Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“engines” is a form of

engine

/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/ noun, verb

Forms engines engining engined

  1. noun A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
  2. noun (now archaic) A tool; a utensil or implement.
  3. noun A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
  4. noun A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
  5. noun The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
  6. noun A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
  7. noun (usually) A locomotive.
  8. noun (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word). “a graphics engine”
  9. verb (transitive, dated) To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels. “Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.”
  10. verb (transitive, obsolete) To assault with an engine.
  11. verb (transitive, obsolete) To contrive; to put into action.

Synonyms

drive motor locomotive locomotive engine railway locomotive

Etymology

From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin (“skill, cleverness, war machine”), from Latin ingenium (“innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, (in Late Latin) a war-engine, battering-ram”), related to ingignō (“to instil by birth, implant, produce in”). Compare gin, ingenious, engineer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (Pronounced, in this sense, [Obs.]
  2. noun Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent. Shak.
  3. verb To assault with an engine. [Obs.]
  4. verb To equip with an engine; --said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

Etymology [F. engin skill, machine, engine, L. ingenium natural capacity, invention; in in + the root of gignere to produce. See Genius, and cf. Ingenious, Gin a snare.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “engine”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “engine” (best matches first).