engine
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Is engine a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of engine?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (now archaic) A tool; a utensil or implement.Examples: "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 [...]."; "What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?"archaic
2. A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.usually
3. (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).Examples: "a graphics engine"; "a physics engine"
4. (obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.obsolete
5. (obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.Examples: "Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Againſt his praiſe to ſtirre vp enmitye [...]."obsolete
6. (obsolete) Natural talent; genius.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, dated) To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.Examples: "Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another."datedtransitive
2. (transitive, obsolete) To assault with an engine.Examples: "to engine and batter our walls"obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive, obsolete) To contrive; to put into action.obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary