you're looking for specific mention of something on a Web page.
▪ He could have pushed the throttle forwards and avoided the accident by using the engine.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
2.6/3.5 etc litre engine
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a diesel engine
▪ a jet engine
▪ Every time I try to start the engine, there's a strange knocking sound.
▪ For next year, the company will offer three cars with turbocharged diesel engines in the United States.
▪ She left the car in the drive with the engine still running.
▪ Some residents fear the crops would attract birds that might be sucked into jet engines.
▪ The car's engine tends to be noisy as it builds to highway speeds.
▪ The SVT is available only with a six-cylinder engine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A piston engine reacts immediately to power, just like a car.
▪ He turned on the engine with a swift, disgusted motion.
▪ I pressed the starter and the engine caught first time.
▪ I would love to test the same rig with a turbocharged diesel engine.
▪ Initially the engine refused to start for my grim, preoccupied father.
▪ Some of their multi-cylinder motor cycle engines have pistons little bigger than thimbles.
▪ The construction equipment giant has been a customer since the early Seventies, and has taken delivery of 150,000 engines to date.
▪ The inference engine is generic, and it handles the logistics of a consultation.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engine

Engine \En"gine\, v. t.

  1. To assault with an engine. [Obs.]

    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. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

Engine

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.]

    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. ``Terrible engines of death.''
    --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.

    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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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
engine

c.1300, "mechanical device," especially one used in war; "manner of construction," also "skill, craft, innate ability; deceitfulness, trickery," from Old French engin "skill, wit, cleverness," also "trick, deceit, stratagem; war machine" (12c.), from Latin ingenium "inborn qualities, talent" (see ingenious), in Late Latin "a war engine, battering ram" (Tertullian, Isidore of Seville). Sense of "device that converts energy to mechanical power" is 18c.; in 19c. especially of steam engines.

Wiktionary
engine

n. 1 (context obsolete English) ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile. (13th-17th c.) 2 (context obsolete English) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme. (13th-18th c.) 3 (context obsolete English) Natural talent; genius. (14th-17th c.) 4 Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. 5 A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc. (from 14th c.) 6 (context now archaic English) A tool; a utensil or implement. (from 14th c.) 7 A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects. (from 16th c.) 8 A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force. (from 16th c.) 9 The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion. (from 19th c.) 10 A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track. (from 19th c.) 11 (context computing English) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word). (from 20th c.) vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To assault with an engine. 2 (context dated English) To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels. 3 (context obsolete English) To rack; to torture.

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WordNet
engine

  1. n. 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, locomotive engine, railway locomotive]

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Wikipedia
Engine
Engine (disambiguation)

An engine is a device that converts potential energy into mechanical work.

Engine may also refer to:

Engine (TV series)

is a Japanese television drama series from Fuji Television, first shown in Japan from 18 April to 27 June 2005.

Engine (American Music Club album)

Engine is the second album by American Music Club. It was jointly released by Frontier and Grifter in the US and by Zippo in the UK and Europe in 1987. The 1998 Warner Bros. Records reissue added three additional tracks from the same period. The artwork for the Zippo UK release features an incorrect track listing, putting the songs in the wrong order.

Engine (Loudness album)

Engine is the fourteenth studio album by Japanese band Loudness. It was released in 1999. All music is by Akira Takasaki and all lyrics by Masaki Yamada, except "Ace in the Hole" with music by Hirotsugu Homma and lyrics by Kayla Ritt.

Engine (UK band)

Engine were a British boogie rock band formed in July 1979 in Birkenhead, near Liverpool, England.

They had a three-piece line-up throughout their career, featuring Pete Wade ('Wad') on vocals and guitar, Roy Hughes ('Yozzer') on bass guitar and backing vocals and Dave Cornes ('Ape') on drums.

Engine (US band)

Engine was an American progressive metal band. Engine's lead singer is Ray Alder of Fates Warning.

In addition to Alder, the outfit also included the former Agent Steel member Bernie Versailles on guitar, Joey Vera ( Armored Saint) on bass guitar plus drummer Pete Parada ( Face to Face). Their debut self-titled album was released in September 1999. Superholic was the follow-up, which was issued in May 2002.

Engine (computer science)

An engine is a continuation-based construct that provides timed preemption. Engines which can contain other engines are sometimes called Nesters and engines which do not have this ability are then called flat engines or "solo engines". To implement timed preemption there needs to be a clock. This clock can measure real time or simulated time. Simulated time can be implemented in a language like Scheme, by making each function start with decrementing the clock.

(define-syntax timed-lambda ((_ formals exp1 exp2 ...) (lambda formals (decrement-timer) exp1 exp2 ...))))

Category:Control flow Category:Continuations

Engine (Jinn album)

is the second mini studio album by the rock band Jinn. It was released on July 14, 2010.

Engine (organization)

Engine is a non-profit group advocating for public policies that encourage the growth of technology startups in San Francisco, California. Engine is composed of a 501(c)(3) organization called Engine Research Foundation and a 501(c)(4) called Engine Advocacy. Engine Advocacy and Engine Foundation are the two branches of a non-profit organization that conducts economic research and policy analysis research and provides support and advice to technology startups. Engine Advocacy was an instrumental partner in the effort to defeat PIPA and SOPA back in 2012. The organization researches and advocates around the issues of open Internet, intellectual property reform, privacy laws, Internet and spectrum access and immigration reform. Google, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Mozilla, Yelp and the Startup Genome support the organization.

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Usage examples of "engine".

Moments later the subdued whistle of the engines faded and Dane could hear the structure of the ship creak around them as acceleration ceased.

Maybe somebody posted it on their intranet just as a convenience to their own employees, never realizing that it made the information available to everyone on the Internet who has access to a good search engine such as Google -including the just-plain-curious, the wannabe cop, the hacker, and the organized crime boss.

Darryl Adin and his people had fine warp-capacity vessels, the epitome of private spacecraft technology, but their engines could not produce enough power to break free of the gravitational surges that barely affected a Galaxy-class starship.

Sometimes they smashed the engine, sometimes they smashed the aeronaut, usually they smashed both.

The turbines aft of maneuvering, so loud before, like jet engines screaming mere feet away, spun down, their steam gone.

One of the turbine generators and one of the main engines aft was shut down to minimize radiated noise.

Murphy could feel the vibrations from his feet as the main engines aft began to accelerate them through the water of the shallow bay, moving them away from the sonobuoys.

Those forward turbines are the SSTGs and the aft ones are the main engines.

DC motor aft in the engine room capable of turning the shaft to achieve 3 knots using battery power alone.

There is a small thing wrong with the engine, so I am to go along to Agios Georgios for what I need, then return in the evening to meet Mark and Colin.

The train is set in motion on December 19, when the world weather engine is traditionally in almanac respite.

Airplanes are designed to be able to fly with one engine inoperative, but the pilots decided to reduce altitude and were beginning to redirect the airplane to a closer airport when the second engine flamed out.

These aircraft are designed to fly just fine at a lower cruising altitude with just one engine, but no one wants to take a chance that the other engine might fail, too.

All efforts to put the engine and car back on the track were fruitless, and a messenger was sent back to Ancon to telegraph to Lima for an extra engine to assist in righting the little train.

The ship, engines extinguished, drifted in a far aphelion, while in the embryonator all the lights went on and the heads of the medicoms hung over the containers, ready to begin.