Word Meanings - ENGINEMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

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• ENGINER
  A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak.
• ENGINERY
  1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.
• ENGINEMAN
  A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.
• ENGINEER CORPS; CORPS OF ENGINEERS
  In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction
• ENGINE
  A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. -- Engine lathe. See under Lathe. -- Engine tool, a machine tool.
• ENGINEER
  1. A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n. 2. One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver. 3. One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful
• ENGINEERING
  Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer. Note:
• ENGINE-SIZED
  Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight.
• ENGINE-TYPE GENERATOR
  A generator having its revolving part carried on the shaft of the driving engine.
• AIR ENGINE
  An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• RADIAL ENGINE
  An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft.
• SEMIRADIAL ENGINE
  See ABOVE
• STEAM ENGINE
  An engine moved by steam. Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the action of the valve gear, and communicates motion to the
• TANDEM ENGINE
  A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line, with a common piston rod.
• WATER ENGINE
  An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
• GAS ENGINE
  A kind of internal-combustion engine using fixed gas; also, broadly, any internal-combustion engine.
• GASOLINE ENGINE; GASOLENE ENGINE
  A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.
• MALENGINE
  Evil machination; guile; deceit. Gower.
• DIESEL ENGINE; DIESEL MOTOR
  A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel , the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has
• INTERNAL-COMBUSTION; INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE
  Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an Internal- combustion engine) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber,
• BOGIE ENGINE
  A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.