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v-engine

/vee-en-juhn/US // ˈviˌɛn dʒən //

V-Engine

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an internal-combustion engine having two opposed banks of cylinders inclined so that they form a V-shaped angle.

Examples

  • The jet engine instantly brought two advances over propellers: it doubled the speed and it was far more reliable.

  • The Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education.

  • An F-35 was destroyed on takeoff earlier in the year when a design flaw in its Pratt & Whitney F135 engine sparked a fire.

  • Texas has also started to become an engine of economic growth.

  • Clearly, the least cool people are the most in-demand: the rich folks who power the Art Basel engine.

  • U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.

  • It was only the engine drawing the train of cars up to the station to take the passengers away.

  • “Mon pauvre petit, you are hungry,” said Aristide, carrying it to the car racked by the clattering engine.

  • Adjoining the engine-house on the other side, is the stable, where five splendid horses are kept.

  • The huge engine, the wonderful carriages, the imposing guard, the busy porters and the bustling station.