Cunning vs. Engine — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cunning and Engine
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Cunning
Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.
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.
Cunning
Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
Engine
A machine with moving parts that converts power into motion
Engine failure
The roar of a car engine
Cunning
Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute
A cunning pet.
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Engine
A locomotive.
Cunning
Skill in deception; guile.
Engine
A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion.
Cunning
Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity.
Engine
Such a machine distinguished from an electric, spring-driven, or hydraulic motor by its use of a fuel.
Cunning
Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
Engine
A mechanical appliance, instrument, or tool
Engines of war.
Cunning
(obsolete) Skillful, artful.
Engine
An agent, instrument, or means of accomplishment.
Cunning
(obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
Cunning work
Engine
A locomotive.
Cunning
Cute, appealing.
Engine
A fire engine.
Cunning
Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
Engine
(Computers) A search engine.
Cunning
Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.
Engine
To equip with an engine or engines.
Cunning
The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
Engine
A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
Cunning
The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
The cunning of the fox or hare
Engine
A tool; a utensil or implement.
Cunning
(obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).
Engine
A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
Cunning
Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
"Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and whiteNature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
Esau was a cunning hunter.
Engine
A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
Cunning
Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
Over them Arachne high did lift
Engine
The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
Cunning
Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.
Engine
A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.
Cunning
Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
Engine
(computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
A graphics engine
A physics engine
Cunning
Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
Let my right hand forget her cunning.
A carpenter's desertStands more in cunning than in power.
Engine
(obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
Cunning
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.
Engine
(obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
Cunning
Shrewdness in deception;
As cunning as a fox
Engine
(obsolete) Natural talent; genius.
Cunning
Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Engine
Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
Cunning
Drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
Engine
To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
Cunning
Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness;
A cute kid with pigtails
A cute little apartment
Cunning kittens
A cunning baby
Engine
To assault with an engine.
Cunning
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
Engine
To contrive; to put into action.
Cunning
Showing inventiveness and skill;
A clever gadget
The cunning maneuvers leading to his success
An ingenious solution to the problem
Engine
To rack; to torture.
Engine
Natural capacity; ability; skill.
A man hath sapiences three,Memory, engine, and intellect also.
Engine
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.
Engine
Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture.
Engine
A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.
Engine
To assault with an engine.
To engine and batter our walls.
Engine
To equip with an engine; - said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
Engine
Pronounced, in this sense, .) To rack; to torture.
Engine
Motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
Engine
Something used to achieve a purpose;
An engine of change
Engine
A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
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