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.