Crossword clues for engine
engine
- Diesel, e.g
- Diesel invention
- Detroit pistons are here
- Web search aid
- Wankel's wonder
- Wankel's creation
- V-8, for one
- Turbine, e.g
- Revved thing
- It's exhausted
- It's always exhausted?
- It's a driving force
- It may have a lot of pull
- Firehouse vehicle
- Firefighter's vehicle
- Detroit pistons' home
- Commuter train's lack, often
- Car motor
- Word with steam or fire
- Word after search or steam
- Word after "fire" or "steam"
- When it purrs, it's perfect
- Wankel, e.g
- V-8, for example
- Thomas, e.g
- Something you want to turn over
- Searcher's tool
- Search software
- Search __: online tool
- Search __: online aid
- Place for Detroit pistons?
- Place for a piston
- Pistons' home
- Neutral Milk Hotel car part song?
- Motive power source
- Momentum source
- Mini machine?
- Metal might sound like a jet one
- Jet, for one
- Its size may be measured in liters
- It's under a car's hood
- It's tuned
- It's often under a hood
- It may be gas-burning or hybrid
- It could stall
- Internal combustion site
- Front part of a train, usually
- Fire or jet
- Diesel or Wankel invention
- Diesel or Wankel
- Crankshaft's place
- Casey Jones' spot
- Casey Jones' place
- Car puller
- Automotive necessity
- Auto motor
- Any mechanical contrivance
- "The Little ___ That Could"
- Various genres, each in online program
- Exceptionally, change Ernie’s software
- Selecting application from range Chinese assembled
- Information retrieval software
- Head of a train
- Pistons' place
- Powering force
- Gas guzzler
- Object of a tuneup
- Dragster's pride
- It might be found in a stall
- Train head
- It typically has lots of horses
- Caboose's opposite
- Driver
- It turns over before it runs
- Power source
- You might give this a gun
- It goes in front of a coal tender
- Metal casting housing automotive cylinders
- Thing worked on in a garage
- It may purr or roar
- It's often described by horses
- V-8, e.g.
- It must turn over to start
- Motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
- Something used to achieve a purpose
- Purrer
- Machine that may purr
- Driving force?
- Propulsion device
- Locomotive, e.g
- Donkey, e.g.
- Daimler invention
- Auto's heart
- Energy converter
- Battering ram or catapult
- Motor
- Prime mover
- Plane part
- Donkey or fire follower
- Rotary ___
- Turbine, e.g.
- Heart of a car
- Motor spirit in European North-east
- Motor found on fire, perhaps
- Machine gun originally seen in middle of Red Square
- English soldier's news about European war machine
- English item of ordnance, excluding first machine
- English fiancée regularly crashed motor
- England's a member of European power source
- Car part that purrs
- Power unit
- Car starter
- "I think I can, I think I can" speaker
- Train puller
- Glider's lack
- Railway locomotive
- Web search tool
- Wankel or diesel
- V-8, e.g
- Tuneup target
- Search ___
- Pistons' home?
- It purrs when it's cared for
- Donkey, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engine \En"gine\, v. t.
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To assault with an engine. [Obs.]
To engine and batter our walls.
--T. Adams. 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. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
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.]
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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.
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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. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. ``Terrible engines of death.''
--Sir W. Raleigh.-
(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
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.
WordNet
n. motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
something used to achieve a purpose; "an engine of change"
a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks [syn: locomotive, locomotive engine, railway locomotive]
Wikipedia
An engine is a device that converts potential energy into mechanical work.
Engine may also refer to:
is a Japanese television drama series from Fuji Television, first shown in Japan from 18 April to 27 June 2005.
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 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 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 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.
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
is the second mini studio album by the rock band Jinn. It was released on July 14, 2010.
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.
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.