Definitions for engine

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engine en·gine

Spelling: [en-juh n]

IPA: /ˈɛn dʒən/

Engine is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in engine (eeginn).

Definitions for engine

noun

1. a machine for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy or power to produce force and motion.
2. a railroad locomotive.
3. a fire engine.
4. any mechanical contrivance.
5. a machine or instrument used in warfare, as a battering ram, catapult, or piece of artillery.
6. Obsolete. an instrument of torture, especially the rack.

Origin of engine

1250-1300; Middle English engin Anglo-French, Old French Latin ingenium nature, innate quality, especially mental power, hence a clever invention, equivalent to in- in-

Examples for engine

“The fact the engine did not blow up does not mean it is not the cause of the accident,” he told the Daily Beast.

Fuel consumption is a prime factor in the production of engine power.

By this engine, whose springs I am continually oiling, I play them all off.

I did not want to start the engine until I had finished everything else.

And they always want to get a detailed look at the engines to see if engine failure was involved.

Texas has also started to become an engine of economic growth.

But engine technology has not been static in the past decade.

The Varsity Chiefs are awesome, and the engine for this devastating hardwood machine is point guard Buell Robinson.

But when K., growing uneasy, came out into the yard, the engine had started at last.

These blades are joined at the engine shaft, in a direct line.