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[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: engin 'cleverness, machine', from Latin ingenium 'abilities you are born with']
the part of a vehicle that produces power to make it move
-see also motor motor
start/switch on an engine
::The engine won't start.
stop/turn off/switch off an engine
::He switched off the car's engine and waited.
::Is the engine running smoothly?
diesel/petrol etc engine
::an old steam engine
::We were stranded with engine trouble on a deserted highway.
a vehicle that pulls a railway train
[usually singular] formal something powerful that causes great changes in society
engine of change/growth etc
::The Marshall Plan was the engine of postwar economic growth.
::Rome's deadly war engine
-see also fire engine