Cunning vs. Engine

Cunningadjective

Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

Enginenoun

A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.

Cunningadjective

(obsolete) Skillful, artful.

Enginenoun

A tool; a utensil or implement.

Cunningadjective

(obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.

‘cunning work’;

Enginenoun

A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.

Cunningadjective

Cute, appealing.

‘a cunning little boy''’;

Enginenoun

A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.

Cunningnoun

Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.

Enginenoun

The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.

Cunningnoun

Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit.

Enginenoun

A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.

Cunningnoun

The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.

Enginenoun

(computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).

‘a graphics engine; a physics engine’;

Cunningnoun

The natural wit or instincts of an animal.

‘the cunning of the fox or hare’;

Enginenoun

(obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.

Cunningnoun

(obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).

Enginenoun

(obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.

Cunningadjective

Knowing; skillful; dexterous.

‘"Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and whiteNature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.’; ‘Esau was a cunning hunter.’;

Enginenoun

(obsolete) Natural talent; genius.

Cunningadjective

Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.

‘Over them Arachne high did lift’;

Enginenoun

Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

Cunningadjective

Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.

‘They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.’;

Engineverb

To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.

‘Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.’;

Cunningadjective

Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.

Engineverb

To assault with an engine.

Cunningnoun

Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.

‘Let my right hand forget her cunning.’; ‘A carpenter's desertStands more in cunning than in power.’;

Engineverb

To contrive; to put into action.

Cunningnoun

The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.

‘Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.’; ‘We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.’;

Engineverb

To rack; to torture.

Cunningnoun

shrewdness in deception;

‘as cunning as a fox’;

Enginenoun

Natural capacity; ability; skill.

‘A man hath sapiences three,Memory, engine, and intellect also.’;

Cunningnoun

shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Enginenoun

Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; a machine; an agent.

‘You see the ways the fisherman doth takeTo catch the fish; what engines doth he make?’; ‘Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.’;

Cunningnoun

drafty artfulness (especially in deception)

Enginenoun

Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.

Cunningadjective

attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness;

‘a cute kid with pigtails’; ‘a cute little apartment’; ‘cunning kittens’; ‘a cunning baby’;

Enginenoun

A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.

Cunningadjective

marked by skill in deception;

‘cunning men often pass for wise’; ‘deep political machinations’; ‘a foxy scheme’; ‘a slick evasive answer’; ‘sly as a fox’; ‘tricky Dik’; ‘a wily old attorney’;

Engineverb

To assault with an engine.

‘To engine and batter our walls.’;

Cunningadjective

showing inventiveness and skill;

‘a clever gadget’; ‘the cunning maneuvers leading to his success’; ‘an ingenious solution to the problem’;

Engineverb

To equip with an engine; - said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

Engineverb

Pronounced, in this sense, .) To rack; to torture.

Enginenoun

motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work

Enginenoun

something used to achieve a purpose;

‘an engine of change’;

Enginenoun

a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks

Enginenoun

a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion

‘engine failure’; ‘the roar of a car engine’;

Enginenoun

a thing that is the agent or instrument of a particular process

‘exports used to be the engine of growth’;

Enginenoun

a locomotive.

Enginenoun

a fire engine.

Enginenoun

a mechanical device or instrument, especially one used in warfare

‘a siege engine’;

Engine

An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy. Heat engines convert heat into work via various thermodynamic processes.