engine

Other forms of engine

plural

engines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about engine

What does engine mean?

engine means "motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in engine?

engine has 2 syllables: en-gine. The stress falls on "en". In IPA it is /ˈɛndʒən/.

What is another word for engine?

Close synonyms include locomotive, locomotive engine, railway locomotive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is engine a common word?

engine is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.