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Engine vs Dieselize - What's the difference?

engine | dieselize |

As verbs the difference between engine and dieselize

is that engine is (obsolete) to assault with an engine while dieselize is (us) to convert or adapt an engine to diesel fule.

As a noun engine

is (obsolete) ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.

engine

English

(wikipedia engine) (Engines)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
  • (obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Against his praise to stirre vp enmitye [...].
  • (obsolete) Natural talent; genius.
  • Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
  • * Bunyan
    • You see the ways the fisherman doth take / To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
  • * Shakespeare
    • Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.
  • A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
  • * 1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
    • Flattery must be the most powerful Argument that cou'd be used to Human Creatures. Making use of this bewitching Engine , they extoll'd the Excellency of our Nature above other Animals [...].
  • A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
  • A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
  • The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
  • A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.
  • (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
    • a graphics engine'''; a physics '''engine

    Synonyms

    * motor

    Derived terms

    * aero engine * aircraft engine * diesel engine * engine driver * engine trouble * engineer * fire engine * four-stroke engine * jet engine * marine engine * search engine * steam engine * tank engine * two-stroke engine

    Related terms

    * genius * ingenious * ingeniosity

    Verb

    (engin)
  • (obsolete) To assault with an engine.
  • * (rfdate) T. Adams.
    • To engine and batter our walls.
  • (dated) To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
    • Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
  • (obsolete) To rack; to torture.
    • (Chaucer)

    External links

    * * English refractory feminine rhymes

    dieselize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK ) dieselise

    Verb

    (dieseliz)
  • (US) To convert or adapt an engine to diesel fule.