English-French translations for engine

• moteur
  Réception des véhicules à moteur et des moteurs ( Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines (
  Réception des véhicules à moteur et des moteurs (débat) Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines (debate)
  C’est le moteur de l’intégration. It is the engine of integration.
• engin
  L'affaire en question oppose l'Amalgamated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen et le Royaume-Uni. The case in question was that of the Amalgamated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen versus the UK.
  Pour ce faire, des financements privés seuls ne suffiront pas, et on ne pourra pas se contenter de faire de l'engineering. Private finance alone will not be enough to achieve this, and we cannot be content just to indulge in engineering.
• locomotive
  L'affaire en question oppose l'Amalgamated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen et le Royaume-Uni. The case in question was that of the Amalgamated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen versus the UK.
  Nous avons aussi besoin d’un marché unique des conducteurs de locomotives. We need a single market for engine drivers too.
  C'est évidemment un personnage qui n'y connaît rien en matière de locomotives et dont les connaissances se limitent au jeu vidéo "Thomas the Tank Engine". Of course, this is a man who would not know one end of a railway locomotive from the other and whose expertise is restricted to Thomas the Tank Engine.
• machine
  Ce fut un véritable privilège de siéger dans la salle des machines de l'intégration européenne. It has been a true privilege to be in the very engine-house of European integration.
  J'ai pu voir de telles machines et elles sont conçues de manière à garantir un très haut niveau de sécurité. I have seen these installations. They are engineered to very high standards of safety.

Definition of engine

• A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
• A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
• The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
• A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task .
• Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
• Natural talent; genius.
• To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels
• To assault with an engine
• To contrive; to put into action

Examples

• a graphics engine; a physics engine
• Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

Related words

• engineer
• engineering
• reverse-engineer
• twin-engine
• reengineering
• geoengineering
• engineerization
• reverse-engineering
• overengineering