Word Finder - engine

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A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.

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A tool; a utensil or implement.

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A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.

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A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.

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The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.

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A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.

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A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).

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a graphics engine

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Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.

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The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.

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Natural talent; genius.

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Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

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To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.

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Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

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To assault with an engine.

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To contrive; to put into action.

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To rack; to torture.

He waited to hear an engine start, ready to pounce.

She started the engine, avoiding Megan's gaze.

I felt the hot breath from the engine on my face, and the smoke and ashes almost choked us.

As Dean shut off the engine he turned to his companion.

Once he was seated and started the engine, she thanked him, but he didn't respond.

The engine turned over once and then headlights blinded her until he turned the car around.

He pulled the truck into the yard, shut off the engine and removed the keys from the ignition.

The shaft of P can be readily put in gear with a powerful engine for the purpose of hauling back the cable should it be found necessary to do so.

He started the engine and she clamped her arms around him, clinging to him as he spun the tires in a spray of pebbles and rocks.

The sound of a car door, and then an engine starting jarred him into realizing Elisabeth must have stayed in the woods all this time.

If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains.

A second engine, the West Point, also built at West Point Foundry for the South Carolina railroad, differed from the Best Friend in having a horizontal boiler with 6 or 8 tubes, though in other respects it was similar.

Helen was greatly interested in the boat, and insisted on being shown every inch of it from the engine to the flag on the flagstaff.

Sofia wrapped her arms around Dustin and squeezed her eyes closed as the engine roared to life.

Lydia turned off the engine and they sat there alone with no other cars in sight.

She stood beside Alex and listened to the truck door slam and the engine race when Josh started it.

They parked close to the building and, leaving the engine running, Dean made a dash for the office.

A few minutes later the truck engine started and he backed the Dodge 4x4 pickup out of the garage.

As she turned into the circular drive and shut off the engine, she let out a long sigh.

At its opening, on the 27th of September 1825, a train of thirtyfour vehicles, making a gross load of about go tons, was drawn by one engine driven by Stephenson, with a signalman on horseback in advance..

He chuckled and started the engine.

He stopped the ATV and shut off the engine.

Ample mention was made of alcohol as the fuel for the engine of lust.

Racks of this type usually become impracticable for gradients steeper than 1 in 4, partly because of the excessive weight of the engine required and partly because of the tendency of the cog-wheel to mount the rack.

An engine coupled to a batch of wagons runs one or more of them down one siding, leaves them there, then returns back with the remainder clear of the points where the sidings diverge, runs one or more others down another siding, and so on till they are all disposed of.

Combined Engine and Boiler Efficiency.

The brake's rotor was coupled to the engine's crankshaft.

In the future, something very much like the Amazon suggestion engine, but for all of life, will change that.

The pay per click (PPC) business is a way to advertise online to people who did a specific search in a search engine like Google or who are viewing content on a certain topic.

She followed him out the door and watched as he hopped into the truck and started the engine.

Quint dropped into the seat and started the engine.

Since his back was to the danger, he was unaware when the man gunned the engine and started to drive towards him.

Riding in a police car is the next best thing to a fire engine.

He pulled into the yard, put the truck in park and turned off the engine.

Keaton pulled the car off the road into a grassy parking area beside the creek and shut off the engine.

In steam cranes it is usual to work all the motions from one double cylinder engine.

The earliest arrangement of this kind was patented by John Blenkinsop, of the Middleton Colliery, near Leeds, in 1811, and an engine built on his plan by Mathew Murray, also of Leeds, began in 1812 to haul coals from Middleton to Leeds over a line 32 m.

On such lines the beginning of a rack section is provided with a piece of rack mounted on springs, so that the pinions of the engine engage smoothly with the teeth.

At terminal stations, especially at such as are used by short-distance trains which arrive at and start from the same platform, a third track is often laid between a pair of platform tracks, so that the engine of a train which has arrived at the platform can pass out and place itself at the other end of the train, which remains undisturbed.

The second arrangement enables any particular engine to enter or leave without disturbing the other; but on the other hand an accident to the turn-table may temporarily imprison the whole of them.

Machine shops are usually provided to enable minor repairs to be executed; the tendency, both in England and America, is to increase the amount of such repairing plant at engine sheds, thus lengthening the intervals between the visits of the engines to the main repairing shops of the railway.

When water is required, a scoop is lowered into them from below the engine, and if the speed is sufficient the water is forced up it into the tender-tanks.

The engine can be worked as a four-cylinder simple at the will of the driver.

The famous engine " Charles Dickens " was one of this class.

There was no majority in the Commons for the budget as such, since the Irish Nationalists only supported it as an engine for destroying the veto of the Lords and thus preparing the way for Irish Home Rule.

Before its use in the gas engine, the blast-furnace gas has to be freed carefully from the large quantity of fine ore dust which it carries in suspension.

The 6 cylinder engine on display is a later version (circa 1914) and is virtually two 3-cylinder engines sharing a common crankcase.

On returning we needed to change the engine oil and refill the stern tube greaser.

A full flow oil filter was installed, mounted in the engine compartment and an auxilliary oil cooler inside the rear grille.

The off-side was lined with large trees, the purr of the engine was the only sound, the twin headlights piercing the darkness.