Engine
(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.
Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.
A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.
To assault with an engine.
To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
(Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture.
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Engine Quotations
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
Barack Obama
Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
Henry Miller
Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley
People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.
David Letterman
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan
If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.
Dennis Weaver
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Ben Jonson
When America closes its doors, so does everybody else. We are the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.
Jenny Agutter
Engine Translations
engine in Afrikaans is masjien
engine in Danish is lokomotiv
engine in Dutch is locomotief
engine in Finnish is kone, veturi, moottori
engine in German is Motor, Triebwerk, Lokomotive, Maschine, Maschine
engine in Italian is locomotiva, ordigno, motore, gruppo motore
engine in Norwegian is maskin, motor
engine in Portuguese is motor, locomotiva
engine in Swedish is maskin, lokomotiv, motor
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