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    • Couch Potatoeundefined
      Couch Potatoe
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      motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work

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        Engine meaning & definition 3 of Engine.

      • Jacobanadeundefined
        Jacobanade
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        something used to achieve a purpose

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          Engine meaning & definition 4 of Engine.

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

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

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              Engine meaning & definition 6 of Engine.

            • Jason Yanundefined
              Jason Yan
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              Cunning, trickery.

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                Engine meaning & definition 7 of Engine.

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

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                  Engine meaning & definition 8 of Engine.

                • Ernestdydayundefined
                  Ernestdyday
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                  A powered locomotive used for pulling cars on railways.

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                    Engine meaning & definition 9 of Engine.

                  • Vihan Dobiriyalundefined
                    Vihan Dobiriyal
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                    the brain or heart.

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                      Engine meaning & definition 10 of Engine.

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

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                        Engine meaning & definition 11 of Engine.

                      • Mark Zuckerbergundefined
                        Mark Zuckerberg
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                        To assault with an engine.

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                          Engine meaning & definition 12 of Engine.

                        • Beckyundefined
                          Becky
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                          (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill

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                            Engine meaning & definition 13 of Engine.

                          • Rihannaundefined
                            Rihanna
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                            anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent

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                              Engine meaning & definition 14 of Engine.

                            • sastergriundefined
                              sastergri
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                              en′jin, n. a complex and powerful machine, esp. a prime mover: a military machine: anything used to effect a purpose: a device: contrivance: (obs.) ability, genius.—v.t. to contrive: to put into action.—ns. En′gine-driv′er, one who manages an engine, esp. who drives a locomotive; Engineer′, an engine maker or manager: one who directs works and engines: a soldier belonging to the division of the army called Engineers, consisting of men trained to engineering work.—v.i. to act as an engineer.—v.t. to arrange, contrive.—ns. Engineer′ing, the art or profession of an engineer; En′gine-man, one who drives an engine; En′gine-room, the room in a vessel in which the engines are placed; En′ginery, the art or business of managing engines: engines collectively: machinery; En′gine-turn′ing, a kind of ornament made by a rose-engine, as on the backs of watches, c.—Civil engineer (see Civil). [O. Fr. engin—L. ingenium, skill. See Ingenious.]

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                                Engine meaning & definition 15 of Engine.

                              • Camiundefined
                                Cami
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                                1. A piece of hardware that encapsulates some function but cant be
                                  used without some kind of front end. Today we have,
                                  especially, print engine: the guts of
                                  a laser printer. 2. An analogous piece of software; notionally, one that does a lot
                                  of noisy crunching, such as a database
                                  engine.The hacker senses of engine are
                                  actually close to its original, pre-Industrial-Revolution sense of a skill,
                                  clever device, or instrument (the word is cognate to
                                  ‘ingenuity’). This sense had not been completely eclipsed by
                                  the modern connotation of power-transducing machinery in Charles Babbages
                                  time, which explains why he named the stored-program computer that he
                                  designed in 1844 the Analytical
                                  Engine.
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                                • MonicaLesundefined
                                  MonicaLes
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                                  A type of machine created and designed in various colors, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes and styles.

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