Machine and Engine

noun

• Any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks.
• An efficient person.
  • usage: "the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine"
• An intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently.
  • usage: "the war machine"
• A device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point.
  • synonyms: simple machine
• A group that controls the activities of a political party.
  • usage: "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine"
  • synonyms: political machine
• A motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.
  • usage: "he needs a car to get to work"
  • synonyms: car, auto, automobile, motorcar

verb

• Turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery.
• Make by machinery.
  • usage: "The Americans were machining while others still hand-made cars"

• (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
• (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
• (n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
• (n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
• (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
• (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
• (v.t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

noun

• Motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work.
• Something used to achieve a purpose.
  • usage: "an engine of change"
• A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks.
  • synonyms: locomotive, locomotive engine, railway locomotive
• An instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc..
  • usage: "medieval engines of war"

• (n.) (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.
• (n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
• (v.t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture.
• (v.t.) To assault with an engine.
• (n.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.
• (n.) Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.
• (v.t.) To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.