What is the meaning of ENGINE. Phrases containing ENGINE
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Engineers and stokers is London Cockney rhyming slang for bailiffs (brokers).
An engine moving outside the yard without cars attached
A signaling system linking bridge and main engineering control; used to command engine speeds.
Engineer's spanner was old London Cockney rhyming slang for a sixpence (tanner).
One of the machinery spaces of a vessel, usually the largest one, containing the ship's main engines.
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v. t.
To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.
n.
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.
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One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
pl.
of Engineman
imp. & p. p.
of Engineer
n.
The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch.
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An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
v. t.
To assault with an engine.
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A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Engineer
v. t.
To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
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Engines, in general; instruments of war.
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Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.
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any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques.
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A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.
v. t.
To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.
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The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
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