Engine vs Instrument - What's the difference?
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(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:
(obsolete) Natural talent; genius.
Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
* Bunyan
* Shakespeare
A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
* 1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
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).
(obsolete) To assault with an engine.
* (rfdate) T. Adams.
(dated) To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
(obsolete) To rack; to torture.
A device used to produce music.
A means or agency for achieving an effect.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
(legal) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
(figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To apply measuring devices.
To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
As nouns the difference between engine and instrument
is that engine is (obsolete) ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile while instrument is .As a verb engine
is (obsolete) to assault with an engine.engine
English
(wikipedia engine) (Engines)Noun
(en noun)- Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Against his praise to stirre vp enmitye [...].
- You see the ways the fisherman doth take / To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
- Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.
- 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 graphics engine'''; a physics '''engine
Synonyms
* motorDerived 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 engineVerb
(engin)- To engine and batter our walls.
- Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
- (Chaucer)
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* * English refractory feminine rhymesinstrument
English
(wikipedia instrument)Noun
(en noun)- The violinist was a master of her instrument .
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- The instrument detected an increase in radioactivity.
- The dentist set down his tray of instruments'''.'' The scientist recorded the temperature with a thermometer but wished he had a more accurate ' instrument ."
- A bond indenture is the instrument that gives a bond its value.
- Negotiable instruments are the foundation of the debt markets.
- Or useful serving man and instrument , / To any sovereign state.
- The bold are but the instruments of the wise.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* blunt instrument * debt instrument * derivative instrument * financial instrument * instrumentation * instrumental * instrumentive * measuring instrument * musical instrument * negotiable instrument * writing instrumentVerb
(en verb)- a sonata instrumented for orchestra