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n. (plural of engine room English)
Usage examples of "engine rooms".
He was a submarine engineer, and when people bring grenades into their engine rooms, submarine engineers lose the power of rational thought.
It was impossible to refit the engine rooms or change the layout of the cabs, but they covered the front windows with thick black curtains.
Darkened engine rooms would thunder with the pulse of great dilithium hearts, and the blood and muscle organs in the chests of her eager crew would leap up in answer, until what finally ignited her sleeping warp core was that combined symphony of animal and mineral, creature and machine.
He had been over engine rooms of their own steamships since a boy and engines had never interested him, only their efficiency and cost and amount of coal they consumed.
Next day he toured the Prince of Wales from flying bridge to engine rooms, noting contrasts with American ships, above all the slovenly, overburdened, tense crew, so different from the scrubbed happy-go-lucky Augusta sailors.
The captain came and told us our engine rooms were taking water and that the dynamos might not last much longer.
Then a team of Mastersmiths was sent to all three ships, starting with the Yokohama, so that all four could familiarize themselves with the cargo bays and engine rooms.
The lower section of the interior was sealed off to form engine rooms, crew quarters, and cargo holds, while the interior of the hull was divided into cells for the gasbags, which were contained by a network of steel wire.