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- engine ['εnʤɪn]
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1.
n
any machine designed to convert energy, esp heat energy, into mechanical work
- a steam engine
- a petrol engine
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2.
n
a railway locomotive
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3.
n
(as modifier)
- the engine cab
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4.
n
[military]
any of various pieces of equipment formerly used in warfare, such as a battering ram or gun
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5.
n
[obsolete]
any instrument or device
- engines of torture
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6.
n
[Etymology]
C13: from Old French engin, from Latin ingenium nature, talent, ingenious contrivance, from
in- 2 + -genium, related to gignere to beget, produce
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1.
n
any machine designed to convert energy, esp heat energy, into mechanical work
Examples
- The engine barked.
- 发动机发出轰隆隆的响声。 → bark
- cut the engine
- 关掉引擎 → cut
- A gasoline engine drives the motorboat.
- 汽油引擎推动汽船。 → drive
- to keep an engine running
- 使发动机不断转动 → keep
- a marine engine
- 轮机 → marine
- a water-cooled engine
- 水冷式引擎 → water-cooled
- an air-cooled engine
- 空气冷却发动机 → air-cooled
- The principle of a gasoline engine is internal combustion.
- 汽油机的工作原理是内燃。
- to warm an engine
- 使引擎预热
- to tear an engine
- 拆开一台发动机
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