Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
F. engin, skill, machine, engine, L. ingenium, natural capacity, invention; in, in + the root of gignere, to produce. See Genius, and cf. Ingenious Gin a snare
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
O. Fr. engin—L. ingenium, skill. See Ingenious.
In literature:
Through it all the engines turned steadily, driven to their utmost speed by the engineers and firemen.
"Merchantmen-at-Arms" by David W. Bone
The armament had been removed and the original gasoline engines were gone.
"The Pirates of Shan" by Harold Leland Goodwin
He found the engineer smoking near the engine hatch.
"Command" by William McFee
Opening up his engines, O'Malley roared after his flight.
"A Yankee Flier in Italy" by Rutherford G. Montgomery
The Guernsey passenger, hanging about the engine-room hatchway, heard the negro Imbrancam talking to his engineer comrade.
"Toilers of the Sea" by Victor Hugo
I like greatly the unthanked, unknown engineers who beat out these paths for the people who are to come after.
"Seeds of Pine" by Janey Canuck
The engine roared up, gears clanked and crashed, and the transport lunged forward.
"Dave Dawson at Dunkirk" by Robert Sydney Bowen
In the engine room, too, was a comfortable upholstered lounge for the engineer on duty to rest upon.
"The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam" by John Henry Goldfrap
Bill Kruchek's going-faster-than-hell engines, engineers called them.
"Planet of the Gods" by Robert Moore Williams
By John Montresor, Sub-Engineer, and Lieutenant Samuel Holland, Captain and Assistant Engineer.
"The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History" by Various
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In poetry:
When we are going in a train
At sixty miles an hour,
We marvel at the mighty speed,
And at the engines’ power.
"Earth’s Motion" by Edith L M King
And so we ride
Over land and tide,
Without a thought of fear—
Man never had
The faith in God
That he has in an engineer!
"The Word Of An Engineer" by James Weldon Johnson
Swiftly passed the engine's call,
Hastening souls on to death,
Warning not one of them all;
It brought despair right and left.
"Ashtabula Disaster" by Julia A Moore
The solo of the sounding wire,
The smoky engine's whistle,
Have drowned the sound of Yarrow stream,
The green trees' waving rustle.
"A Dream Of Yarrow" by Alexander Anderson
Stood half-naked infants shivering
With heart-frost amid the heat;
Manhood's shrunken sinews quivering
To the engine's horrid beat!
"The Factory Town" by Ernest Jones
The tempest howls,
The Ice Wolf prowls,
The winds they shift and veer,
But calm I sleep,
And faith I keep
In the word of an engineer.
"The Word Of An Engineer" by James Weldon Johnson
In news:
1984 Toranado 307 engine & trans 120,000 on engine, tranny fresh rebuild.
Numbers of minority engineers are growing but they still make up a small percentage of total engineers.
The number of minority professionals in engineering is creeping up, but not fast enough, according to a new report by the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering.
Search Engine Marketing is not everybody's cup of tea particularly then when you have no idea on what Search Engine Optimisation is and how this can be played with to bring the entire results in your favour.
General Motors' Town of Tonawanda Engine Plant has bid farewell to an engine it had produced since 1999, as it moves on to new products.
Nitrex Metal received an order from China's Xi'An Aero-Engine Group, a manufacturer of turbojet and turbofan engines and gas turbines.
Founded as an engine service company in 1932, Dallas Airmotive continues to specialize in engine repair and overhaul.
Greenman Pedersen, Inc (GPI), an engineering and construction services firm based out of Babylon with a Buffalo branch, has acquired Abate Associates Engineering and Surveyors, P.C.
" And solving problems is what engineers do, based on their accumulated knowledge of materials, properties, processes and applications – using both scientific/engineering and practical "hands on" approaches.
While Bob Crawford, right, watches, instructor Adam Bieri, left, overrides the governor on a small engine on its test run after being taken apart and put back together in the small engine class.
OURAY COUNTY – The United States Army Corps of Engineers has put the kibosh on an engineered proposal that would leave Laurence "Butch" Gunn's illegal tire dump in place.
KJWW Engineering Consultants is pleased to be part of the team for the SSM St Clare Health Center, recently named a 2011 Vista Award winner from the American Society for Healthcare Engineering ( ASHE ).
The plant produces engines for the Japanese automaker , and is now making four-cylinder engines for Mercedes.
This asset management tool communicates directly with the engine and monitors engine and equipment problems, reducing costly, unexpected failures that impact your bottom line.
Under Cole's leadership, GM tripled the engineering staff at Chevrolet , allowed more freedom in design and engine work and Chevrolet got more involved in auto racing.
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In science:
Second, it represents a sophisticated reasoning engine with several years of development.
QUIP - A Tool for Computing Nonmonotonic Reasoning Tasks
This statement is what most physicist and engineers are interested in, at least for low Reynolds numbers.
Existence and homogenization of the Rayleigh-B\'enard problem
Program of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation.
U-duality Between NCOS Theory and Matrix Theory
The finite element codes evaluate the Cij directly, but for simplicity we report the engineering constants.
Elastic moduli of model random three-dimensional closed-cell cellular solids
Ulam: Monte Carlo calculations in problems of mathematical physics, in Modern Mathematics for the Engineers, E.F.
Integrable Lattices: Random Matrices and Random Permutations
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