noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car door/engine/key etc
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She left the car engine running.
cranking...engine
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Try cranking the engine .
diesel engine
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a 1.9 litre diesel engine
engine compartment
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engine compartment
fire engine
four-stroke engine
get the car/engine etc started
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He couldn’t get his motorbike started.
inboard motor/engine
internal combustion engine
jet engine
keep the engine running
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You shouldn’t keep the engine running when the car is standing still.
search engine
steam engine/train/hammer etc (= an engine etc that works by steam power )
traffic/aircraft/engine etc noise
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It was peaceful there, with no traffic noise at all.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
diesel
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It's gone for a big six-cylinder, turbocharged 2. litre diesel engine under the bonnet.
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Although over the moon with it generally, I am disappointed with the lack of power in the naturally aspirated diesel engine .
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An example is Volvo Penta, a large producer of diesel engines for marine purposes.
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Because the diesel engine uses so much less fuel it releases substantially less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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The argument also takes no account of the extra oil-change services that diesel engines require.
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There are diesel engines from Perkins which will fit - these are the 4.203 and 4.236 with suitable adaptors.
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The latter are modified diesel engines using a short squirt of conventional fuel to encourage injected gas to burn.
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The vehicles are modified Daimler Benz buses, powered by diesel engines or by overhead electric cables.
internal
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The computer chip was a huge breakthrough, greater than the lightbulb, telephone, or internal combustion engine .
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First and most radical, a new means of propulsion other than the internal combustion engine might be considered.
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Secondly, new fuels for the internal combustion engine which do not involve the depletion of vital and limited energy resources.
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A combination of mass production and the internal combustion engine was responsible for the Allied victory.
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Both have been accelerated since the war by the widespread application of the internal combustion engine .
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A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
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The internal combustion engine created a new mobility, for people and goods alike.
main
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The force of the main engines causes the top of the shuttle to tip by 1-2 metres.
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An independent company, that is, with its two main engines of growth showing definite signs of maturity.
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The main gasoline engine can be turned and its valve gear operates.
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Try the main search engines and study their instruction.
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There will be 19 main engines for the shuttle - each orbiter carries three, the rest are spares.
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The main engines and fuel pumps are removed and sent for refurbishment.
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Ball argues that the main engine in the shaping of higher education should be informed student demand, not manpower planning.
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This would give the stage an upward acceleration, settling the liquid before the pumps cut in at main engine ignition.
new
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Would such an engine fit in the new car's engine bay?
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Two days later, with the new engine in place, Tim and Chuck found a crack in one of the cylinders!
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Developing a new engine takes several years and costs $ 1. 5 billion or more.
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At least five new engines and one ladder truck are needed per year for the subsequent three years, they said.
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A new four-channel engine immobiliser system has been developed and added to the range.
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The car, with modified suspension and a new engine , will display Stansted Airport stickers this season.
powerful
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It has one of the most powerful engines of its type in the world.
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There were no mechanisms aboard the bell, but the ship herself had powerful engines .
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The driver is experienced, the car is powerful , the engine is tuned, but the clutch will not engage.
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Most other members of the family have more powerful engines .
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Its long black bonnet gleamed in the light of the passing street-lamps, and its powerful engine echoed through empty streets.
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Then, with a single powerful engine burn, the spacecraft can decelerate to a soft landing on the lunar surface.
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Certainly few would see the engineering industry as a powerful engine of future economic growth.
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The Huey, on the other hand, with its powerful , light-weight engine , had power to spare.
small
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This might not seem small in petrol engine terms but for a diesel it is quite dinky.
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It was placed in an eccentric, high-inclination orbit around Venus by the firing of a small rocket engine .
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A wheelbarrow mounted version can be switched between different small engines in a farm or industrial plant.
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Twowheel drivers with fabric upholstery and the smaller engine start at $ 28, 000.
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But instead of scooting, the rider stands on two side plates, while a small petrol engine drives the rear wheel.
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Available only with the smaller engine , 500 are being produced at a cost of £16,000 apiece.
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This powered a number of small engines with gleaming copper coils.
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The winding drum is powered by a small steam engine , operating through a worm-wheel and gear.
steam
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Iron stoves, buttons, ships, shirts, hairbrushes, paint, steam engines , books.
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The steam engine is an unthinkable contraption without the domesticating loop of the revolving governor.
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The immense surrogate slave power released by the steam engine ushered in the Industrial Revolution.
