engine

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Etymology

From Middle English engin < Old French engin (“skill", "cleverness", "war machine”) < Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genious, an invention, in Late Latin a war-engine, battering-ram”) < ingenitum, past participle of ingignere (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”); see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.

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Noun

engine (plural engines)

  1. (obsolete) Cunning, trickery.
  2. (obsolete) The result of cunning; a plot, a scheme.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
      Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Against his praise to stirre vp enmitye [...].
  3. (engineering) A device to convert energy into useful mechanical motion.
  4. A powered locomotive used for pulling cars on railways.
  5. A person or group of people which influence a larger group.
  6. (informal) the brain or heart.
  7. (computing) A software system, not a complete program, responsible for a technical task (as in layout engine, physics engine).

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