Usually means: Machine converting energy into motion.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. engine: Merriam-Webster
  2. engine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. engine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. engine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. engine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Engine, engine: Wordnik
  7. engine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Engine: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. engine: Wiktionary
  10. engine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. engine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. engine: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. engine: Dictionary.com
  14. engine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. engine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Engine (American Music Club album), Engine (Engine album), Engine (Jinn album), Engine (Loudness album), Engine (TV series), Engine (UK band), Engine (computer science), Engine (disambiguation), Engine (organization), Engine, The Engine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Engine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. engine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. engine: Rhymezone
  20. engine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. engine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. engine: FreeDictionary.org
  23. engine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. engine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Engine: World Wide Words
  26. engine: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. engine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. engine: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. engine: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. engine: Encyclopedia
  4. Technopedia (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ENGINE: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Engine: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Engine: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. engine: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. engine: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Engine: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See engined as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
noun:  (now archaic) A tool; a utensil or implement.
noun:  A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
noun:  A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
noun:  The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
noun:  A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for moving cars along a track.
noun:  (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
noun:  (obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
noun:  (obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
noun:  (obsolete) Natural talent; genius.
noun:  Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To assault with an engine.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To contrive; to put into action.

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