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Gritty steam engines , not teeny chips, hauled the world into the information age.
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Only then, typically, would it become part of a steam engine , gearbox, or pump.
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James Watt, who is credited with inventing the steam engine , did not.
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If one man invented a steam engine and another a railway, then the two could come together.
■ NOUN
car
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The car engine continued to run despite my having the ignition key in my pocket!
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He hears a car engine start.
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Either the car engine is on or it is not.
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And slowly, not two or three thousand revolutions per minute like your car engine , but maybe two hundred.
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There you will meet a tall, rugged stranger taking his car engine to bits with no hope of reassembling it.
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From dawn in the street, the voices of kids, car engines and cyclo bells still floated up.
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A few minutes later she heard the rich throb of a car engine in the drive below.
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As she lay there, barely conscious, she heard the sound of a car engine approaching.
combustion
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But even though it is still dark, I hear a combustion engine in the woods across the valley.
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First and most radical, a new means of propulsion other than the internal combustion engine might be considered.
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The computer chip was a huge breakthrough, greater than the lightbulb, telephone, or internal combustion engine .
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Secondly, new fuels for the internal combustion engine which do not involve the depletion of vital and limited energy resources.
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A combination of mass production and the internal combustion engine was responsible for the Allied victory.
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Both have been accelerated since the war by the widespread application of the internal combustion engine .
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A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
compartment
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Start off by cleaning down all the oily and greasy bits - the engine compartment , undercarriage and control surface hinges.
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For example, closed circuit television gives the helmsman a view of the engine compartment and of the aft deck of the boat.
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It detonated directly beneath U-494's engine compartment .
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He'd opened the smashed engine compartment , and was pointing to where the battery wasn't.
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Two large side panels, which are removed by undoing two knots, cover each side of the engine compartment .
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The engine compartment is completely wax protected and the whole car has three layers of paint rather than two.
failure
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The cause of engine failure was at length discovered.
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There were two aircraft casualties, a Zero crashed on take-off from the Hiryu and a Kate suffered engine failure .
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An investigation into the crash found no evidence of engine failure - the problem was loss of power.
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Pilots normally feather propellers for two reasons: because of engine failure or a racing propeller.
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This means a catastrophic engine failure could send a fragment into the wing and ignite the fuel vapour.
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Although the cause of the accident remained under investigation, eyewitnesses said the plane apparently suffered engine failure .
fire
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Somewhere, the bell of a fire engine clanged and men's voices called urgently.
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Look, there goes a fire engine .
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It all came to a head the day a fire engine couldn't get down the High Street for parked cars.
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One night she heard an ambulance approach the hospital and mistook it for a fire engine .
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He saw that one fire engine got through okay but the second a slight problem in two places.
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But it is all confusion.... Fire engines have been sent for, to put out the fire.
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There were police cars, fire engines , helicopters - oh yeah, and a naked woman.
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Daniel Ray, 25, dropped his lunch and jumped aboard a fire engine with the rest of his crew.
jet
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It has been used successfully, for example in the design of jet engines .
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In fact the improvement statistics in our jet engine shops were even more remarkable.
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A jet engine can take up to six seconds to spool up.
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Besides the black boxes, this category includes the jet engines , the pilot escape system, and so on.
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When a resultant is radial, the body can take off, like a rocket or a jet engine .
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Cobalt is important in the jet engines of aeroplanes because it makes turbine blades resist high temperatures.
noise
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He noticed the change of pitch in the engine noise and the slight tilt of the aircraft as it began its descent.
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I yelled over the engine noise of the old Dodge van.
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Richmann tensed as the approaching engine noise reached a peak.
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For perhaps half a minute we strained to identify the source of the engine noise .
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This was done and almost immediately we noticed increased engine noise .
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The engine noise rose, the chocks were pulled.
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The dark of the tunnel hammered the engine noise back at us, water drumming on the roof above my head.
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If possible, run the engine , checking for excessive exhaust smoke and engine noise .
petrol
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It uses the familiar 1. litre petrol engine , and comes in three or five-door versions.
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This might not seem small in petrol engine terms but for a diesel it is quite dinky.
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Power for the rotary cultivation unit was provided by an air cooled petrol engine mounted on the plough.
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Clios fitted with petrol engines do not require their first service until 6,000 miles.
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But instead of scooting, the rider stands on two side plates, while a small petrol engine drives the rear wheel.
