engine
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1. engine - Noun
2. engine - Verb
Meaning
(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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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
The engine of the Panzer is a weapon just as the main-gun.
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.