Air engine () An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. |
Burgess-ship (n.) The state of privilege of a burgess. |
Capstan (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. |
Engine (n.) (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity |
Engine (n.) Anything used to effect a purpose |
Engine (n.) Any instrument by which any effect is produced |
Engine (n.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. |
Engine (v. t.) To assault with an engine. |
Engine (v. t.) To equip with an engine |
Engine (v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack |
Engine-sized (a.) Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp |
Gauger-ship (n.) The office of a gauger. |
High-churchman-ship (n.) The state of being a high-churchman. |
Hostess-ship (n.) The character, personality, or office of a hostess. |
Light-ship (n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners. |
Lode-ship (n.) An old name for a pilot boat. |
Log-ship (n.) A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2. |
-ship (n.) A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art |
Ship (n.) Pay |
Ship (n.) Any large seagoing vessel. |
Ship (n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix. |
Ship (n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. |
Ship (v. t.) To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation |
Ship (v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance |
Ship (v. t.) Hence, to send away |
Ship (v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship |
Ship (v. t.) To receive on board ship |
Ship (v. t.) To put in its place |
Ship (v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel |
Ship (v. i.) To embark on a ship. |
Ship-rigged (a.) Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails. |
Steam engine () An engine moved by steam. |
Water engine () An engine to raise water |
shipbuilding ship building | the construction of ships |
abandoned ship derelict | a ship abandoned on the high seas |
aircraft engine | the engine that powers and aircraft |
automobile engine | the engine that propels an automobile |
auxiliary engine donkey engine | (nautical) a small engine (as one used on board ships to operate a windlass) |
bottom freighter merchantman merchant ship | a cargo ship, they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms |
capital ship | a warship of the first rank in size and armament |
capstan | a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis, used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails |
cargo ship cargo vessel | a ship designed to carry cargo |
clipper clipper ship | a fast sailing ship used in former times |
container ship containership container vessel | a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes, the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceedpounds |
cooling system engine cooling system | equipment in a motor vehicle that cools the engine |
cruise ship cruise liner | a passenger ship used commercially for pleasure cruises |
diesel diesel engine diesel motor | an internalombustion engine that burns heavy oil |
engine | motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work |
engine | an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc., medieval engines of war |
engine block cylinder block block | a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine, the engine had to be replaced because the block was cracked |
engineering engine room | a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located |
externalombustion engine | a heat engine in which ignition occurs outside the chamber (cylinder or turbine) in which heat is converted to mechanical energy |
factory ship | a whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea |
fanjet fan-jet fanjet engine turbojet turbojet engine turbofan turbofan engine | a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust |
fire engine fire truck | any of various large trucks that carry firemen and equipment to the site of a fire |
fire ship | a weapon consisting of a ship carrying explosives that is set adrift to destroy enemy ships |
four-stroke engine four-stroke internalombustion engine | an internalombustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke, work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke |
galley ship's galley caboose cookhouse | the area for food preparation on a ship |
gas engine | an internalombustion engine similar to a gasoline engine but using natural gas instead of gasoline vapor |
gasoline engine petrol engine | an internalombustion engine that burns gasoline, most automobiles are driven by gasoline engines |
gas-turbine ship | a ship powered by a gas turbine |
guard ship | a warship (at anchor or under way) required to maintain a higher degree of readiness than others in its squadron |
heat engine | any engine that makes use of heat to do work |
hospital ship | a ship built to serve as a hospital, used for wounded in wartime |
internalombustion engine ICE | a heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace, heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine |
ion engine | a type of reaction-propulsion engine to propel rockets in space, a stream of positive ions is accelerated to a high velocity by an electric field |
jet engine | a gas turbine produces a stream of hot gas that propels a jet plane by reaction propulsion |
Liberty ship | a slow cargo ship built during World War II |
locomotive engine locomotive engine railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
man-of-war ship of the line | a warship intended for combat |
nuclear-powered ship | ship whose motive power comes from the energy of a nuclear reactor |
oil tanker oiler tanker tank ship | a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk |
passenger ship | a ship built to carry passengers |
patrol boat patrol ship | a vessel assigned to patrol an area |
picket ship | a ship serving as a picket |
pilot engine | a locomotive that precedes a train to check the track |
pirate pirate ship | a ship that is manned by pirates |
radial engine rotary engine | an internalombustion engine having cylinders arranged radially around a central crankcase |
ramjet ramjet engine atherodyde athodyd flying drainpipe | a simple type of jet engine, must be launched at high speed |
reaction-propulsion engine reaction engine | a jet or rocket engine based on a form of aerodynamic propulsion in which the vehicle emits a high-speed stream |
reciprocating engine | an internalombustion engine in which the crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down in cylinders |
rocket rocket engine | a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion |
rotary engine | an internalombustion engine in which power is transmitted directly to rotating components |