ENGINE

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Traducere în limba română

engine I. substantiv

1. (tehn.) maşini; motor.

2. (tehn.) locomotivă; maşină cu abur.

3. (fig.) instrument, agent, mijloc.

4. pompă de incendiu; unelte / maşini de război, piese de artilerie; instrumente de tortură.

5. (fig.) chichiţă, meşteşug, şiretlic.

6. (înv.) spirit, inteligenţă, pricepere.

engine II. verb tranzitiv

a pune în acţiune / mişcare, a mişca.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

In the left pocket, another engine of the same kind.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

I slept in a room on the same floor with my aunt's, and was a little disturbed in the course of the night by her knocking at my door as often as she was agitated by a distant sound of hackney-coaches or market-carts, and inquiring, if I heard the engines?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The new development is raising the possibility that these materials could enable a wide range of products that perform simple to complex movements, from tiny engines and valves to solar arrays that bend toward the sunlight.

(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, Editura Global Info)

In the left there was a sort of engine, from the back of which were extended twenty long poles, resembling the pallisados before your majesty’s court: wherewith we conjecture the man-mountain combs his head; for we did not always trouble him with questions, because we found it a great difficulty to make him understand us.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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