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单词 enginery
释义 en·gine·ry
\ˈenjə̇nrē, -ri\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: engine (I) + -ery, -ry
1. obsolete : the art of constructing or managing engines, especially military engines
2.
 a. : instruments of war
 b. : machines, tools, and mechanical devices (as of a plant or an industry or for the carrying out of a process)
  < the complex enginery of a modern refining plant >
 broadly : plant 3a
  < the physical elements of this marvelous enginery for multiplying man's powers and possibilities are three — tracks, trains, locomotive power — R.S.Henry >
 c. : things that underlie and form a basis for the functioning of something : machinery 4
  < Keats was beginning … to bring forward the vast enginery of his mind to attack the riddle of life in its deeper aspects, when death cut him short — G.M.Trevelyan >
  < the subtler and cruder enginery of threat — H.A.Overstreet >
  < a ponderous enginery of statistics, graphs, and mathematical devices >
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