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engine 音標拼音: ['ɛndʒən] ['ɪndʒən] n. 引擎,發動機,機車,機械
vt. 安裝發動機于 引擎,發動機,機車,機械安裝發動機於 engine發動機 engine機 引擎 engine n 1: motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work 2: something used to achieve a purpose; " an engine of change" 3: a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self- propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks [ synonym: { locomotive}, { engine}, { locomotive engine}, { railway locomotive}] 4: an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.; " medieval engines of war" Engine \ En" gine\ ([ e^] n" j[ i^] n), n. [ F. engin skill, machine, engine, L. ingenium natural capacity, invention; in in the root of gignere to produce. See { Genius}, and cf. { Ingenious}, { Gin} a snare.] 1. Note: ( Pronounced, in this sense, [ e^] n* j[= e] n".) Natural capacity; ability; skill. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] A man hath sapiences three, Memory, engine, and intellect also. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; a machine; an agent. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] You see the ways the fisherman doth take To catch the fish; what engines doth he make? -- Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster] Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. " Terrible engines of death." -- Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Mach.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. [ 1913 Webster] { Engine driver}, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. { Engine lathe}. ( Mach.) See under { Lathe}. { Engine tool}, a machine tool. -- J. Whitworth. { Engine turning} ( Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The term engine is more commonly applied to massive machines, or to those giving power, or which produce some difficult result. Engines, as motors, are distinguished according to the source of power, as steam engine, air engine, electro- magnetic engine; or the purpose on account of which the power is applied, as fire engine, pumping engine, locomotive engine; or some peculiarity of construction or operation, as single- acting or double- acting engine, high- pressure or low- pressure engine, condensing engine, etc. [ 1913 Webster]
Engine \ En" gine\, v. t. 1. To assault with an engine. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] To engine and batter our walls. -- T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Pronounced, in this sense, ?????.) To rack; to torture. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 114 Moby Thesaurus words for " engine": AC motor, Corliss engine, Otto engine, Wankel engine, aeromotor, air engine, alembic, anvil, apparatus, appliance, arc- jet engine, axial- flow turbojet, beam engine, bearings, blowing engine, boiler, caldron, cam, cam engine, camshaft, capacitor motor, commutator motor, compensated motor, compound motor, condensing engine, connecting rod, convenience, crankcase, crankshaft, crucible, cylinder, cylinder head, diagonal engine, differential, direct- acting engine, donkey engine, drive, dynamo, dynamotor, electric motor, enginery, facility, fire engine, fixture, flywheel, gas jet, gas turbine engine, gearbox, gears, generator, hot- air engine, hydraulic engine, hydro- jet, impulse duct engine, inverted engine, ion engine, ion rocket, jet, lathe, locomotive, machine, machinery, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, melting pot, mortar, motive power, motor, outboard motor, pancake engine, piston, piston engine, piston rod, piston- valve engine, plasma engine, portable engine, power plant, power source, propeller- jet engine, propjet, pulse- jet engine, pumping engine, radial engine, ramjet, ramjet engine, reciprocating engine, refrigerating engine, resojet engine, retort, rocket engine, rocket motor, rotary engine, rotary- piston engine, rotor motor, servomotor, shunt motor, steam engine, supercharged engine, synchronous motor, test tube, three- phase motor, traction engine, transducer, transformer, transmission, turbine, turbojet, turbojet engine, turboprop, utility, variable- speed motor, vernier engine, vertical engine |
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