engine

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Inside the engine is a potent-enough Briggs and Stratton gas engine which, given the engine gearbox 50: 1 ratio, would have been powerful enough to pull the engine and two cars.

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  1. noun A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion.
  2. noun Such a machine distinguished from an electric, spring-driven, or hydraulic motor by its use of a fuel.
  3. noun A mechanical appliance, instrument, or tool: engines of war.
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  • By comparison, the redline for the engine is approximately 6,500 rpm —  Autoblog
  • This engine is a great advancement over the 4-cylinder midgets manufactured a few years ago by several makers, for this one really develops some horsepower whereas the others wouldn't pull a greased kitten out of bed. —  Modern Mechanix
  • As with the V7 Classic, the engine is the weakest link on the Guzzi Café Classic, although it's only lacking when compared directly to more modern units.
  • Performance can be further improved by adding support for condition pushdown for MySQL 5.1 and by implementing the batch key access interface when the engine is available in MySQL 6. —  Planet MySQL
  • The black canister and tubing, mounted on the left front of the engine is the California Evaporative Emission System. —  webBikeWorld.com
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  1. Middle English engin, skill, machine, from Old French, innate ability, from Latin ingenium; see genə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. ingine, ingin; from Middle English engin, engyn, engen, rarely ingyne (with accent on second syllable, whence by apheresis often gin, gyn, ginne, gynne, later modern English gin, q. v.), later Old French engin, enging, engeng, engeinh, enginh, natural ability, artifice, a mechanical contrivance, especially a war-engine, a battering-ram, French engin = Provencal engin, engen = Old Spanish engeño, Spanish ingenio = Portuguese engenho = Italian ingegno, from Latin ingenium, innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, in Late Latin a war-engine, battering-ram, from ingignere (past participle ingenitus), instil by birth, implant, produce in: see ingenious, and cf. genius.
  2. from Middle English enginen, engynen, contrive, deceive, torture, from Old French engignier, engigner, engenier, engenhier, contrive, invent, deceive, intrigue, etc., = Provencal enginhar = Old Spanish engen˜ar, Spanish ingeniar = Portuguese engenhar = Italian ingegnare, deceive, dupe, etc., from Middle Latin ingeniare, contrive, attack with engines, dep. ingeniari, intrigue, deceive, from Latin ingenium, genius, invention, Late Latin an engine: see engine, n.
 

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