Synonyms for Engine
ˈɛn dʒənen·gine

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1. enginenoun

   Synonyms:
   motor

2. enginenoun

   To assault with an engine.

   To engine and batter our walls. T. Adams.

   Synonyms:
   motor

3. enginenoun

   The result of cunning; a plot, a scheme.

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

   Synonyms:
   motor

4. enginenoun

   A device to convert energy into useful mechanical motion, especially heat energy

   Synonyms:
   motor

5. enginenoun

   A powered locomotive used for pulling cars on railways.

   Synonyms:
   motor

6. enginenoun

   A person or group of people which influence a larger group.

   Synonyms:
   motor

7. enginenoun

   the brain or heart.

   Synonyms:
   motor

8. enginenoun

   A software system, not a complete program, responsible for a technical task (as in layout engine, physics engine).

   Synonyms:
   motor

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. enginenoun

   motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work

   Synonyms:
   railway locomotive, locomotive, locomotive engine

2. enginenoun

   something used to achieve a purpose

   "an engine of change"

   Synonyms:
   railway locomotive, locomotive, locomotive engine

3. locomotive, engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotivenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   engine, railway locomotive, locomotive, locomotive engine

4. enginenoun

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

   "medieval engines of war"

   Synonyms:
   railway locomotive, locomotive, locomotive engine

Matched Categories

1. • Causal Agent
   • Instrument
   • Motor

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. enginenoun

   Synonyms:
   machine

2. enginenoun

   Synonyms:
   implement, instrument, weapon, agent, means

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1. enginenoun

   Synonyms:
   locomotive, mogul, traction engine

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1. List of paraphrases for "engine":

   motor, engines, motors, driver, locomotive, moteur, machines, tractive, machinery, powerhouse

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1. Thomas Jefferson:

   The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.

2. Chris Bogdan:

   There's spillover things that happen if you have two engines that are common, there's another source of investment to improve engine manufacturing now.

3. Fred Hu:

   Make no mistake, innovation will remain ever more important engine of economic growth.

4. Ocean Tankers:

   We have been training the operators in proper bunker management and segregation, preventive maintenance, as well as to ensure that heating temperature is in accordance with engine maker's specifications, we do have concerns which is why we're now in a trial period where our own fleet is starting to burn LSFO.

5. Alex Garland:

   That is effectively dramatized and represented within the film because Ava’s sentience comes partly out of the inputs that we’ve put into search engines, there was a loose idea, and this probably does n’t stand up to any scrutiny at all, but for what it’s worth, that if you were to look at everybody’s search engine inputs you ’d get a kind of map and the map would not just tell you what they were thinking about but also how they were thinking because of the strange jumps that people make in their input.