All engine synonyms

noun engine

• locomotive — a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars.
• steam engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
• tank engine — locomotive train
• train — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
• tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
• appliance — An appliance is a device or machine in your home that you use to do a job such as cleaning or cooking. Appliances are often electrical.
• diesel — noting a machine or vehicle powered by a diesel engine: diesel locomotive.
• generator — a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
• instrument — a mechanical tool or implement, especially one used for delicate or precision work: surgical instruments.
• motor — a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
• power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
• tool — an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
• transformer — a person or thing that transforms.
• turbine — any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing through and entirely filling a housing around the rotor.
• weapon — any instrument or device for use in attack or defense in combat, fighting, or war, as a sword, rifle, or cannon.
• agent — A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
• apparatus — The apparatus of an organization or system is its structure and method of operation.
• barrel — A barrel is a large, round container for liquids or food.
• contrivance — If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
• cylinder — A cylinder is an object with flat circular ends and long straight sides.
• dynamo — A machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy; a generator.
• fan — an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.
• horses — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
• implement — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
• means — to have in mind as one's purpose or intention; intend: I meant to compliment you on your work. Synonyms: contemplate.
• mechanism — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
• piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
• pot — a deep hole; pit.
• powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
• power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
• putt-putt — Informal. to operate with sounds suggesting a put-put, as a small motor or motor-driven device.
• rubber band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.