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I own a 109 Safari and it is ex-military with the two and a quarter petrol engine .
room
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Why the door to the engine room was open and undamaged.
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Two merchant seamen in the engine room were killed immediately and a third died later on a lifeboat.
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Half way up the steps there's a standing wall, the remains of an engine room .
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There are sailors sleeping next to the engine room of ships and astronauts sleeping in weightlessness.
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Down below in the engine room it would be warm.
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He swore he could get me into the engine room .
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It was a kind of artistic engine room , except that it was silent.
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Local media reported that when firemen entered the engine room , they found bodies piled on top of each other.
running
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Keeping the engine running , I waited.
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A big saloon car was parked outside the other door with its engine running .
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Leaving the engine running , he went and leaned on the railings.
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He said it was accidentally gassed when he left his car engine running .
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The man who got out of it left the headlights full on and the engine running .
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Leaving the engine running , he then returned to the house to collect his executive briefcase and other relevant impedimenta.
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Outside, some one found the press coach, deserted and with the engine running .
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The animal had been in the garage while he was working on the car with the engine running .
search
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Earlier AltaVista, the search engine portal, reported losses of $ 307m on revenues of $ 98m in the second quarter.
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McKinley and Excite currently command two of the five most prominent spots for search engines on the Netscape browser home page.
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Angular momentum is the momentum associated with rotational motion. Search engines are by no means infallible.
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Ski Central is fast and easy to use, and its sophisticated search engine provides links to corresponding areas within the site.
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Each search engine has its own quirks to lean-otherwise you'il waste a lot of time weeding through poor results.
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In addition, the site provides access to hundreds of specialty search engines , organized by category.
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If you're going to add a Web search engine to your site, this is a lot easier.
trouble
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As the Sea King hovered in gale force winds, alarms warned of engine trouble .
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For the record their performance was marred by engine trouble , but simply taking part was more significant than the result.
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Outside Peterborough we ran into engine trouble and lost nearly two hours.
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The boat belonging to Arnold Spence, the fisherman for whom he worked, had developed engine trouble .
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Gehlbach, flying the R-2 had engine trouble in the Bendix, losing oil, and finishing second.
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He had a story of engine trouble to explain his own unauthorised landing, and we had to let him go.
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J.B. Holgate had suffered engine trouble and been forced to return.
■ VERB
build
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It was John Wilkinson who first enabled Watt to build engines with large accurately-bored cylinders.
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Bill and I built that engine .
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Lincoln built 6500 Liberty engines and employed 6000 people by the end of the war.
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Now they subcontract out about half of their functions, including the rather important job of building engines .
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Ironically, Cadillac also started building the same engines soon after Leland started Lincoln.
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Otto built a special racing engine in 1901 that weighed a thousand pounds and produced forty horsepower.
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At a drop zone there she met Steve, a tall, outgoing mechanical engineer who built jet engines .
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Toyota is to build diesel engines in Britain.
cut
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Grant cuts the engine right back to idle.
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Clayt braked hard, pulled off and cut the engine .
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He parked outside the tall façade of the house, cut the engine .
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It drew level, then cut back its engine , and came wallowing close alongside.
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The only problem which cured itself was a horn that tended to cut the engine during the early life of the car.
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The big patrol boat cut its engines as it drew level, and the grey-painted military hull sank down into the water.
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Those often cut their engines and drift out of control off Muckle Flugga, possibly to save fuel.
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They cut the engine to allow the animals to pass undisturbed.
drive
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The accountant strolled round to the driver's side, got in, revved up the engine and drove the champion home.
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Koju and the uniform revved the engine and drove belligerently in front of us.
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It is the engine that drives the economy.
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Then I started the engine and drove back to where I had seen the Pan-Am Norte sign.
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Gebrec shrugged, climbed aboard, started the engine and drove out of the yard.
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She started up the engine and drove swiftly away.
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But instead of scooting, the rider stands on two side plates, while a small petrol engine drives the rear wheel.
fit
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Included in the 707/300 series was the 707/400 series fitted with Rolls Royce engines .
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Clios fitted with petrol engines do not require their first service until 6,000 miles.
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The later breathing system could have been fitted or the engine fitted to a later vehicle.
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A three-bladed test prop is fitted to each engine for its assessment runs.
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Below: As technology improved there were various attempts to fit engines in horse drawn narrow boats.
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If Ducati does fit the new engine to the 996, it could simultaneously make other performance-boosting changes.
