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Of or pertaining to England or its people.
English-language; of or pertaining to the English language.
Of or pertaining to an Englishman or Englishwoman.
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Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
(Amish) Non-Amish.
(collective plural) The people of England; Englishmen and Englishwomen.
The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.
(Amish, collective plural) The non-Amish.
(surname)
One's ability to employ the English language correctly.
The English-language term or expression for something.
Specific language or wording; a text or statements in speech, whether a translation or otherwise.
(countable) A regional type of spoken and or written English; a dialect.
(printing, dated) A kind of type, in size between pica and great primer.
(North American) Spin or side given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards.
(archaic) To translate, adapt or render into English.
*, page 214 (2001 reprint):
*:severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.
(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.
As nouns the difference between english and engine
is that english is (us) spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling while engine is (obsolete) ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.As a verb engine is
(obsolete) to assault with an engine.english
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The Scottish and the English have a history of conflict.
- English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
Usage notes
* The name of the language, English , when it means "the English language", does not assume an article. Hence: "Say it in plain English!" * The people as a collective noun require the definite article "the" or a demonstrative adjective. Hence: "The English are coming!" or "Oh, those English, always drinking their tea..."Noun
(en-noun)- My coworker has pretty good English for a non-native speaker.
- How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English ?
- The technical details are correct, but the English is not very clear.
- Put more English on the ball.
Verb
(es)Derived terms
* African American Vernacular English * American English * Australian English * BBC English * British English * Canadian English * Commonwealth English * Early Modern English * Elizabethan English * English Bluebell * English Channel * English basement * English bond * English breakfast * English breakfast tea * English flute * English garden * English horn * English Latin * English mile * English muffin * English pale * English pea * English pease * English plantain * English plus * English rhubarb * English saddle * English sonnet * English sparrow * English studies * English vice * English walnut * English wheat * Englishman * Englishmen * Englishness * Englishwoman * Englishwomen * Estuary English * full English * full English breakfast * gone English * Hiberno-English * Indian English * King's English * Korean English * Medieval English * Middle English * Modern English * Multicultural London English * Newfoundland English * New Zealand English * Old English * Old English Sheepdog * Queen's English * Scottish English * South African English * Standard English * White English Bulldog * do you speak English?See also
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* (l) English autological termsengine
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)