💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Engine block"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| blocknoun | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance. |
| cylinder blocknoun | a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine |
| long blocknoun | (automotive) An engine subassembly that consists of the assembled short block, plus the crankshaft, cylinder head, camshaft (usually), and valve train. |
| cylindernoun | Any object in the form of a circular cylinder. |
| piston enginenoun | Any of several types of engine having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons, in which a crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down within cylinders; many internal combustion engines and many steam engines have such a mechanism. |
| pistonnoun | (mechanics) A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump) |
| enginenoun | The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion. |
| beam enginenoun | A kind of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod. |
| internal combustion enginenoun | A heat engine in which intermittent or the continuous burning of a fuel takes place inside a combustion chamber; the resulting pressurized gas acts directly on the engine to do useful work, such as a piston engine, gas turbine, jet engine or rocket. |
| engine mountnoun | Part of a motor vehicle that connects the engine to the vehicle frame. |
| reciprocating enginenoun | Synonym of piston engine. |
| side valvenoun | (automotive) A type of valve in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder block beside the piston. The cylinder head is then a simple dome extending across the valves and piston. |
| engine displacementnoun | The total volume of air/fuel mixture an engine can draw in during one complete engine cycle. |
| crate motornoun | (automotive) Synonym of crate engine: An assembled, new fresh motor, shipped from the builder. |
| atmospheric enginenoun | A kind of steam engine in which the steam is admitted only to the underside of the piston. |
| compound enginenoun | A condensing engine in which the mechanical action of the steam begins in one cylinder and ends in a larger cylinder. |
| camshaftnoun | A shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves. |
| motor oilnoun | Oil for lubricating an internal-combustion engine. |
| motor mountnoun | Synonym of engine mount (“part that connects a vehicle engine to the frame”). |
| internal-combustion enginenoun | Alternative form of internal combustion engine. [A piston or a rotary heat engine directly powered by the products of intermittent combustion of a fuel.] |
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