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Engine logo #10101) Any mechanical contrivance 2) Battering ram or catapult 3) Car motor 4) Car part 5) Car part that purrs 6) Car puller 7) Daimler invention 8) Detroit pistons are here 9) Diesel 10) Diesel creation 11) Diesel invention 12) Diesel or Wankel invention 13) Donkey 14) Donkey or fire follower 15) Driver
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Engine logo #10101) Diesel 2) Dinkey 3) Motor 4) Shunter 5) Train
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engine logo #10444
  1. motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
  2. something used to achieve a purpose

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Engine logo #21823 A fire suppression vehicle that has a water pump and, typically, is designed to carry firehose and a limited supply of water.
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Engine logo #21485A vehicle outfitted for firefighting, specifically one outfitted to pump water. Many rural fire engines carry a reservoir of water to pump, and use drafting and water tenders to obtain further supply. Historically, an "enjin" was a machine that only pumped water.
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Engine logo #21850A engine is a machine that converts heat energy into mechanical energy.
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Engine logo #21832 Any ground vehicle providing specified levels of pumping, water, and hose capacity but with less than the specified level of personnel.
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engine logo #22054 industrial machine, hence
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Engine logo #21002• (n.) (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill. • (n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. • (v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture. • (v. t.) To assault with an engine. • (n.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied t...
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engine logo #21003(from the article `airplane`) ...1936). The first DC-2 was put in service on the Newark-Pittsburgh-Chicago run, after only 11 months` development time. In an era when American ... ...embayment. Several miles might be used at a time when a 1,000-foot airport runway was the norm. Long runways, either on land or on water, meant ... As t...
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engine logo #21003(from the article `military technology`) The invention of mechanical artillery was ascribed traditionally to the initiative of Dionysius the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse, in Sicily, who in 399 ... In general, the mechanical artillery of medieval times was inferior to that of the Classical world. The one exception was the trebuchet, an eng...
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engine logo #21003a machine that can convert any of various forms of energy into mechanical power or motion. See diesel engine; gasoline engine; internal-combustion ...
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engine logo #21160A device for converting stored energy into useful work. Most engines in use today are heat engines which convert heat into work, though the efficiency of this process, being governed according to the second law of thermodynamics is often very low. Heat engines are commonly classified according to th...
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Engine logo #20660A program that processes scripts or data and outputs the processed content.
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engine logo #209731. (Pronounced, in this sense,) Natural capacity; ability; skill. 'A man hath sapiences three, Memory, engine, and intellect also.' (Chaucer) ... 2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. 'You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?' (Bunyan) 'Their promises, enticements, o...
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engine logo #22223 industrial machine, hence
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Engine logo #20972En'gine noun [ French engin skill, machine, engine, Latin ingenium natural capacity, invention; in in + the root of gignere to produce. See Genius , and confer Ingenious , Gin a snare.] 1. (Pronounced, in this sense, .............) Natural cap...
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Engine logo #20972En'gine transitive verb 1. To assault with an engine. [ Obsolete] « To engine and batter our walls.» T. Adams. 2. To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another. 3.
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engine logo #22063a machine that converts chemical energy into mechanical energy.
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Engine logo #22048A software package that enables the creation of a game without having to create every line of code from scratch. A good game engine provides the ability to create environments, objects, and characters, as well as the ability to move the characters and detect interactions between characters and environments, objects, and other characters. The engine...
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Engine logo #20687A machine which produces power to do work, particularly one that converts heat into mechanical work.Diesel EngineAn internal-combustion engine in which the fuel is injected into the cylinder near the end of the compression stroke and is ignited by the heat of the compressed air in the cylinder.Four-Stroke EngineAn engine operating on a cycle which ...
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Engine logo #20784A loose term used for the aero-engine which provides the motive power for any flying machine or airship. Aero-engines are both liquid-cooled and air-cooled. The former have less drag, the latter need less maintenance because of the absence of 'plumbing.'
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engine logo #20974 noun motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
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engine logo #21221Click images to enlargeDevice for converting stored energy into useful work or movement. Most engines use a fuel as their energy store. The fuel is burnt to produce heat energy – hence the name `heat engine` – which is then converted into movement. Heat engines can be classified according to the fuel t...
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engine logo #21199a machine for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy or power to produce force and motion. · a railroad locomotive. · a fire engine. · any mechanical contrivance. · a machine or instrument used in warfare, as a battering ram, catapult, or piece of artillery. · an instrument of torture, esp. the rack.
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