Engine and Mill

Engine

Engine noun - A device that changes energy into mechanical motion.

Usage example: a car with a 200-horsepower engine

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Mill and engine are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mill" instead a noun "Engine".

Nearby Words: engineer, enginery

Mill noun - A building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods.

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Engine and mill are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Engine" instead a noun "Mill".

Nearby Words: milled, milling, miller, millet, millboard

complete	complete engine	complete mill
actual	actual engine	actual mill
real	real engine	real mill
last	last engine	last mill
Other adjectives: giant, magical.

In other words, they didn't squeeze as much power out of an engine of any given size as possible, they just built the mill big enough to produce that amount of power under East Siberian conditions, an undetermined time after its last shop visit.

Source: Enormous Engine
It's cramped, slow and can't take off from anywhere with an atmosphere, but replacement engine parts can be churned out with any half-decent CNC mill and it runs quite happily on 95% kerosene and 5% Avgas.

Source: Fan Fic / The Next Frontier

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