engine — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.

   أمثلة

   Their warlike Engins and munition Exceed the forces of their martial men.

2. A tool; a utensil or implement.

   الاستعمال

   • عتيق

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   Flattery must be the most powerful Argument that cou'd be used to Human Creatures. Making use of this bewitching Engine, they extoll'd the Excellency of our Nature above other Animals [...].

   What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?

3. A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.

   مرادفات

   drivemotor

4. A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   In France, the parliament soon became a mere engine in the hands of a few high-born and ambitious men, who had nothing in common with its interests, which were those of the people.

5. The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.

6. A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.

7. A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track. A locomotive.

   الاستعمال

   • usually

8. A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).

   أمثلة

   a graphics engine

   a physics engine

9. Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور

10. The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.

    الاستعمال

    • مهجور

    أمثلة

    Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Againſt his praiſe to ſtirre vp enmitye [...].

11. Natural talent; genius.

    الاستعمال

    • مهجور

12. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

    أمثلة

    [...] their promiſes, entiſements, oathes, tokens, and all theſe engines of luſt [...].

    You ſee the ways the Fiſher-man doth take / To catch the Fiſh; what Engins doth he make?

فعل

1. To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.

   الاستعمال

   • قديم الطابع
   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

2. To assault with an engine.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   to engine and batter our walls

3. To contrive; to put into action.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • متعدٍ

اسم

1. motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   motor

2. something used to achieve a purpose

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   causal agentcausecausal agency

   أمثلة

   an engine of change

3. a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks

   مرادفات

   locomotivelocomotive enginerailway locomotive

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   self-propelled vehicle

4. an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   instrument

   أمثلة

   medieval engines of war