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Volkswagen has fitted bigger engines to compensate for the extra weight of the stronger and safer structure of the latest version.
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Is it possible to fit a diesel engine and an auto gearbox without being too expensive?
hear
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People living near the crash scene paid no attention when they heard the engine of the aircraft cut out in mid-air.
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He hears a car engine start.
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He was driving away from me grounds of Hauser's estate when he heard a different engine sound.
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But even though it is still dark, I hear a combustion engine in the woods across the valley.
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I hear them turn the engine on.
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He could hear engines gunning, hammers ringing, voices shouting back and forth.
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He said he heard a car engine racing behind him and turned round to see headlights.
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Piercing, piercing whistling rasping through teeth, could easily be heard over engine .
rev
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The accountant strolled round to the driver's side, got in, revved up the engine and drove the champion home.
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Aunt Belle revved the engine a few more times then shut it off.
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And the pirate, if that is what he was, revved up his engines and began to turn away.
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At noon each boat revs its engine , makes a half-circle and begins to feed the river its net.
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He waited until Miguel was back in his car and revved the engine .
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Arabella drove through the archway, revving the engine far too high, as she always did in the lower gears.
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Greene stood a few yards away, revving his engine .
run
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If possible, run the engine , checking for excessive exhaust smoke and engine noise.
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After running the engine for a few miles, the gauge is up to the red.
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Outside Peterborough we ran into engine trouble and lost nearly two hours.
start
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To avoid this and also to facilitate starting , engines are set to run about fifteen percent rich on the ground.
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He started up the engine , felt the boat rise and take to the water.
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She turned back, and only then remembered that some one had started the engines .
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He started the engine again and they climbed for several hundred yards without lights.
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Usually, all one gets is the chance to start up the engine for a minute or so on a viewing day.
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Then the driver started the engine , and off they went.
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Then I started the engine and drove back to where I had seen the Pan-Am Norte sign.
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Sherman started the engine up again.
switch
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He decided to wait, watching as the driver switched off the engine and slid from behind the wheel.
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Mr Phipps approached the car and switched the engine off.
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He parked close to where the land sloped downwards to a narrow pebble beach, and switched the engine off.
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The pilots were instructed simply to switch off their engines upon landing as taxi-ing the aircraft would be impossible.
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The outside air temperature was above minimum, but I switched on the engine anti-ice anyway, just to be sure.
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Jim switched his engine off and stretched his arms.
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A wheelbarrow mounted version can be switched between different small engines in a farm or industrial plant.
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Two miles out of town he pulled into a shallow ditch and switched the engine off.
turn
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He turned the engine of the lawnmower off and waved back.
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Clayt turned the engine over and felt for the accelerator with his toe and backed into the Harpswell Road.
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I hear them turn the engine on.
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He turned the engine over, the warm rumble of his Baby rejuvenating him.
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THIRTY-ONE Harry turned off the car engine and wound down the window.
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Janie turned off the engine and closed the doors.
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He turned on the engine with a swift, disgusted motion.
use
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What happens if I use unleaded in my engine ?
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If you use unleaded in an engine not designed for it then premature failure of the exhaust valve seats will result.
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If I use unleaded will my engine be less powerful?
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You have obviously used an automatic engine .
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When swapping engines , use the clutch assembly which is compatible with the gearbox you are using.
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This was done by using a huge oil engine as a generator.
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Read me Search engines Use a search engine when you're looking for specific mention of something on a Web page.
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He could have pushed the throttle forwards and avoided the accident by using the engine .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
2.6/3.5 etc litre engine
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a diesel engine
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a jet engine
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Every time I try to start the engine , there's a strange knocking sound.
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For next year, the company will offer three cars with turbocharged diesel engines in the United States.
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She left the car in the drive with the engine still running.
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Some residents fear the crops would attract birds that might be sucked into jet engines.
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The car's engine tends to be noisy as it builds to highway speeds.
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The SVT is available only with a six-cylinder engine .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A piston engine reacts immediately to power, just like a car.
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He turned on the engine with a swift, disgusted motion.
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I pressed the starter and the engine caught first time.
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I would love to test the same rig with a turbocharged diesel engine .
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Initially the engine refused to start for my grim, preoccupied father.
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Some of their multi-cylinder motor cycle engines have pistons little bigger than thimbles.
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The construction equipment giant has been a customer since the early Seventies, and has taken delivery of 150,000 engines to date.
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The inference engine is generic, and it handles the logistics of a consultation.