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From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related to ingignō (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious, engineer.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/

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• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnd͡ʒɪn/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɛnd͡ʒən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈend͡ʒɪn/, /ˈend͡ʒən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈend͡ʒɘn/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /inˈd͡ʒi(ː)n/
• Hyphenation: en‧gine
• Rhymes: -ɛnd͡ʒɪn, (pin–pen merger) -ɪnd͡ʒɪn

engine (plural engines)

1. A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:

     Their warlike Engins and munition
     Exceed the forces of their martial men.

2. (now archaic) A tool; a utensil or implement.
   • 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:

     Flattery must be the most powerful Argument that cou'd be used to Human Creatures. Making use of this bewitching Engine, they extoll'd the Excellency of our Nature above other Animals [...].

   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. , epistle I, London: Printed for J Wilford, , →OCLC, page 15, lines 248–251:

     What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?

3. A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
4. A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
   • 1834, L E L, chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 75:

     In France, the parliament soon became a mere engine in the hands of a few high-born and ambitious men, who had nothing in common with its interests, which were those of the people.

6. The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
7. A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
   2. (usually) A locomotive.
9. (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).

   a graphics engine

   a physics engine

10. (obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
11. (obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 193:

      Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Againſt his praiſe to ſtirre vp enmitye [...].

12. (obsolete) Natural talent; genius.
13. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
    • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 243, column 1:

      [...] their promiſes, entiſements, oathes, tokens, and all theſe engines of luſt [...].

    • 1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: , London: Nath Ponder , →OCLC:

      You ſee the ways the Fiſher-man doth take / To catch the Fiſh; what Engins doth he make?

• motor
• locomotive

• → Afrikaans: enjin
• → Bengali: ইঞ্জিন (injin)
• → Hindi: इंजन (iñjan)
• → Hong Kong Cantonese: engine
• → Iban: injin
• → Japanese: エンジン
  • → Hakka: 引擎 (ên-chín)
  • → Min Nan: 引擎 (ia̋n-jín)
• → Korean: 엔진 (enjin)
• → Malay: enjin
  • Indonesian: enjin
• → Portuguese: engine
• → Punjabi: ਇੰਞਣ (iññaṇ)
• → Scottish Gaelic: einnsean
• → Swahili: injini
• → Shanghainese: 引擎 (in¹-jin⁶)
  • → Chinese: 引擎 (yǐnqíng)

engine (third-person singular simple present engines, present participle engining, simple past and past participle engined)

1. (transitive, dated) To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.

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

2. (transitive, obsolete) To assault with an engine.
   • 1629, Thomas Adams, Plain-Dealing:

     to engine and batter our walls

3. (transitive, obsolete) To contrive; to put into action.

• “engine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “engine”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• ginnee

• N展 (en¹ zin²), N剪
• engin

From clipping of English engineering.

engine

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) engineering industry; engineer
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) engineering
   • 2001 May 23, 小賤, “好慢~~~~”, in talk.rumors‎ (Usenet):

     我都話我讀Engine
     無乜識到女仔咯 [Cantonese, trad.]
     我都话我读Engine
     无乜识到女仔咯 [Cantonese, simp.]

     ngo⁵ dou¹ waa⁶ ngo⁵ duk⁶ en¹ zin²
     mou⁵ mat¹ sik¹ dou² neoi⁵ zai² lok³

     I said I'm studying engineering, don't really get to know girls much

From English engine.

engine

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) engine (mechanical device; part of a vehicle; computing)

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engine f (plural engines)

1. (computing) engine (software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task)

   Synonym: motor

   • 2008 December, Felipe Micaroni Lalli, Felippe Franco Bueno, Guilherme Keese Zacharias, “Chrome” (chapter 4.2.8), in Evolução da programação web, Campinas: FAC, page 33:

     O navegador Chrome beta para Windows foi lançado setembro de 2008 e é um projeto de código-aberto do Google. A maior parte do seu código-fonte tem origem no código do Firefox e sua engine JavaScript foi baseada na engine do Safari e se chama V8. Essa engine atualmente supera a velocidade do TraceMonkey do Firefox […] .

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   • 2011 March 22, Nilton Kleina, “O que é engine ou motor gráfico?”, in TecMundo‎, São Paulo: NZN, archived from the original on 2012-06-27:

     Não é fácil prever quais os futuros avanços em motores gráficos, mas a próxima grande leva de engines deve surgir apenas na geração que vem a seguir.

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   • 2015 December, Rafael Nevez, “Yoshi’s Safari”, Prévia, in Nintendo Blast, number 72, Welcome to the jungle!, page 14:

     Usando uma engine gráfica semelhante à de Super Mario Kart (SNES), o game apresentou visuais belos para a época.

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   • 2019 March 12, Pedro Fernandes, “Vulnerabilidade no Github e Slack permitia instalação de malware”, in TugaTech‎, Portugal, archived from the original on 2024-12-01:

     De acordo com o portal HackRead, o malware aproveitava uma falha na engine para redirecionar os utilizadores para falsas páginas das plataformas, com objetivo de obter os dados de acesso a contas das mesmas.

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