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单词 engined
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enginedadj.

Brit. /ˈɛn(d)ʒ(ᵻ)nd/, U.S. /ˈɛndʒənd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: engine n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: < engine n. + -ed suffix2.
As the second element in parasynthetic compounds.
1. Now chiefly of an aeroplane: having the specified number of engines. For more common compounds, as single-, three-, twin-engined, etc., see the first element.
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1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 258 Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined.
1851 Month Sept. 238 Monster double-engined trains, with twenty or thirty well-packed carriages.
1919 Aircraft Year Bk. (Manufacturers Aircraft Assoc.) 44 The general idea among the outside public seemed sometimes to be that the only machine fit for a commercial purpose is the big, many-engined machine.
1969 Life 25 Apr. 43 The use of the eight-engined B-52 bombers as a close-support, tactical weapon was Westmoreland's innovation.
1983 T. Hoyle Last Gasp i. 19 The four-engined ski-shod C-130 landed the next afternoon right on schedule.
2002 G. Mccafferty They had no Choice vii. 52 The Whitleys were eventually replaced by four-engined Halifax aircraft.
2. Having engines of the specified kind. For more common compounds, as diesel-, petrol-, turbine-engined, etc., see the first element.
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1853 O. Wenckstern tr. M. Schlesinger Saunterings in & about London ii. i. 135 The steamers were of a lilliputian kind—undergrown, low-funnelled, small-engined and paddle-wheeled.
1894 Trans. Federated Inst. Mining Engineers 6 48 (title) Corliss-engined fan at Seghill colliery.
1946 J. W. Campbell in Astounding Sci. Fiction Nov. 5/2 Such atomic-engined planes would have to operate from special airports; once a drone atomic plane had taken off, it would be weeks before the field would have lost the induced radioactivity sufficiently to permit human approach.
1970 Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 13 Their airlines are trying to standardise on American-engined planes.
1984 Punch 31 Oct. 47/1 TVR's glass-fibre roadster..now has even more oomph than the Vitesse-engined 350i I recently reviewed.
2005 Evo June 100/3 Much like the earlier 5.7-litre model, the new 6-litre LS2-engined VXR is big and hefty but friendly to drive.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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