Definizione monolingua

engine

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, especially heat energy
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).

Definizione dizionario engine

	motore
	influential group
	mechanical device
	A machine in which power is applied to do work by the conversion of various forms of energy into mechanical force and motion.
	A processor or portion of a program that determines how the program manages and manipulates data. The term engine is most often used in relation to a specific use.

	locomotiva
	locomotive

	motrice
	locomotive

gruppo motore

macchina

ordigno

propulsore

Altri significati:

(obsolete) Cunning, trickery.

A person or group of people which influence a larger group.

(informal) the brain or heart.

(obsolete) The result of cunning; a plot, a scheme.

brain or heart

A powered locomotive used for pulling cars on railways.

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

(engineering) A device to convert energy into useful mechanical motion, especially heat energy