engines
engines is the plural of engine.
engines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of engine.
Meaning of engine
Noun
engine (plural engines)
- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- Their warlike Engins and munition
Exceed the forces of their martial men.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- Their warlike Engins and munition
- A tool; a utensil or implement.
- 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 [...].1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- 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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 75
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
Phrases with engines
- U engines
- V engines
- W engines
- air engines
- gas engines
- ion engines
- jet engines
- man engines
- aero engines
- bank engines
- beam engines
- beer engines
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- duct engines
- fire engines
- game engines
- heat engines
- Hero engines
- Novi engines
- Otto engines
- pony engines
- pulp engines
- rose engines
- sand engines
- spit engines
- tank engines
- wind engines
- boxer engines
- chaff engines
- chess engines
- crane engines
- crate engines
- ether engines
- light engines
- pilot engines
- siege engines
- solar engines
- steam engines
- water engines
- answer engines
- Carnot engines
- dental engines
- diesel engines
- donkey engines
- garden engines
- inline engines
- Lenoir engines
- marine engines
- monkey engines
- petrol engines
- piston engines
- radial engines
- rocket engines
- rotary engines
- search engines
- simple engines
- square engines
- switch engines
- tandem engines
- tender engines
- Wankel engines
- banking engines
- corncob engines
- Cornish engines
- draught engines
- in-line engines
- pancake engines
- ringing engines
- steeple engines
- stellar engines
- storage engines
- winding engines
- aircraft engines
- chemical engines
- compound engines
- database engines
- dividing engines
- electric engines
- graphics engines
- harmonic engines
- military engines
- overhead engines
- portable engines
- reaction engines
- shunting engines
- software engines
- Stirling engines
- straight engines
- traction engines
- cycloidal engines
- East-West engines
- analytical engines
- combustion engines
- difference engines
- metasearch engines
- stationary engines
- two-stroke engines
- atmospheric engines
- Carnot heat engines
- four-stroke engines
- information engines
- reciprocating engines
- duplex pumping engines
- entry ignition engines
- honorary steam engines
- runaway diesel engines
- pulse detonation engines
- human flesh search engines
- triple combination engines
- internal combustion engines
- internal-combustion engines
Questions about engines
- What is engines the plural of?
- Engines is the plural of engine.
Words near engines in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: engines (page history and authors); engine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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