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Engine

noun

Motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work.

Something used to achieve a purpose.

A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks. Synonyms: locomotive, locomotive engine, railway locomotive.

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

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"Engine" Quotes from Famous Books

... goes away, too. When he came home yesterday, he brought me a beautiful engine—it goes on wheels. ...

— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White

... especially in the evening, and which was full of children when the savage brute suddenly appeared among them. The children were in charge of several women-teachers, who, as well as the children, lost their heads at sight of the monster, which was snorting and puffing like a steam-engine. Teachers and children fled together, chased by the rhinoceros, which, singling out a little fugitive, tossed her like a feather into the air. Seeing one of the teachers, who had fallen in her fright, lying motionless on the ground, the rhinoceros chose her ...

— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka

... tobacco in the daytime for fear of offending the sun with the smoke, the white men's furnaces and engines belch forth black clouds of smoke day after day, keeping the people out of the sight of Tara Dios, and thus preventing him from guarding them. In the engine itself they see the Devil with a long tongue and ...

— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz

... man without a few failin's is like underclothes without trimmin', useful but uninterestin', and—and—then, John, he's one of them fussy little men who's always puffin' around and never doin' nothin' worth while, just like a little engine in a switchyard that snorts and puffs and makes a lot of noise pullin' a dump-wagon. And—then, sometimes, I wonder about his religion, he's so narrer, he's got lots of religion but not so much Christianity. He kind of thinks that Heaven's goin' to be made up of him and a few Presbyterians, ...

— Drusilla with a Million • Elizabeth Cooper

... twice as many hand-springs as any feller you ever saw, an' he can walk on his hands twice round the engine-house. I guess you couldn't find many circuses that could beat him, an' he's been practising in his barn all the chance he could ...

— Mr. Stubbs's Brother - A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler' • James Otis

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