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# engine

«engine» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine that burns fuel or uses power to make something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (engine, engines)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An engine is a machine that burns fuel or uses power to make something move, like a car, train or plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#m1)

2) The engine of a train is the front part that pulls the cars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#m2)

3) A fire engine is a fire truck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#m3)

4) A search engine is a website that finds things on the internet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a story word or a part counted, as in a plane with 2 engines (total = planes × engines each), or a fire engine; science: engines turn fuel into movement, electric motors; history: steam engines; everyday life: start the engine, the fire engine's siren; safety: move aside for fire engines

### examples

- A plane has 4 engines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#x1)
- The train engine pulls 12 cars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#x2)
- Two fire engines came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#x3)
- How many engines do 3 planes have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#x4)
- The car engine would not start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#x5)
- Steam engines burn coal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#x6)
- Use a search engine to find facts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#x7)
- Pull over when you hear a fire engine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#x8)
- He had been running a long time before the engine; he had no idea that I was travelling there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/#x9)

### note

Thing counted, sometimes a per-item number. Trap: none special. An engine burns fuel; a motor can run on electricity.

### In the corpora

- [Dogs learn the sound of each car engine, and they hear a dog whistle that is too high for people to hear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/11/)
- [The baiji found fish by sending clicks and listening for echoes, and ship engines may have drowned them out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/4/)
- [Crying on the platform, he wonders about hiding under a seat, when a kind engine-driver says «Hullo, mother!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/3/)
- [A siren means an emergency vehicle, such as an ambulance, a fire engine or a police car, is coming.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/6/)
- [Knowing your address helps an ambulance or fire engine reach you faster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/36-calling-emergency-services/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «engine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/engine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.