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English

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An automobile engine
A miniature railway engine

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishengyn, fromAnglo-Normanengine,Old Frenchengin(“skill, cleverness, war machine”), fromLatiningenium(“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (inLate Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related toingignō(“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Comparegin,ingenious,engineer.

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engine (pluralengines)

  1. A largeconstruction used inwarfare, such as abattering ram,catapult etc.[from 14th c.]
  2. (now archaic) Atool; autensil orimplement.[from 14th c.]
    • 1714,Bernard Mandeville,The Fable of the Bees:
      Flattery must be the most powerful Argument that cou'd be used to Human Creatures. Making use of this bewitchingEngine, they extoll'd the Excellency of our Nature above other Animals [...].
    • 1733, [Alexander Pope],An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: Printed forJ[ohn] Wilford, […],→OCLC,page15, lines248–251:
      What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mereEngines to the ruling Mind?
  3. A complexmechanicaldevice which convertsenergy into useful motion or physical effects.[from 16th c.]
  4. A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.[from 16th c.]
  6. The part of acar or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered byinternal combustion.[from 19th c.]
  7. A self-powered vehicle, especially alocomotive, used for moving cars along a track.[from 19th c.]
  9. (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).[from 20th c.]
    a graphicsengine
    a physicsengine
  10. (obsolete)Ingenuity;cunning,trickery,guile.[13th–17th c.]
  11. (obsolete) The result of cunning; somethingingenious, acontrivance; (in negative senses) aplot, ascheme.[13th–18th c.]
  12. (obsolete) Naturaltalent;genius.[14th–17th c.]
  13. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

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Hyponyms ofengine

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Translations

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mechanical device
locomotive—seelocomotive
influential group
software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task
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Verb

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engine (third-person singular simple presentengines,present participleengining,simple past and past participleengined)

  1. (transitive, dated) Toequip with an engine; said especially ofsteamvessels.
    Vessels are often built by one firm andengined by another.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) Toassault with an engine.
    • 1629,Thomas Adams,Plain-Dealing:
      toengine and batter our walls
  3. (transitive, obsolete) Tocontrive; to put into action.

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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From clipping ofEnglishengineering.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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engine

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)engineeringindustry;engineer
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, universityslang)engineering

Etymology 2

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FromEnglishengine.

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engine

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)engine(mechanical device; part of a vehicle; computing)
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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishengine.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil)IPA(key): /ˈẽ.d͡ʒĩ/,(hypercorrection)/ẽˈd͡ʒaj̃ni/[ẽˈd͡ʒaɪ̯̃ni]
  • (Brazil)IPA(key): /ˈẽ.d͡ʒĩ/,(hypercorrection)/ẽˈd͡ʒaj̃ni/[ẽˈd͡ʒaɪ̯̃ni]
    • (Southern Brazil)IPA(key): /ˈẽ.d͡ʒĩ/,(hypercorrection)/ẽˈd͡ʒaj̃ne/[ẽˈd͡ʒaɪ̯̃ne]

Noun

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engine f (pluralengines)

  1. (computing)engine(software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task)
    Synonym:motor
    • 2008 December, Felipe Micaroni Lalli, Felippe Franco Bueno, Guilherme Keese Zacharias, “Chrome” (chapter 4.2.8), inEvolução da programação web, Campinas: FAC,page33:
      O navegador Chrome beta para Windows foi lançado setembro de 2008 e é um projeto de código-aberto do Google. A maior parte do seu código-fonte tem origem no código do Firefox e suaengine JavaScript foi baseada naengine do Safari e se chama V8. Essaengine atualmente supera a velocidade do TraceMonkey do Firefox[…].
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2011 March 22, Nilton Kleina, “O que é engine ou motor gráfico?”, inTecMundo‎[2], São Paulo: NZN, archived fromthe original on2012-06-27:
      Não é fácil prever quais os futuros avanços em motores gráficos, mas a próxima grande leva deengines deve surgir apenas na geração que vem a seguir.
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2015 December, Rafael Nevez, “Yoshi’s Safari”,Prévia, inNintendo Blast, number72, Welcome to the jungle!,page14:
      Usando umaengine gráfica semelhante à de Super Mario Kart (SNES), o game apresentou visuais belos para a época.
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2019 March 12, Pedro Fernandes, “Vulnerabilidade no Github e Slack permitia instalação de malware”, inTugaTech‎[3], Portugal, archived fromthe original on2024-12-01:
      De acordo com o portal HackRead, o malware aproveitava uma falha naengine para redirecionar os utilizadores para falsas páginas das plataformas, com objetivo de obter os dados de acesso a contas das mesmas.
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
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