Air engine
() An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. |
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 |
Napier's rods
() A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table |
Radius
(n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery |
Radius
(n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla. |
Radius
(n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2. |
Radius
(n.) The barbs of a perfect feather. |
Radius
(n.) Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates. |
Radius
(n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument. |
Radius vector
() A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coordinates. See Coordinate, n. |
Radius vector
(n.) An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite. |
Railway
(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. |
Railway
(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property |
Steam
(n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points |
Steam
(n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor |
Steam
(n.) Any exhalation. |
Steam
(v. i.) To emit steam or vapor. |
Steam
(v. i.) To rise in vapor |
Steam
(v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam. |
Steam
(v. i.) To generate steam |
Steam
(v. t.) To exhale. |
Steam
(v. t.) To expose to the action of steam |
Steam engine
() An engine moved by steam. |
Water engine
() An engine to raise water |
Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
Turkish bath
steam bath
vapor bath
vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
| steam fitting | care (installation and maintenance) of equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating |
| 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) |
boiler
steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
calliope
steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
car railcar
railway car
railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
| 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 |
elevated railway
elevated railroad
elevated
el
overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
| 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 |
line railway line
rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive
engine locomotive engine
railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
Napier's bones
Napier's rods | a set of graduated rods formerly used to do multiplication and division by a method invented by John Napier |
parallel bars
bars | gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights |
| pilot engine | a locomotive that precedes a train to check the track |
radial engine
rotary engine | an internalombustion engine having cylinders arranged radially around a central crankcase |
railroad track
railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway
railroad
railroad line
railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
| railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station
railroad station
railroad terminal
train station
train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
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 |
| scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
spoke
wheel spoke
radius | support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim |
Stars and Bars
Confederate flag | the first flag of the Confederate States of America |
steam bath
steam room
vapor bath
vapour bath | a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe, `vapour bath' is a British term |
| steam chest | the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder |
| steam engine | externalombustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder |
steam heat
steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators |