Air engine () An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. |
Break (v. t.) To strain apart |
Break (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking |
Break (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose |
Break (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. |
Break (v. t.) To interrupt |
Break (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of |
Break (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of |
Break (v. t.) To shatter to pieces |
Break (v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination |
Break (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of |
Break (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. |
Break (v. t.) To diminish the force of |
Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information |
Break (v. t.) To tame |
Break (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of |
Break (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of |
Break (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence |
Break (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. |
Break (v. i.) To burst forth |
Break (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm. |
Break (v. i.) To open up |
Break (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties |
Break (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief |
Break (v. i.) To fall in business |
Break (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change |
Break (v. i.) To fail in musical quality |
Break (v. i.) To fall out |
Break (v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption. |
Break (v. t.) An interruption of continuity |
Break (v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building. |
Break (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current. |
Break (v. t.) An interruption |
Break (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. |
Break (v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning |
Break (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind. |
Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10. |
Break (n.) See Commutator. |
Break-circuit (n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. |
Breakdown (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage |
Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down. |
Breakdown (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time. |
Break-up (n.) Disruption |
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 |
break breakout jailbreak gaolbreak prisonbreak prison-breaking | an escape from jail, the breakout was carefully planned |
failure | an unexpected omission, he resented my failure to return his call, the mechanic's failure to check the brakes |
failure | an act that fails, his failure to pass the test |
open frame break | any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare, the break in the eighth frame cost him the match |
fast break | (basketball) a rapid dash to get a shot as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball |
break | a sudden dash, he made a break for the open door |
breakage break breaking | the act of breaking something, the breakage was unavoidable |
break interruption disruption gap | an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity, it was presented without commercial breaks, there was a gap in his account |
break break of serve | (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving, he was up two breaks in the second set |
break | the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool |
break dancing break dance | a form of solo dancing that involves rapid acrobatic moves in which different parts of the body touch the ground, normally performed to the rhythm of rap music |
dislocation breakdown | the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue, the social dislocations resulting from government policies, his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London |
drafting mechanical drawing | the craft of drawing blueprints |
trouble difficulty | an effort that is inconvenient, I went to a lot of trouble, he won without any trouble, had difficulty walking, finished the test only with great difficulty |
housebreaking break-in breaking and entering | trespassing for an unlawful purpose, illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent |
respite recess break time out | a pause from doing something (as work), we took a -minute break, he took time out to recuperate |
spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
aircraft engine | the engine that powers and aircraft |
android humanoid mechanical man | an automaton that resembles a human being |
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) |
break seal | a seal that must be broken when first used and cannot easily be resealed, it was stored in a tube with a break seal |
cooling system engine cooling system | equipment in a motor vehicle that cools the engine |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
heat engine | any engine that makes use of heat to do work |
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 |
locomotive engine locomotive engine railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
mechanical device | mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles |
mechanical drawing | scale drawing of a machine or architectural plan etc, |
mechanical piano Pianola player piano | a mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys |
mechanical system | a system of elements that interact on mechanical principles |
pilot engine | a locomotive that precedes a train to check the track |
press mechanical press | any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids |
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 |