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- \ˈen-jən\
- /ˈendʒɪn/
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- \ˈen-jən\
Definitions of engine word
- noun engine A machine with moving parts that converts power into motion. 1
- noun engine motor that drives sth 1
- noun engine fire truck 1
- noun engine train: locomotive 1
- noun engine stimulus 1
- noun Definition of engine in Technology (jargon) 1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but can't be used without some kind of front end. Today we have, especially, "print engine": the guts of a laser printer. 2. An analogous piece of software; notionally, one that does a lot of noisy crunching, such as a "database engine", or "search engine". The hackish senses of "engine" are actually close to its original, pre-Industrial-Revolution sense of a skill, clever device, or instrument (the word is cognate to "ingenuity"). This sense had not been completely eclipsed by the modern connotation of power-transducing machinery in Charles Babbage's time, which explains why he named the stored-program computer that he designed in 1844 the "Analytical Engine". 1
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engine popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
engine usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for engine
noun engine
- locomotive — a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars.
- steam engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
- tank engine — locomotive train
- train — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
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