engine
Significado (inglés)
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- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- A tool; a utensil or implement.
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.
- A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- (obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
- (obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
- (obsolete) Natural talent; genius.
- Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
Sinónimos
locomotive engine
mechanical device
railway locomotive
weapon system
put-put
railway engine
thermal machine
marine machinery
motorshipengine
gadget
gas-engine
Frecuencia
Guionizado como
en‧gine
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/
Etimoloxía (inglés)
From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related to ingignō (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious, engineer.
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